Caribou Coffee (corporate headquarters in Minneapolis) about a month and a half ago opened a franchise on the corner of Packard and East Stadium, a somewhat curious place for a coffee house except for the fact that...
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AirBeagleLost in 2005
There were some remarkable people who left us in 2005: ‘When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit that loses.’ —Shirley Chisholm, who died 1-Jan-05 ‘“We went through the...
Lost in '05: Hunter S. Thompson
The year that was: « Goodbye Hunter S. Thompson »: ‘‘Politics is the art of controlling your environment.’ That is one of the key things I learned in these years, and I learned it...
Reg Dwight Gets Hitched
High-profile celebrity civil commitment ceremony: check. Quaint British setting (the same location as Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles’ ceremony in April): check. Crowds of paparazzi: check. Almost as many...
Another Ann Arbor Winter
Winter has settled in with a vengeance and the solstice isn’t even until tomorrow (at 1.30pm, to be exact). The storms began well before Thanksgiving and there have been at least three or four of them since then...
Breaking the Quiet
It’s been a long month ….. working on various projects at the library, including a set of pages about the 2005 election cycle, fighting asthma, hibernating with the onset of what was an earlier onslaught of...
Asi es Nuevo Mexico
Stuff like « this » makes me wonder if my desire to return to my home state is really all that wise of an idea: ‘An essay contest at a New Mexico high school asks students to explain why...
Our World Tonight: Cast of Characters
« Meet George W. Bush »; he can’t catch a break, even from « an old comic book character ». Now, « meet Deborah Davis ». And « meet Al...
Rational Revolution
Joining my rather long blogroll is a fascinating read: « Rational Revolution ». Highly recommended. Check it out.
He Lied, People Died
“How amazing is it that we live in an empire that impeaches presidents over legal consensual sex acts but not over illegal wars which kill hundreds of thousands of people?” Just keep piling up...
Thank You and Good Night
“… it’s impeachment time and then let’s replace the dipsticks with a bipartisan McCain and Murtha combination, acknowledging the even division in the electorate.” Everybody needs to take...
Courage and Conviction vs. Cowardice and Coercion
“Rabbi Yoffie! You’re my new hero!” We need more courageous heroes like « Rabbi Eric Yoffie » to speak more truth to power: ‘The leader of the largest branch of American...
Paradox? Or Hypocrisy?
“Jesus, save us from your followers!” I’ve been meaning to blog this for weeks, to read it into the record, so to speak. But what with grad school hell, I just haven’t had time. I’ve long...
The First Snow of the Season
Yesterday was the first snow of the season ….. just a few flakes, but there was a definite dusting on the ground this morning, and the temps are unmistakably wintry. I guess Indian summer is officially over.
In the Rain
I love this! ‘… I thought he sought the privacy of rain, the one time no one was likely to be out and he was left to the intimacy of drops touching every leaf and tree in the woods and the easy muttering of...
Mike Cox: Republican Hypocrite
Before I forget, I didn’t fail to notice that the « Fascist Michigan attorney general who is trying to strip faithful Michigan couples of all their health insurance is himself an adulterer »:...
Just Married
Thank you, Canada! And thank you Neil Hodgins and all our wonderful friends!
Pics are up: « The Wedding »
« The Reception »
Just Married
Thank you, Canada! And thank you Neil Hodgins and all our wonderful friends!
Pics are up: « The Wedding »
« The Reception »
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Commenting is broken at the moment. Something in the CSS of the new skin. Will be back later today.
Is It June Yet?
Grad school is high stress and keeping me busier than a one-armed paper-hanging porcupine in a balloon factory. It’ll be over soon, thank god. Things I’ve learned: Don’t question the pedagogy. Just...
Civil Liberties Objections are Eccentric
“The fact that government is secretly tracking my life and sharing that information with private corporations in a completely unaccountable way shows me that America has crossed over into a fascist twilight of...
Cold Weather
Cold is finally here. Temps have been frigid the past several days, with highs not hitting 50 and lows easily dipping down near freezing. The past couple of days have even necessitated gloves and a parka. A few people...
Straw Breaking the Camel’s Back
Dear UM Undergraduates, I’ve accepted that it’s part of the social landscape now for you to walk into a wing of a library that is supposed to be used for study and instead use it as an open-air forum for...
Department of …
From our « Clueless Department »: ‘Delta Air Lines Inc. will likely ask its pilots union to extend an agreement to recall retired pilots to prevent staffing shortages as it ambitiously...
Life in the Empire
“These weren’t the works of psychopaths — they were people fighting against something intolerable that many of us know is there, but hasn’t been named yet.” « The Kinder, Gentler...
Pat Tillman, Hero
“As with most of the Mayberry Machiavellians’ schemes, this is yet another one that is coming unraveled.” Great national hero and former darling of the fascists, Pat Tillman, has, gasp the horror, been...
Wrong Again
It’s been back up in the mid-80s with high dewpoints for the past several days, just proving once again that trying to predict weather in Michigan is (especially if you’re a rank amateur, like me) a...
Autumn Is Here
Today did, in all seriousness, feel for the first time like autumn. It didn’t really get much above 60 degrees all day (it’s supposed to dip down to 36 tonight), and there was that unmistakable bite in the...
Overheard Outside the School of Social Work
“It’s just like wintertime out here today!”
“I know, isn’t it horrible?”
And so the next five or six months of kvetching begins …..
Super! Sonic!
“I wanna go supersonic before I die and time’s a-wastin’!” Finally, « some visionary thinking », which has been in major short supply here in the 21st century: ‘Barely...
Now Get Your Filthy Hands Off Our Benefits!
Dear Fascist Michigan Voters-For-Prop-2: « Screw. You. »: ‘A Michigan judge ruled on Tuesday that a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage does not prevent the state from offering...
Now Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Benefits!
Dear Fascist Michigan Voters-For-Prop-2: « Screw. You. »: ‘A Michigan judge ruled on Tuesday that a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage does not prevent the state from offering...
New Orleans is Not the Only Thing That Sank to a New Low
« Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl = Despicable Low Lifes »: ‘Federal troops aren’t the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old...
'On Your Watch …'
« Bill Maher has a message for the Failed Boy Emperor »: ‘You’ve performed so poorly I’m surprised that you haven’t given yourself a medal. You’re a catastrophe that...
No Comment Needed From Me
‘I’ll send my sons if he sends his daughters. Put those two drunk bitches on a plane and let them go fight. At least I know my sons would be getting some on the way.’ —Comedian Damon Wayans...
'From slave ships to the Superdome was not that big a journey.'
I think Cornel West « perfectly sums up the state of the Empire »: ‘What we saw unfold in the days after the hurricane was the most naked manifestation of conservative social policy towards...
City Beneath the Sea
I’m melancholy tonight, listening to « Harry Connick Jr.‘s » Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, Basin Street Blues and, especially, City...
Which Fascist is More Outrageous – Denny Hastert or the Waterbury Fascist-American?
On top of all the shameful and outrageous things we’ve seen this week, comes « this »: ‘House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t...
Approval from Jerry Falwell
Gosh. I feel so … honored. « Jerry Falwell now approves of me getting my master’s in elementary education », as long, of course, as I don’t ‘recruit’ the little...
Finally Admitting What the Rest of Us Have Known for Three Years
« Oops! Our Bad. »: ‘The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less...
