According to a new study released by the « Bay Area Center for Voting Research », Ann Arbor is the 27th most liberal city in the country (Detroit is 1st, San Francisco 9th, Flint 10th, New York 21st).
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AirBeagleBirds of Summer
Saw a bird hopping around on the grass on my way to the bus stop Tuesday morning that I couldn’t identify (nothing new there, I still can’t identify most birds) — gray and brown tail feathers in...
Price of Tea
Recently the price of tea went up from $1.59 to $2.12 at my favorite pitstop, Cafe Ambrosia. Seeing as how the price hadn’t been hiked in 2 years, they were entitled to charge a little more. Nonetheless...
Summer Already Winding Down
Looks like the undergrads are starting to stream back into town … a sure sign summer is coming to an end after the zenith (if you can term it that) of Art Fair. No tidal wave yet — I walked home from campus...
Life in Jebby Land
« Just another day in Florida »: ‘A mobile home belonging to a gay couple was torched and an offensive epithet was spray-painted on the front steps, authorities said. Paul Day, 25, and...
Tehran: The Next Hiroshima
Those of you who voted for the Fascists in the last election need to understand that a vote for Bush was a vote for « this »: ‘In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and...
'A Pervasive Culture of Revenge AND Secrecy'
As always, it’s smell-a-rat time; « what are the Mayberry Machiavellis trying to hide THIS time? »; ‘Citing privacy and precedent, the Bush administration indicated Sunday it does not...
We Are Back
Asquared AirBeagle is back … now powered by WordPress, which does some truly awesome things, such as the weather report you see in the sidebar and the new ‘Subscribe to Comments’ feature, which allows...
Sabre Rattling
While we’re all tied up in knots over suicidal nuts with explosives who kill 50 people at a time, « somebody else is talking about nuking millions of Americans »: ‘China is willing to...
70s Has-Been, Corvette, Mobile Home, Pit Bulls, Drugs. Yeah.
It simply doesn’t get any more clichéd than « this »: ‘Victor Edward Willis, the original policeman and lead singer from the Village People, had a chance to find out firsthand this...
Up and Running
I imported the old entries successfully from TextPattern, but I’ve lost a few trackbacks and comments. If yours was one of them, I do apologize. And I’m working on the link thing.
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Making a Switch
Textpattern is … causing me some frustrations lately. So I’m switching to « WordPress ». Things will be very higgledy-piggledy for a little while. Thanks for bearing with me. Links will...
We Are All Londoners
Just as on 11-Marzo, we were all Madrileños and on 11-September we were all New Yorkers, as of 7-July we are all « Londoners ». ‘Once the shock had settled, I started to feel immense...
The Intelligently Designed Four
So. « Ayn Clouter writes movie script treatments ». Who knew? ‘What is really needed to refresh the medium is to bring in, not “politically correct” references to current society...
Yep, Hail in July
Yep, there was hail, albeit briefly. That thunderstorm we had this evening around 5.00 lasted about 45 minutes or so and was quite a fierce one. I stood in the entryway of Hatcher for about ten minutes and the rain...
14 Geddes – East Stadium
The past couple of weeks I’ve been trying out a different bus route home — the 14, which runs from Blake Transit Center to Pioneer High by what is probably the most circuitous and esoteric route imaginable...
Fourth of July Weekend
The Fourth was relatively quiet until about an hour or so ago, when some neighbors started off a round of fireworks (I’ll never understand what makes people with half a brain think that it’s okay to light...
Earth-Shaking
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected...
Whine, Whine, Whine
Today’s posts are simply going to be whining sessions. Forgive me, but this is all the therapy I can get while I’m sitting in class and keep my cool. My fatigue level is high suddenly. Nauseated. Fatigued...
State of Mind
I’m trying to relax. I’m trying to breathe. I’m trying not to lose it. But it’s hard. Nausea is increasing this morning. The silly little games we do increase my problem. I understand the...
A Hypothesis
Not as unpleasant, though, as that afternoon a week or so after I’d first moved here and got lost walking down Madison trying to find the main branch of the Ann Arbor District Library. Which tells me that either...
Out of Cruise Control
« Truly hilarious ». ‘Did you guys catch Tom Cruise on the Today Show this morning? I did. It was va-gynius. Watching Tom Cruise blabber on and on about the ills of medicine was mesmerizing...
Hot, Hot, Hot
The temps are supposed to be 14 degrees above normal here later today … yikes. The only possible relief may be a few scattered thunderstorms during the afternoon. It won’t get below 80, apparently, until...
Never Satisfied
I was eating breakfast in Frank’s Diner this morning and overheard one of the customers complaining about the weather to the waitress. She said, “It’s days like these when I ask myself...
Scratch What I Said Last Week
Summer is here in a big way this week, despite the storm interlude on Tuesday. The past few days have been hot and almost cloudless, and the humidity is starting to creep upward. The weather has not been all that...
Summer Storm
On my way home Tuesday night, a brief but intense deluge came down from the sky—a ripping thunderstorm on the first day of summer. I was unprepared, having forgotten to check the National Weather Service on the...
How the Emperor Supports His Troops
« This » is how the Empire supports the troops these days apparently: ‘John Tod of Mesa had been prepared to face Father’s Day worrying about his son’s pending date with the war...
Summer Limping, Not Hammering
Well, my words about the hammer of summer weren’t quite on target. The past week has seen a few days of temps in the high 70s, but mostly it’s been overcast, even drizzly and thunderstormy some days, with...
Next Up: They Dig Up the Body and Re-Enact the Resurrection
Undaunted by the « autopsy », Terri ‘Schiavo’s brain damage “was irreversible … no amount of treatment or rehabilitation would have reversed” it, said Jon R...
Long Time No See
Gosh, it’s been hot. So how’s everybody been? We’re still here, just a bit overwhelmed. I start grad school in two weeks and the allergy assault on Frank continues unabated. The beagle is on a new diet...
Rottenness
Oh, that « Gore Vidal », rehashing old, long-forgotten battles: ‘Asked to predict who would win in ‘04, I said that, again, Bush would lose, but I was confident that in the four years...
Summer Hammer Coming Down
Today, somehow, seemed appropriately the start of summer (though summer doesn’t officially start for another week and a half). Yesterday, the heat was hot, but it didn’t feel oppressive and exhausting...
Burn Them All!
It’s great how «this list» equates John Dewey, Betty Friedan, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Maynard Keynes, Mao Zedong, and Adolf Hitler. Such heartwarming catholicity is a rare find these days. Why...
On Memorial Day
On Memorial Day, I always think back to 1989, when as a newspaper reporter, I was privileged to meet a great group of heroes: Memory Of WWII Still Vivid For Vets (Part I of the Wake Island Story) ‘Considering the...
Holding Down the Home Front
Wives Cope With Husband’s Memories (Part II of the Wake Island Story) By Steve Pollock The Duncan (OK) Banner Sunday, August 13, 1989 MARLOW – It all came back to them this weekend – fists lashing out...
Speaking Truth to Power in Texas
I love Molly Ivins always and I especially love her today for turning over her column completely to the blazing and brave words spoken in the Texas lege by « Houston Rep. Senfronia Thompson »...
FBI Knew of Koran Desecration in 2002
It doesn’t fit with the cherished fascist myth of the ‘liberal’ media so it’s being ignored in favor of Newsweek bashing, but documents the ACLU obtained show that the FBI knew about...
Weather (As Good a Topic as Any)
May 24 and the weather today alternated between overcast, drizzly, and chilly, with a few moments of interspersed sunlight. It’s been this way all month, except for a few days earlier in the month when summery...
Some Fili Was Busted or Something
In the What the ? Department … Who won? Who lost? « Who knows »? ‘The Senate is to vote Tuesday to end debate on Owen, a Texas Supreme Court justice, clearing the way for her to gain a...
Remembering Kent State
Author Philip Caputo had an interesting interview with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that I caught the other day at lunch. And the NPR website has « an interesting section featuring Caputo’s writing on...
Offensive Air
Here’s something fun: free expression and religion « collide on the Delta Shuttle »: ‘Dear Ignorant Wench … ‘When you walked toward me smiling and stopped in front of my...
Making a Point About Privacy
Back in February, there was an article about millionaire « John Gilmore, who was making a point about privacy » in a world where the Constitution doesn’t apply on airport property: ‘In...
