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  • Seen On Bluesky

    “At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don’t think you can help but be involved.” American singer.Songwriter.Pianist.Composer.Civil rights activist.

  • Feets Do Your Thing

    I guess I was grossly mistaken when we moved here; I thought we would be paying much less for gas per gallon than we did in San Francisco. A week ago, I was waiting for the interminable light at Packard and Stadium to change and the price at one station on the corner was raised…

  • Not Such a Liberal Bastion After All

    Ann Arbor isn’t the liberal bastion I thought it was; while ‘guest teaching’ today at a central AA middle school during a Career Day assembly, I passed a science classroom which was empty except for the teacher. She had the radio blaring out with full throated and ‘kill all the liberals in the colleges and…

  • Cautionary Tale

    Yesterday I was riding one of the Hatcher elevators with an undergrad who was helping a co-worker cart some ficuses somewhere (aren’t ficuses always either standing in a corner of an office or being carted somewhere?). The co-worker asked him what he was planning on doing after graduation. “Oh, I don’t know, go to law…