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That Michigan state senator who wants to force foster children to wear only hand-me-downs because he personally “never had anything new”? Detroit journalist and blogger Nancy Nall has this to say about him: Caswell is 61. He “never” had anything new. So why should anyone else? Look what it did for him: He graduated from […]
From a USA Today article published 8/9/2004: “A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department obtained video surveillance tapes suggesting terrorists were targeting Las Vegas casinos but authorities never alerted the public as they discussed whether a warning might hurt tourism or increase the casinos’ legal liability, internal memos show.” I blogged about […]
Last weekend we bumped into a friend we hadn’t seen in a couple of years. She had news. R________, a guidance counselor at a local high school, was fired a couple of months ago … along with the rest of the school’s faculty and staff. And get what the school district calls this mass firing: […]
From an ABC news article: Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., repeated a Republican argument today that abortions are “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.” He later clarified that the statistic, which is inaccurate, was “not intended to be a factual statement.” Well, good. We all know what’s going on, and it’s about time […]
It was enormously disappointing to watch Jon Stewart fluffing Mau Mau Mike Huckabee on Wednesday’s Daily Show. Oh, Stewart gently nibbled at him about his support for right-wing fundamentalist David Barton, but he didn’t challenge any of his evasive answers. He didn’t mention Huckabee’s advocacy of religious indoctrination at gunpoint, nor did he bring up […]
No, not bicycles or motorcycles . . . I’m thinking of a different kind of cycle this time, as in: noun: a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one (source: dictionary.com) When I entered the F-15 training program in the […]
My motorcycle trip threw me off my blogging schedule. Hey, I’m looking for something to blame … something other than myself, that is … and the motorcycle trip is handy. Speaking of motorcycle trips, I amused myself by going on a short (less than 100 miles) ride this morning, heading down to the Triple T […]
… but I am, these days, a little more down than up. Particularly over the union-busting going on in so many states, and peoples’ refusal to see what lies behind it. Republican governors and Republican-dominated state legislatures aren’t trying to save money by busting public employee unions and cutting back on education and services funding. […]