By Mark | December 30, 2013 This holiday season Sarah Palin became the most recent in a long line of shameless conservative pundits to cash in on the so-called War on Christmas. Her book, “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” was released at the end of November to the delight of poorly informed Fox News-viewers everywhere. The […]
Also posted in Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Tagged Bible, Bill O'Reilly, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Church of England, Easter, evangelical, Foolstide, FOX News, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, human sacrifice, Increase Mather, Jesus, Michael D. Hattem, nativity, pagan, paranoia, persecution complex, Puritans, religious freedom, Roman, Sabbath, Sarah Palin, Saturnalia, secular saboteurs, secularism, The Junto, the secularist agenda, war on Christmas, wassailling | By Mark | December 16, 2013 Apparently I have a lot of friends up in arms this evening over the fact that Rich and Chris Magner, the owners of Ann Arbor’s iconic Blimpy Burger, have launched a crowd funding campaign in hopes of raising the money needed to reopen their restaurant in a new location. (As most of you probably know, […]
Also posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, Food, Uncategorized | Tagged 1953, Blimpy Burger, burgers, Chris Magner, crowd funding, fundraising, restaurants, Rich Magner, University of Michigan | By Mark | December 1, 2013 Thanks to my network of well-compensated spies, I was just recently tipped off to the existence of today’s interview subject, Sarah Zawacki. Sadly, our interview had already concluded when it was brought to my attention that she shared her home with a domesticated hedgehog by the name of Mabel (seen below), so I didn’t get […]
Also posted in Local Business, Michigan, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Tagged Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, Carole Lombard, Clara Bow, Congdon's Ace Hardware, conspiracy theories, Deja Vu, Depot Town, farmers market, hedgehogs, immigration interview, IT, It Happened One Night, Lillian Gish, living where you work, Martha Washington Theater, My Man Godfrey, Myrna Loy, passenger rail, public libraries, public safety officer, Sarah Zawacki, The Night of the Hunter, The Thin Man, Thompson Block, unusual pets, walkability, water, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti Downtown Library, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums | By Mark | November 20, 2013 As you know if you read this site, I interviewed local musician Matt Jones over this past weekend about his all-consuming love for Gettysburg… Well, somewhere during our conversation, thanks in large part to Matt’s overwhelming enthusiasm for the subject matter, I decided that I needed to pack up the family and visit the battlefield […]
