A few weeks ago, as you may remember, I suggested that a particularly horrific dream that I’d had involving Ted Cruz may have come to me because, just a few hours before going to sleep, I’d broken a “self-imposed, month-long ban on sugar, wheat, dairy, alcohol, caffeine, processed foods, fried foods, and everything else that […]
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How I abused my blender and saved my life
A “terrible blow to journalism, ” MLive cuts 29 jobs at a time when Michigan desperately needs quality reporting
I think everyone knew, when it was announced a few days before Christmas that Laurel Champion, MLive’s general manager for Southeast Michigan, would be leaving the organization, that something was up. Champion, after all, had been with the digital media company since the very beginning… since the moment when she, as the Publisher of the […]
This new device is absolutely jaw dropping!
[This is a desperate cry for help. Mark Maynard cannot break free from the pull of Facebook’s “jaw-dropping” click bait headlines. They have rewired his brain… And you won’t believe what he does next!]
Rape Culture click bait
A few days ago the folks at Boing Boing rebroadcast an imagine that they’d picked up from Salon.com politics editor Elias Isquith. The image, which has now been shared by over 8,000 people on Facebook alone, started showing up in my social media feeds this morning, accompanied by words like, “horrifying.” On the face of […]