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David Landrum on the launch of Two James…. the first distillery in Detroit since Prohibition

By Mark | January 31, 2013

As you may have heard, a new distillery will soon be opening in the Corktown section of Detroit, not too far from where our friend Lisa Waud will be opening the new flower shop I told you about a few days ago. From what I’m told, it will be the first legal distillery to operate [...]

Tying to make sense of last night’s mass murder in Colorado

By Mark | July 20, 2012

I should be spending my evening thinking about just what in the hell I’m going to do at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair, but I can’t stop reading about last night’s horrific events in Colorado. Predictably, a lot of people, like our friend Roger Ebert, are taking the opportunity to argue that more meaningful gun control [...]

Posted in Other, Shadow Art Fair | Also tagged AceRock, Amok, Batman, Christians under attack, Gabrielle Giffords, gun control, gun violence, How The Mind Works, insanity, killing, Louie Gohmert, Malay, Marilyn Manson, mass murder, mental illness, National Institutes of Mental Health, Papua New Guinea, Roger Ebert, Steven Pinker | 16 Comments

Claiming the Palin mandate

By Mark | November 4, 2010

As we discussed yesterday, the election, while certainly bad for the Democrats, doesn’t really indicate what could be considered a Republican mandate. But that fact doesn’t seem to stop politicians and pundits from making the claim. And it certainly doesn’t stop demagogues from taking credit. And that’s what we’re seeing right now. Yesterday, in the [...]

Posted in Observations, Other, Politics | Also tagged California, Carly Fiorina, Christine O'Donnell, chutzpah, Conan O'Brien, Delaware, demagoguery, endorsements, Joe Miller, John Raese, Lisa Murkowski, mama grizzlies, mandates, masturbating bear, Nevada, Pedobear, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, taking credit for things you didn't do, tea party, Tom Tancredo, West Virginia | 10 Comments

The contest between Fear and Hope

By Mark | August 16, 2009

Yesterday, President Obama spoke on the subject of healthcare reform in Grand Junction, Colorado. Here’s a clip from the transcript of his speech, which I think gets right to the heart of the matter: …And when you hear about these experiences, when you think of the millions of people denied coverage because of preexisting conditions, [...]

Posted in Health, Ideas, Politics | Also tagged Blue Dog Democrats, capitulation, fear, Grand Junction, health insurance, healthcare, healthcare reform, hope, lobbyists, Medicare, preexisting conditions | 31 Comments

What can we learn from Boulder?

By Mark | April 4, 2009

Wednesday night, on a tip from our tech entrepreneur friend Dug Song (who, by the way, just launched a new blog on Ann Arbor Startups), I went to hear a venture capitalist from Boulder, Colorado speak at the University of Michigan Business School. Professor David Brophy, the man behind Michigan’s annual Growth Capital Symposium, had [...]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Locally Owned Business, Michigan, Observations, Sustainability | Also tagged Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Startups, Because having a boss sucks, Boston, Boulder, David Brophy, Denver, Department of Energy, Dug Song, Entrepreneurs Unplugged, Foundry Group, Growth Capital Symposium, hippy college town, IT, Jason Mendelson, Kleiner Perkins, mentorship, Microsoft, New Tech Meetup, Silicon Flatirons, Silicon Valley, software, Startup Weekend, TechStars, toxic environment, University of Colorado at Boulder, venture capital | 8 Comments

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