Late last week the Washington Post added a little more fuel to the “Jesus Christ, Men Really Suck” bonfire when they reported that Congress’s Office of Compliance has paid out approximately $17 million over the past 20 years in unreported settlements to 264 federal employees, many of whom, you can be sure, collected those settlements […]
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What the John Conyers case tells us about how sexual predators are treated in Congress
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged accusations, Al Franken, allegations, Buzzfeed, Congress, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Office of Compliance, conspiracy theories, date rape, Donald Trump, equality, hacking, Hillary Clinton, House Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Howard Dean, John Conyers, John Podesta, leaks, men's rights, Mike Cernovich, Monica Conyers, pay-offs, pizzagate, Righteous Pink Wave of Reckoning, Senate, sexism, sexual harassment, sexual predator, women's rights, wrongful termination 13 Comments
What exactly happened to Detroit?
Someone from Europe posed the following question on Reddit a few days ago… “Americans: What exactly happened to Detroit? I regularly see photos on Reddit of abandoned areas of the city and read stories of high unemployment and dereliction, but as a European have never heard the full story.” Here, because I think some of […]
Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged Albert Kahn, anti-union, automotive industry, Belle Isle, Brush Park, Chicago, city income tax, Coleman Young, Comerica Park, Corktown, corruption, crack cocaine, Dave Bing, Detroit '67 riots, Detroit corruption, Detroit Riot, Detroit River, factories, Ford Field, Ford Motor Company, forestry, General Motors, GM, Henry Ford, housing bubble, housing crisis, industrialization, Joe Louis Arena, Kevyn Orr, Kwame Kilpatrick, logging, lumber, maquiladora, Mexico, NAFTA, North American Free Trade Act, northern migration, outsourcing, People Mover, Poletown Plant, prohibition, public transportation, Pulte, racism, Rail, Renaissance Center, Rick Snyder, rightsizing of Detroit, Ross Perot, the parable of Detroit, union busting, unions, westward expansion, who to blame for the situation in Detroit 9 Comments