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Donald Duck succumbs to Glenn Beck

It’s everywhere on the internet today. Sorry if you’ve already seen it. But I couldn’t help myself.

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J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn run off that crazy cliff

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if […]

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Eavesdropping

I had this idea a long time ago to open a Chinese restaurant where, at the end of the meal, everyone at the table would get a personalized fortune in their fortune cookie. We’d pull it off by bugging each of the tables, and listening in on people’s private dinner conversations. So, if, let’s say, […]

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Cool things I didn’t do this weekend: Hamtramck Bars Poker Run

I’ve been talking about having a big, somewhat coordinated bar crawl here in Ypsi for quite some time now. Maybe it would be ill advised, but I was thinking that we’d have one drink in each of six different places. And, I even went so far as to talk some folks involved with Bike Ypsi, […]

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Jane Jacobs: Genius of Common Sense

I just noticed in the New York Time Review of Books that there’s a new children’s book out about one of our favorite women, Jane Jacobs, the author of the brilliant 1961 book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” The book, recommended for readers between the ages of nine and twelve, is called […]

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