By Mark | August 25, 2011
An appeals court today in Michigan found that so-called medical marijuana dispensaries, like those which have popped up all around Ypsilanti during this past year, are illegal. The following clip comes from the Washington Post: Medical marijuana cannot be sold through private shops, the Michigan appeals court said Wednesday in a major decision that strikes […]
Posted in Health, Michigan, Other, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bill Schuette, David Gomez, Glen S, high-fructose corn syrup, lazy friends, lazy fucks, Mark offends a friend, medical marijuana, Pete Larson, posts where Mark comes across as an uncool douche, pot, Thom Elliott |
If you read the local papers, you probably saw the awesome news yesterday that Dow Chemical had joined with state and federal funding agencies to launch a $130 million investment fund for Michigan companies. What you probably didn’t read about, however, is the fact that Dow was just given tacit approval by the courts to […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Environment, Michigan | Also tagged cancer, cancer cluster, class action, corporatocracy, dioxin, disease cluster, InvestMichigan! Mezzanine Fund, Lake Huron, Leopold Borello, Midland, pollution, Saginaw River, Supreme Court, Tittabawassee River |
Courtland Milloy posed an interesting question in today’s Washington Post… What would the response of government and citizenry have been if the armed militia movement we’re seeing spread across America had been almost exclusively black, instead of white? Here’s a clip: Imagine that the inauguration of President George W. Bush had sparked an explosive rise […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Environment, Other, Politics | Also tagged 1984, Bhopal, Courtland Milloy, Deepwater Horizon, double standard, Glenn Beck, guns, Halliburton, Intelligence Project, Mark Potok, Martin Feldman, militias, Obaba's private black army, off-shore drilling, people who claim that it's not about race when we know that it is, race, racism, Southern Poverty Law Center, Transocean, Union Carbide |
We haven’t talked about advances in algae-derived biofuels in a while, so I thought that I’d pass along this story about a cooperative venture between Dow Chemical and Florida’s Algenol Biofuels from today’s New York Times. I haven’t done any due diligence yet, but, on the face of it, it sounds incredibly cool. Here’s a […]