About a dozen years ago now, I had an opportunity to work on a project with a young, precocious engineering undergrad at the University of Michigan by the name of Patricia Griffin. Our lives have taken us in different directions over the course of past decade, but we’ve always done a pretty good job of […]
Tag Archives: drugs
Patricia Griffin on the business challenges and entrepreneurial opportunities of Africa
A federal drug bust at Emmet and Hamilton?
The following note was left last night in an open thread by a reader who goes by the name Watching Laughing. I thought that I’d move it up here to the front page in hopes that someone in city government or local law enforcement might comment on the drug bust referenced. I would like to […]
Depot Town’s Strain of the Day
When I friended Ypsi’s “Depot Town” on Facebook a few days ago, I wasn’t aware that I was, in fact, friending Depot Town’s new medical marijuana dispensary. So, now, I guess, I’m going to be receiving “strain of the day” updates every morning. For the record, I don’t give a shit whether or not people […]
What it’s really like in Michigan’s prisons
Last night, I reprinted a letter sent by a Michigan school Superintendent to our Governor, asking that his school be converted over to a prison. Given that we fund corrections better than we do education in this state, he argued that it would be in the best interests of his students. He was clearly attempting […]
Only 3 of 763 “sneak-and-peek” requests in 2008 involved terrorism
Remember back when we were called unpatriotic fucks for suggesting that Bush’s Patriot Act ran contrary to the Bill of Rights? Remember how we said that once we gave the government warrantless access to people’s homes, that they’d abuse it – and how people on the right told us that we were just being paranoid? […]