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Bill Ayers: “The road to the massive cheating scandal in Atlanta runs right through the White House”

By Mark | April 3, 2013

Continuing our recent conversation on the misguided work of education reform advocate Michelle “we can test our way to better schools” Rhee, I thought that I’d share this comment, which was sent out yesterday by our friend Bill Ayers in response to news that 27 former educators in the Atlanta public school system had reported [...]

California bans the pay-the-gay-away psychological torture of LGBT youth known as “reparative therapy”

By Mark | October 1, 2012

As you may recall, former Ypsilantian Josh Steichman told us earlier this summer that he was working on a campaign to see the so-called reparative therapy of minors outlawed in California. Well, this weekend, Josh and the rest of the Equality California team were successful. California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law legislation that would [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged AB 1505, AB 1700, AB 1856, anti-science, anxiety, But I'm a Cheerleader, California, closet case, conversion therapy, depression, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Equality California, ex gay, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, George Rekers, homophobia, Jerry Brown, Josh Steichman, legislation, LGBTQ, lube, Magic Mike, Marcus Bachmann, Michele Bachmann, Michigan, pay the gay away, pray the gay away, psychological abuse, rent boy, reparative therapy, Rick Snyder, SB 1140, self hatred, suicide, Ted Lieu, therapy, UCLA, Vermont, Wisconsin, Ypsilanti water tower | 39 Comments

On the murder of our ambassador to Libya and the shameless politicization of his death

By Mark | September 13, 2012

If you believe what we’re being told in the press, an Israeli real estate developer in California by the name of Sam Bacile, raised $5 million from 100 Jewish donors in order to make a film about the “cancer” that is Islam. That’s Bacile’s word, not mine. Before you get mad at Bacile, though, there’s [...]

Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Benghazi, Cairo, Chris Stevens, conspiracy theory, Coptic, donkey, Egypt, homophobia, Innocence of Muslims, Islam, jihad, L. Ron Hubbard, Libya, moderate Islam, Mohammed, Mohammed Magarief, Mormon, Muslim, Obama, Qaddafi, Reince Preibus, religious freedom, religious fundamentalism, Romney, Salafis, Sam Bacile, terrorism, Terry Jones, The Book of Mormon, the prophet, xenophobia | 117 Comments

Did Jesus exist?

By Mark | June 17, 2012

Earlier today, a reader by the name of Edward, in hopes of stirring shit up with our of our resident trolls, who happens to be an evangelical, conservative Christian, shared the image to the right. It’s not something that I would typically move up to the front page, but I found the subsequent conversation interesting, [...]

Posted in History, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bart Ehram, Chrestus, Christianity, Cornelius Tactus, darkness, Doug Skinner, Flavius Josephus, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Jesus, Judaea, Pliny the Younger, Rat Pack, religion, Sammy Davis Jr, Thallus, UFOs | 59 Comments

$500 matching grant announced for contributions made to Ozone House by the end of the day today

By Mark | March 29, 2012

Last night, I mentioned here that a dozen or so friends and I, through the micro-philonthropic organization, A2Awesome, had contributed $1,000 to Ozone House, a local nonprofit that has been serving runaway, homeless and at-risk youth since the 1960s. The response, as you might expect, was overwhelmingly positive. There was, however, one dissenting voice. Our [...]