For those of you who haven’t seen it yet on PBS, Ypsi was featured on the most recent episode of Under the Radar Michigan. The crew, as you may recall, was here in town this past October, shooting footage of people lined up down Michigan Avenue, waiting to partake of the 40¢ chicken dinners that […]
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No Robocop for Detroit
Perhaps due in part to that Chrysler ad that captured everyone’s imagination during the Super Bowl , the city of Detroit is, once again, attracting national media attention. Today, there’s a feature in the Washington Post entitled, “With Detroit in dire straits, mayor invites big thinking.” Here’s a clip. …With no salvation in sight, Bing, […]
Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged Build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, Chazz Miller, Chrysler, Dave Bing, downsizing of Detroit, Egypt, Knight Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Martha Reeves, rightsizing of Detroit, Robin Boyle, Robocop, Rockefeller Foundation, Skillman Foundation, the Detroit situation, Tunisia, urban development, urban farming, urban homesteading, Urban Land Institute, urban planning, Wayne State 18 Comments
The insidious threat of secular saboteurs
Bill Donohue, the President of the Catholic League, had the following to say in a Newsweek op-ed today. [Be sure to read all the way to the end.] …There are many ways cultural nihilists are busy trying to sabotage America these days: multiculturalism is used as a club to beat down Western civilization in the […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, sex Also tagged abortion, American culture, bathhouses, Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Catholicism, Catholics for Choice, conspiracy theorist, cultural nihilists, culture war, going cold turkey on abortions, insults against people of faith, moral anarchists, pro-life, radicals, religious freedom, religious sabotage, secular saboteurs, secular-minded malcontents, secularism, the gay 19 Comments