I was just lamenting to my friend Pete yesterday that we didn’t have any leaders today like Robert Kennedy. Apparently others are thinking along the same lines. The following clip comes from an opinion piece by former Senate staffer Brent Budowsky: …I believe there is now an economically unpatriotic wing of the GOP. They express […]
Tag Archives: ghosts
On wanting the ghost of RFK to visit Obama like Jacob Marley visited Scrooge
Posted in Mark's Life, Politics Also tagged Appalachia, Brent Budowsky, Kentucky, Lexington, Mark's birth, Obama, Pete Larson, poverty, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Scrooge, tax the rich, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America, unpatriotic, using ghosts to achieve political goals 23 Comments
Are there any good local ghosts?
As much time as I spend on this site talking about eating local food and supporting local businesses, and lambasting those who don’t, it strikes me as somewhat hypocritical that all of my favorite ghosts are in New England and the American South… Anyway, seeing as how it’s Halloween, this struck me as a good […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Other, Ypsilanti Also tagged drownings, Halloween, holidays, Huron River, It's Halloween, paranormal, Philosophy of the World, The Shaggs 13 Comments
R.I.P. Harvy Pekar
Well-respected autobiographical comic book writer and curmudgeon Harvey Pekar died at his home in Cleveland last night. He was 70 years old… I hope his old adversary David Letterman says something nice about him tonight. And, if he doesn’t, I hope that Harvey haunts the shit out of him.