Tag Archives: hypocrisy

DMCA Take-Down Part II: attacked and threatened for my unauthorized use of “time travel”

By Mark | May 13, 2013

As you may recall, several months ago, a Detroit Mercy law student, in an attempt to purge our collective hive mind of any trace of his shameful indiscretions as a Young Republican operative on the campus of the University of Michigan, had my site yanked from the internet, citing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged animation, attacks, Brad Pitt, copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, FBI, hypocrisy watch, intimidation, Iron Man, Justin Zatkoff, Mike Huckabee, Ronald Reagan, site maintenance, Slime Gravel Academy, the future of this site, time travel, Will Smith, Young Republicans | 19 Comments

No Rubbers at Domino’s Farms: Tom Monaghan granted another temporary injunction against Obamacare contraception mandate by Judge Lawrence Zaktoff

By Mark | March 17, 2013

Finding common cause with the freedom fighters of the adult film industry, Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan won a big legal victory late last week, ensuring, at least for the time being, that he’d be able to keep his Michigan workplace condom-free. On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff ruled in Tom Monaghan’s favor, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Ave Maria, Boogie Down Productions, Catholicism, Christian dominionists, College Republicans, contraception, discrimination, Domino's Farms, Domino's Pizza, family planning, fundamentalist religion, injunction, jimmy hat, Justin Zatkoff, Lawrence Paul Zatkoff, legal discrimination, Obamacare, religion, rewriting history, Scientology, separation of church and state, Texas, Tom Monaghan, University of Detroit Mercy | 23 Comments

City Manager Ralph Lange indicates that Ypsilanti is moving toward a hybrid police/fire scheme in which public safety officers will be expected to fight fires, save lives, pursue suspects and dispense lethal force

By Mark | March 11, 2013

It would seem that Ralph Lange, our new city manager, has made up his mind that we should merge Ypsilanti’s Police and Fire departments in hopes of further delaying landfall of the category-five fiscal storm gathering on the horizon. He’s admittedly in a tough spot, and I’m sympathetic. He’s trying to radically cut spending, in [...]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Brian Robb, city income tax, city services, class warfare, consolidation of services, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Manager, Karen Maurer, local income tax, mutual aid, perfect storm, PSO, public safety, public safety officer, Ralph Lange, redistribution of wealth, Rick Snyder, Steve Pierce, Stop City Income Tax, taxes, the concentration of wealth, threats to the middle class, Water Street, wealth inequality, Ypsilanti Fire Department, Ypsilanti police department | 43 Comments

Someone should tell Governor Snyder that a “perfect storm” isn’t generally considered a good thing

By Mark | January 8, 2013

The state of Michigan took out an incredibly-costly full-page ad in today’s Wall Street Journal, proudly announcing to the world not only that we’ve officially joined the likes of Alabama and Mississippi in becoming a so-called “right-to-work” state, but that we’ve finally put the embarrassing pro-labor legacy of the The Battle of the Overpass behind [...]

Posted in Media, Michigan, Observations, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged Battle of the Overpass, cheap labor, Jase Bolger, labor history, marketing, Michigan House of Representatives, Pure Michigan, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, threats to the middle class, unions, Wall Street Journal | 34 Comments

Peter King discovers that he’s in a party of assholes… he’s yet to realize, however, that he’s one too

By Mark | January 2, 2013

Republican Congressman Peter King’s epic rant against his party’s leadership in the House is all over the web today. People, it would seem, like seeing Republican’s awaken to the fact that it’s their party that’s the problem. And that’s what happened today, as King went to the press, irate that his party’s leaders, despite their [...]