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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, hypocrisy, Jase Bolger, labor history, Michigan House of Representatives, Pure Michigan, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, threats to the middle class, unions, Wall Street Journal | 34 Comments

Little Winsor in Ypsilanti

By Mark | October 15, 2012

Today marks the 107th anniversary of former-Yopsilantian Winsor McCay’s surrealist, illustrated masterpiece Little Nemo in Slumberland, and, to mark the occasion, the folks at Google have rolled out an incredible new, interactive header, which you can see in action in the following video. The following is from the Christian Science Monitor. The Google homepage today [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged animation, Arlo, Captain Nemo, Cleary Business College, comics, dime museums, Disney, dream interpretation, dream sequence, Dreamland Theater, dreams, Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, Eastern Michigan University, famous people, Gertie the Dinosaur, Google Doodles, John Goodison, Laura Bien, Little Nemo, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Michigan State Normal School, Naia Venturi, New York Herald, P.T. Barnum, rarebit, Sackett and Wiggin’s Wonderland, serendipity, Spring Lake, stained glass, surrealism, vaudeville, Winsor McCay, Ypsilanti Commercial | 7 Comments

Do yo think “Life Begins at Rape” bumper stickers would sell at the RNC?

By Mark | August 27, 2012

People are up in arms this evening over something that vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said recently, when asked to comment on his fellow Republican Todd Akin’s statements concerning “legitimate rape”. (As you’ll recall, Akin, who is running for Senate, had said that “real” rapes don’t result in pregnancy, implying that women who claim to [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, allegations of rape, bumper stickers, conception, conception begins at rape, legitimate rape, life begins at rape, Mark's big ideas, Paul Ryan, people interviewed in closets, pork, Presidential politics, rape, reproductive justice, RNC, Todd Akin, women's rights | 17 Comments

A glimpse of Prometheus by way of a TED talk given 11 years in the future

By Mark | February 28, 2012

I like good, inspired marketing, and I think the following video qualifies. It’s a new trailer for director Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated sci-fi film Prometheus. The trailer, as you can see, is disguised as a TED talk from the year 2023, given by Peter Weyland, the extremely confident, boundary pushing CEO of Weyland Industries. (If [...]