Tag Archives: middle class

Michael Moore on “the biggest ‘fuck you’ ever recorded in human history” and the righteous anger of the dispossessed American Trump supporter

By Mark | October 26, 2016

While I’m helping Arlo get his pterodactyl costume ready for tomorrow night’s YpsiGlow event, I wanted to share this video with you. It’s an excerpt from Micahel Moore’s new film Trumpland. As it’s been making it’s way around the internet for the past day or two, I suspect that most of you have probably already […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Predictions | Also tagged 2016, Arlo, Brexit, costumes, Detroit Economic Club, dispossessed, Donald Trump, Ford Motor Company, free trade, fuck you, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Hillbilly Elegy, Mexico, Michael Moore, middle class anger, molotov, Obamacare, outsourcing, Percocet, Presidential politics, revenge, Trumpland, voting, YpsiGLOW | 240 Comments

Autonomous trucking, the coming shift in the American workforce, and beginning a discussion on universal basic income

By Mark | October 25, 2016

The most interesting news today had absolutely nothing to do with either Clinton or Trump for a change. It was news out of Colorado involving the first known instance of a self-driving truck successfully transporting merchandise over the U.S. highway system. Here’s the truck in question, which, just a few days ago, carried 2,000 cases […]

Posted in Economics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2014, AB InBev, American Trucking Association, autonomous trucking, autonomous vehicles, beer, beer delivery, census data, manufacturing, Otto, Smokey and the Bandit, the future of America, threats to the middle class, truck drivers, trucks, Uber, universal basic income, warnings from the future, work | 62 Comments

Bernie Sanders came to Ann Arbor today to attach Trump, and rile up the kids for Clinton… and it was awesome

By Mark | October 6, 2016

Endearingly disheveled hero of the American left, Senator Bernie Sanders, made his way through Michigan today, pumping up crowds on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the run up to next month’s presidential election. Our job, he told the crowd that gathered to hear him speak at the University of Michigan’s Museum […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, anti-science, Bangladesh, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, birther, Birthers, China, Citizens United, Constitutional amendments, Donald Trump, free college tuition, get the money out of Washington, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, Hillary Clinton, How to get our Democracy Back, income inequality, Koch brothers, Mexico, misogyny, oligarchy, outsourcing, Presidential politics, racism, Science, Sheldon Adelson, Socialism, student debt, tax policy, taxes, threats to Democracy, threats to the middle class, trade agreements, Turkey, University of Michigan | 21 Comments

Obama’s brilliant speech on trickle down economics becomes exponentially more incredible with animation

By Mark | October 8, 2012

I have something for you to watch while I’m working on tonight’s post. It’s a short animated piece put together by a fellow named Lucas Gray, who, among other things, works on The Simpsons. I don’t know if he was hired to do it, or if he just decided to pull together some friends and […]

Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged animation, Bill O'Reilly, Bush tax cuts, hate, hate speech, Jon Stewart, Lucas Gray, tax cuts, tax the rich, The Simpsons, threats to the middle class, trickle down economics, wealth inequality, Why Obama Now | 5 Comments

Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle

By Mark | February 21, 2012

I just received a note from Nathan Ayers, the guy who won the first $1,000 grant from A2Awesome. He wanted to let me know that, back in 1984, the television program PM Magazine ran a feature on Harry Bennett’s fortress on the banks of the Huron River, in Ypsilanti. Bennett, for those of you don’t […]