OK, I’ve decided to open a bottle of whiskey and watch tonight’s presidential debate between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and reality television personality Donald Trump. And I’m going to try, to the best of my ability, to blog throughout. If you’d like to join me in the conversation, feel free to post comments […]
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Clinton v. Trump
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2016, Alicia Machado, conspiracy theories, debates, Donald Trump, EOS, Ford, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Iraq war, Jennifer Flowers, Lester Holt, lies, live blogging, misogyny, nuclear weapons, politics, Presidential politics, race, racial profiling, Russia, Scott Baio, Sean Hannity, sexism, sniffles, stamina, stop and frisk, tax cuts, temperament, theology of tax cuts, trade agreements, trickle down economics, Vladimir Putin 75 Comments
What exactly happened to Detroit?
Someone from Europe posed the following question on Reddit a few days ago… “Americans: What exactly happened to Detroit? I regularly see photos on Reddit of abandoned areas of the city and read stories of high unemployment and dereliction, but as a European have never heard the full story.” Here, because I think some of […]
Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged Albert Kahn, anti-union, automotive industry, Belle Isle, Brush Park, Chicago, city income tax, Coleman Young, Comerica Park, Corktown, corruption, crack cocaine, Dave Bing, Detroit '67 riots, Detroit City Council, Detroit corruption, Detroit Riot, Detroit River, factories, Ford Field, Ford Motor Company, forestry, General Motors, GM, Henry Ford, housing bubble, housing crisis, industrialization, Joe Louis Arena, Kevyn Orr, Kwame Kilpatrick, logging, lumber, maquiladora, Mexico, North American Free Trade Act, northern migration, outsourcing, People Mover, Poletown Plant, prohibition, public transportation, Pulte, racism, Rail, Renaissance Center, Rick Snyder, rightsizing of Detroit, Ross Perot, the parable of Detroit, union busting, unions, westward expansion, who to blame for the situation in Detroit 9 Comments
Chris Hedges calls Black Bloc anarchists a cancer to the Occupy movement
In hopes of continuing our conversation on the value that Black Bloc anarchists bring to the Occupy movement, I thought that I’d link to this new article on the subject by Chris Hedges. Here’s a clip. The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer […]
Posted in Politics, Rants Also tagged anarchy, Anarchy is Stupid, anti-globalism, black bloc, Chris Hedges, democracy protests, Derrick Jensen, Green Anarchy, hypermasculinity, John Zerzan, mob mentality, Noam Chomsky, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, progressive adolescentization, property destruction, protests, security state, surveilance, The Culture of Make Believe, Theodore Kaczynski, Theodore Roszak, Unabomber, vandalism, Zapatistas 18 Comments