A week or so ago, when I told you about my recent trip to Milwaukee, I promised that there would be a follow-up post, in which I’d talk about fish fries, public art, and the like. Well, I’m afraid that I’ve put it off so long now that I can’t quite remember what it was […]
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Milwaukee part two… fish fries, public art and swooning tweens
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged alewife, Calvin Black, door-to-door eel salesman, Dorothy Avery, eels, experimental film, fish, fish fry, folk art, folk art environments, Frank Sinatra, fried fish, Galesburg, Howard Finster, Illinois, invasive species, kids today, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Mimi Dorothy, native species, perch, Possum Trot, public art, salmon, sculpture, street lights, Sweden, Water Street, Water Street Commons, wheatpasting, Wisconsin, zebra mussels 10 Comments
On Republican bloodlust and Obama’s Job Act
If Obama really wanted people to get behind him and this new jobs initiative of his, he would have announced this evening that he was planning to top Rick Perry by taking the lives of 250 American citizens. (Just think of all the executioners and grave diggers we could put to work if he said […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged American Jobs Act, asshole Republicans of Texas, blood thirsty, Cameron Todd Willingham, death penalty, deregulation, EPA, executions, FEMA, Global Warming, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, putting innocent men to death, Rick Perry, smog, Texas justice, things to lose sleep over 16 Comments
Dow Chemical given the green light to continue polluting in Michigan
If you read the local papers, you probably saw the awesome news yesterday that Dow Chemical had joined with state and federal funding agencies to launch a $130 million investment fund for Michigan companies. What you probably didn’t read about, however, is the fact that Dow was just given tacit approval by the courts to […]