On behalf of the people of Michigan, I apologize… Not only were we one of three states credited with making Donald Trump, the least qualified presidential candidate in American history, our President-elect, but, as it turns out, we might also be responsible for ending public education as we know it. You see, we, the people […]
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We should have stopped Betsy DeVos when we had the chance
Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged Acton Institute, Amway, Betsy DeVos, child labor, dismantling of public education, Donald Trump, education reform, HB 4052, Lily Eskelsen GarcĂa, literacy, Michelle Rhee, minimum wage, MLM, multi-level marketing, National Education Association, NEA, Newt Gingrich, opportunity gap, privatization, public education, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, right-to-work, school vouchers, schools of choice, Secretary of Education, The Act to Enhance Access to the Workplace for Minors, threats to public education, virtual charters 102 Comments
Michigan’s Michael Skupin: Reality television star turned Christian con man
Before we had Clemetine, there was a period of time when Linette and I did normal things, like hang out at night and watch television. One of the last things that I can remember watching, back in “the television days,” was the second season of Survivor, the one that introduced the world to the petite […]
Posted in Pop Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged born again christian, Christians under attack, con men, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Hall of Shame, Michael Skupin, Mike Sorrentino, multi-level marketing, Nazi, Pay it Forward, Ponzi scheme, reality television, Rob Wolcheck, Rob Wolchek, Survivor, The Situation, Tila Tequila 17 Comments
Big Death… How the funeral industry is killing us
As it’s been a while since we’ve discussed America’s rapidly consolidating and progressively evil funeral industry, I thought that I’d share this comment, which was left a few days ago on Reddit, in a thread about industry secrets, by an unnamed individual claiming to be a funeral director. [I’ve added several links, but otherwise the […]
Posted in Other, Uncategorized Also tagged A Family Undertaking, All Saints, anus, big death, biohazard, casket, chemicals, coined phrases, coining new words and phrases, Corporate Crime, cremation, cremation societies, Death, deathcare, Dignity Memorials, embalming fluid, Erika Nelson, eye caps, FTC Funeral Rule, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral homes, funeral supplies, funerals, Generations Funeral Service, green burial, Josh Slocum, leakage, monopoly, Muehlig Funeral Home, napping in caskets, natural burial, pollution, purge, sales, SCI, Secrets, Service Corporation International, STEI, Stewart Enterprises, toxic waste, trocar, vagina, water quality 33 Comments