By Mark | September 6, 2014
After nearly 25 years in Ypsi, the empowered little girl you see below will soon be breaking free. Please join me in wishing Christine Laughren safe travels as she embarks on the next chapter of her life, far away from the American midwest… Here’s her official exit interview. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsi? […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Africa, Agriculture, Andrew Cipolla, Back to Ypsilanti, Carpenter Road, Christine Laughren, Dan DuChene, Dom Bakery, Eastern Echo, ebola, Elbow Room, EMU, exit interviews, FLY Children's Art Center, Ford Lake, Frog Island, frogs, From Michigan to Ghana with Love, Ghana, Growing Hope, Heritage Media, Highland, iSPY, karaoke, Lincoln Consolidated, Mark Norris, Pakmode Media, Peace Corps, Pure Michigan, Ridgewood Apartments, Shadow Art Fair, Visit Ypsilanti, water tower, Ypsi Citizen, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ypsilanti Citizen, Ypsilanti Frog Killing Coalition, Ypsilanti Township |
By Mark | November 26, 2012
There’s only one thing people on the far right hate more than the United Nations, and that’s the United Nations setting international guidelines for sustainable development. I learned this a few days ago, while listening to a special episode of Glenn Beck’s radio program about a secret UN initiative to deal with the looming threats […]
Posted in Environment, History, Observations, Other, Politics, Predictions, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1984, 1992, Agenda 21, Alabama, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-environment, Arizona, bike lanes, Chip Rogers, city planning, competing visions for the future of America, concentration camps, Conference on Environment and Development, conspiracy theories, corporatocracy, Delphi, deregulation, dyptopia, Earth Summit, Emmeline, fear mongering, Field Searcy, Georgia, Georgia State Senate, Glenn Beck, global climate change, Global Warming, Harriet Parke, mass transit, mind control, paranoia, rationing, regulation, Republican National Committee, Republican platform, RNC, suburbs, survival seeds, tea party, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of America, The Handmaid's Tale, the hijacking of the Republican party, the threat of Socialism, traffic circles, United Nations, urban sprawl |
By Mark | November 14, 2010
Yesterday, in a post about the President’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, I mentioned that co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles suggested, amid a long laundry list of federal programs to be cut, the elimination of the mortgage tax deduction. While I deduct my mortgage interest when calculating my taxes each year, just like everyone else […]
Posted in Economics, Environment, Politics | Also tagged Alan Simpson, Brandon Zwagerman, Bush tax cuts, Erskine Bowles, estate tax, home buying, home ownership, McMansions, mortgage interest tax deduction, Murph, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, social engineering, tax incentives, tax policy, urban sprawl |
By Mark | February 11, 2009
A few days ago, our old friend, the author Jim “Go Fuck Yourself” Kunstler indicated that he felt as though President Obama was under the mistaken impression that we as a country might be able to “grow” our way out of our current situation. The following clip comes from Kunstler’s site, Clusterfuck Nation: …The attempted […]
