This last weekend, while I was enjoying myself in Milwaukee, folks here in Ypsi had themselves a big shindig under the moonlight on the banks of the Huron River. This now annual event, as you might recall, got off to a wobbly start a few years back, when it attempted to get off the ground […]
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The abduction of Jambo Man
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged Andy Ypsilanti, Battle of Ypsitucky, Charlie Slick, Depot Town CDC, Diazotrophical Liberation Armada, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop statue, Jambo Man, Jmaes Osterberg, Manhole, Manhood, Michigan Roots Jamboree, music, music festivals, Patrick Elkins, Patty Hearst, puppetry, shadow puppets, SLA, Stanley the Mad Hatter, Wayang Kucing, Ypsi festivals, Ypsilanti cats, Ypsitucky, Ypsitucky Jamboree 89 Comments
“See, the Democrats are violent too!”
With the news that a mentally ill man in Pennsylvania had threatened the life of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, conservatives everywhere have begun jumping up and down, waiving their hands around wildly (imagine Arnold Horshack trying to get Mr. Kotter’s attention), and claiming that this definitively proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Democrats […]
Posted in History, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism Also tagged anti-globalization, anti-government, Arnold Horshack reference, Bill Ayers, Christian soldiers, constitutionalists, death threats, domestic terrorism, Eric Cantor, Eugene Robinson, Hutaree, militias, Norman Leboon, Oklahoma City, Patricia Hearst, political violence, potential for violence, rhetoric of violent revolution, tea party, teabaggers, teabaggery, the nonexistent leftist threat, Timothy McVeigh, violence, violence on the extreme right, white supremacist 40 Comments