Cross-posted at the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. Yesterday was the BIG DAY for Michigan’s “Energy Citizens”! Yes, the giant groundswell of corporately-funded astroturf outrage at climate change legislation that would put a serious hurt on the profit statements of Big Oil concerns found its way into Livonia, Michigan. It was going to be big. At least that’s what […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. Last week I penned a Letter to the Editor to the Dexter Leader, my local newspaper and part of Heritage Newspapers. Heritage Newspapers is, from their webpage: ..an award winning publishing group that consists of 11-suburban publications (9 weekly, 1 twice-weekly and 1 tri-weekly publication) in southeastern Michigan with a circulation of over 316,850. […] […]

Headlines from the news media. Diaries at the Daily Kos. Chain emails from conservatives. From all of these fronts we’re getting the message “Barack Obama is losing the health care reform debate”. I say he’s NOT. Decidedly NOT. There’s been a sea change in the whole health care reform debate and I don’t think many of us have even noticed […]

Ping Tung EggplantsOriginally uploaded by acsavage Mrs. E (aka, my wife) knocks one out of the (photographic) park again. These are Ping Tung eggplants from our garden but what she sees in them and what I see in them are two entirely different things. An artist’s eye is a marvel to behold. Click the photo for a larger version. I’m […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. The USA Today is reporting that “thousands” of Americans are moving to Mexico to receive inexpensive health care: As the United States debates an overhaul of its health care system, thousands of American retirees in Mexico have quietly found a solution of their own, signing up for the health care plan run by the Mexican […]

Well, it’s been a cool, wet summer which is great for some things and not-so-great for others. We’re up to about 35 quarts of canned maters which is behind where we were last year but the cool weather has really slowed the ripening process (maters like HOT weather, for sure.) However, peppers (hot and sweet varieties) seem to be doing […]

Over at the Daily Kos, I have a semi-regular feature I do called Forays Into Freeperville where I highlight some of the brilliant inanity of a website called the Free Republic. The Free Republic is an ultra-conservative message board and the denizens of the site are some of the most vile and repugnant right wingers you’re likely to encounter anywhere. […]

Mrs. E and I spent all of last week in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We spent one night at the Blind Sucker Flooding State Forest Campground where we saw two bald eagles and a black bear. We spent three absolutely fabulous days backpacking on Grand Island, a National Recreation Area where we had a campsite right on the beach […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. This is a follow-up to my diary on Tuesday regarding defeated former U.S. Representative Tim Walberg holding town halls in Michigan in an apparent crass use of the health care debate to launch his 2010 bid to regain his House seat. Walberg listens to a supporter condemn health care reform Last […]

Sometimes cartoons ARE better at explaining things. This video by Andy Lubershane does a spectacular job of spelling out what I think should be the painfully obvious reasons why universal health care for Americans is the way we should be doing things. I’m just sayin’…

You just can’t make this shit up. Via Windy City Watch: llinois Republicans are a patriotic bunch. They start their meetings with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the nation’s unofficial loyalty oath. And so it was last week when Republican Party leaders met at a Springfield hotel prior to attending Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair. Republican […]