THIS is astounding. Nearly half of all Americans lived in a household that received some kind of government benefit during the first three months of last year, the Wall Street Journal reports, based on new Census data. That’s even higher than the figure recorded during the depths of the Great Recession. I’m not rich by most people’s standards. I’m more […]

First is was Queen Hamsher declaring that Obama supporters are the “dumbest motherfuckers in the world”. Now there’s this douchebag. He’s Frank Beckman, a far-right radio news personality out of WJR in Detroit. It is revealing that President Barack Obama’s re-election supporters are embracing the disjointed complaints of the Occupy Wall Street crowd now that union members and the George […]

New Yorker Michael Trapp nearly found out the hard way that privatization can get you killed. Confusion by a Virginia-based controller and search operations coordinated by the U.S. Coast Guard in Cleveland are blamed in a report for delaying rescue efforts for a pilot who spent 18 hours in Lake Huron after his small plane crashed within sight of the […]

This sorta sums things up for me with regard to the Occupy Wall Street and other protests going on around the country at the moment. Not my photo, but so very perfect. Photo by Velcro Ripper You know things are messed up when librarians start marching. Protesting! It’s not just for hippies anymore!

Several hundred people gathered on The Diag at the University of Michigan last evening to organize for further protests in support of #OccupyWallStreet. It was a diverse crowd and may appear to some as being somewhat disorganized. But they are taking the right steps to move forward. People in orange shirts like this fine fellow collected names and contact information […]

Yesterday, Senate Majority Floor Leader Arlan Meekhof introduced SB 729. This bill makes Michigan a “Right to Work (for Less)” state BUT ONLY FOR TEACHERS. This is the concept first floated by Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville last month. To remind you, here’s a transcript from the Off the Record show where he first floated it: Tim Skubick: Right to […]

A fitting tribute to Steve Jobs by my wife.

Last night Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan held a beer-tasting fundraiser at Ann Arbor’s Arbor Brewing Company. I posted a few photos from the event HERE and there are many more below from my wife, Anne C. Savage. I had a chance to talk with Rene Greff, co-owner with her husband Matt, of Arbor Brewing Co. and the […]

I’ve had it in my mind for a couple of years now to write about Apple and its impact on the world in terms of creating wealth. With the death of the brilliant Steve Jobs, it seems an apropos to do it now. One of the things that has fascinated me about Jobs and the amazing company that he built […]

Lots of folks, lots of fun and lotsa beer! Protestor-free! Full house! State Rep. Jeff Irwin checking in Nom, nom, nom

I think Andy Cobb might juuu-uuust be on to something here. I’m just sayin’…