As Rachel Maddow so clearly stated during her show last Friday, there’s a whole lotta makin’ shit up goin’ on out there. Yes, a great deal of it is coming from the FOX News machine. But not all of it. All you have to do is to look at the local newspapers across the country to see that. Today’s edition […]

If only all high schools could be this awesome. When the odious Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) ghouls announced they were going to picket Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California because it is too tolerant of gay students, the students, teachers, administrators and parents responded by drowning out their hate with powerful statements of love, acceptance and embracing of diversity. […]

Spring came early to southern Michigan this year so on Good Friday, my wife, Anne, and I put our kayaks in the Huron River and set out to document the effects of global climate change on the wildlife of our area. What we found was both stunning and shocking. All photos by Anne C. Savage (except this one of her.)Please […]

That’s the headline at MSNBC: HEADLINE: It’s official: Obama is blackPresident checks black, not black and white, on census form The White House confirmed Friday that Obama did not check multiple boxes on his U.S. Census form, or choose the option that allows him to elaborate on his racial heritage. He ticked the box that says “Black, African Am., or […]

A month ago, I blogged about how proud — really proud — Brian Rooney, candidate for the GOP nomination in MI-07, was that he had received the endorsement of far-right wingnut Erick Erickson. This week, Erick Erickson said on his radio show that he would threaten census workers who came on his property to ask him questions with a gun. […]

It’s working out just fine for me, thank you very much. The American economy added 162,000 jobs in March, offering some hope that the labor market, after shedding millions of jobs during the recession, has reached a turning point… The pace of job growth in March was the best in three years. Suck it, Palin. I’m just sayin’…

File this one in the “Are you effing KIDDING me???!” folder: The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a return number that leads to a phone-sex line offering “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute.” At the bottom of a piece designed to […]

You know you want one. Well, I know I do anyway. I’m just sayin’…

Click on the photo then click “View Large” for a larger version When President Obama signed into law of the health insurance reform law last week, the most historic piece of social legislation in decades, those on the right threw a fit. Some of them actually threw bricks. We, on the other hand, threw a damn party. A BIG party! […]

Gotta love this. Tim Walberg, one-term Congressman from Michigan’s 7th district is bragging — dude, BRAGGING — that Michele Bachman and Joe Wilson want him back in Congress. From his latest ridiculous email: As a note, I was in Washington D.C. for a few days last week garnering more support for our campaign and meeting with former colleagues. Among conservatives […]

Michigan’s been in the news a LOT lately. From our governor forcing the Att. Gen. to intervene against himself to Militiamen Gone WildTM, things are a bit crazy. Now come the Howell Teabaggers: Starting Monday, Livingston County will be “ground zero” for an effort to place a proposal for Michigan to opt out of federal health-care law on the November […]