This farce has gone on long enough. The damage this mayor is doing goes beyond Detroit, affecting the reputation and stature of the entire state. Governor Granholm, remove the mayor now.
Mr. White, testified that he suffered a fractured hip after being shoved into his partner by Mr. Kilpatrick, who played football in college. Mr. White [...]
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Seriously, this is what Rupert Murdoch is going to do to the Wall Street Journal?
But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique [...]
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Since I talked about it before, and a CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE EVOLUTIONARY APPARATUS DIRECTIVE exists, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point of that Expelled has a new counter-site aggregating the awful reviews and accounts for and about the movie.
Oh, and Overcompensating has good comic up today as well.
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Slight backstory: There is a movie currently being screened for very select crowds called EXPELLED!, hosted by Ben Stein. It is, essentially, creationist propaganda about how colleges and universities are evil for promoting science and not religious dogma in their classes (here’s a trailer, if you have 8 minutes to sacrifice). It has, predictably, come [...]
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Damn it, is there anything Ann Arbor can do right? Cool business? Check. Favorite place at which townies and student alike hang out? Check. Greedy-assed landlords pricing out successful 10-year-old business? Double-check.
Straight from Todd, Leopold’s is gone by this summer. Thanks a lot as-yet-unnamed landlord; you’ve made Ann Arbor a little more soulless than before, [...]
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