Happy Labor Day again, you Socialist sons of bitches!
I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I wrote a couple of years ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today. As some of you probably know,...
View ArticleThomas Friedman to America: “We can’t learn anything from China”
Generally speaking, I don’t consider myself a huge Thomas Friedman fan. I caught a minute of him speaking on MSNBC this morning, though, and what he said really blew me away. It was extremely simple,...
View ArticleRolling back the minimum wage and child labor laws in order to help the poor
Remember when, not too long ago, Michele Bachmann said, “If we took away the minimum wage—if conceivably it was gone—we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely“? Well, not one to...
View ArticleBob Sloan on the new slavery of the American prison factory system
When I flew into Providence a few weeks ago, to attend the Netroots Nation conference, I caught a taxi from the airport to the hotel with a fellow by the name of Bob Sloan. Bob, like me, had won one of...
View ArticleRaising the minimum wage in Michigan is the right thing to do
At the end of last week, Democrats in Lansing, led by State Senator Bert Johnson, proposed that we increase Michigan’s minimum wage to $10 an hour, from $7.40, where it’s been set for the past five...
View ArticleAs it’s become impossible to pass laws in Congress due to Republican...
Last night, Zingerman’s co-founder Paul Saginaw and I met up for a late dinner at Dalat to discuss the various campaigns being waged across the country right now to raise the minimum wage, and how it...
View ArticleZingerman’s founder Paul Saginaw on his time with Obama, the importance of...
Early last winter, when the National Restaurant Association issued a formal statement about how raising the minimum wage would kill their industry, Paul Saginaw, one of the co-founders of Ann Arbor’s...
View ArticleI feel bad for America, but I have to admit I do take some pleasure in...
To my knowledge, Eric Cantor’s primary loss yesterday to Tea Party challenger David Brat was unprecedented in the modern era. House majority leaders just don’t lose primaries. But that’s exactly what...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren outlines the fight ahead for Progressives at Netroots Nation...
One of my favorite people in the whole world, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, dropped by the Netroots Nation conference yesterday in Detroit to talk about banking reform, the threat of...
View ArticleAll our Heroes are Probably Assholes: Tom Morello edition
By the time Rage Against the Machine came on the scene, I’d already stopped listening to contemporary music, so it didn’t break my heart today when I learned that the band’s frontman, Tom Morello, may...
View ArticleI am disappointed in you, my fellow Michiganders
The people of Michigan had their chance yesterday to remove Rick Snyder and his administration from office. And, much to my surprise, they chose to given him four more years instead.I would have...
View ArticlePaul Saginaw reminisces about his uncle “Chickie” the bookie, Stef Chura...
Any lingering doubts that I might have had about this past weekend’s show faded away five minutes before we went live, when local historian James Mann barged into the AM 1700 studio demanding that I...
View ArticleMayor Amanda Edmonds, Sheriff Jerry Clayton, Superintendent Ben Edmondson,...
This weekend on the Saturday Six Pack we’ll be discussing Ypsilanti’s recent wave of teen violence with Mayor Amanda Edmonds, Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton, Superintendent of Ypsilanti...
View ArticleOne wonders what the situation in Michigan might be like today if Rick Snyder...
Along with a lot of my social media friends, I spent a good deal of this evening reading and thinking about an article in The Atlantic titled The Miracle of Minneapolis, about how the 14th-largest...
View ArticleWhy’s the internet turning on Jake Croman?
I’m fascinated by the evolution of frontier justice in the digital age. Whenever there’s a story of someone being turned on by the internet, I’m completely captivated. Regardless of whether or not...
View ArticleWe should have stopped Betsy DeVos when we had the chance
On behalf of the people of Michigan, I apologize… Not only were we one of three states credited with making Donald Trump, the least qualified presidential candidate in American history, our...
View ArticleThe battle over plastic bags in Michigan is about more than just plastic...
A few days ago, Michigan Republicans made national headlines for passing a ban on the banning of plastic bags… And, yes, you read that right. They didn’t pass a law banning plastic bags, but they...
View ArticleRegister to vote. Time is running out. And this is fucking important.
The deadline to get yourself registered to vote here in Michigan is Tuesday the 9th. So, if you’re not already registered, or know people who aren’t, you’ve still got a few days… I was going to say, if...
View ArticleMichigan Republicans attempt a naked, lame duck power grab in advance of...
The Democrats, as you know, made huge gains across the midwest during this past midterm election. States like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, that had helped put Donald Trump in the White...
View ArticleSnyder signs SB 1171 and SB 1175 into law, fucking Michigan workers, and once...
I know I should probably be writing about something a little more in my wheelhouse this evening, like Stephen Miller’s spray-on hair, or the fact that Ivanka Trump could very well end up being...
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