This week Michigan Liberal blog publisher, and friend of Lift Bridges and Mine Shafts, Eric Baerren published a story about the energy of protesters trying to capture some lighting last week in Lansing. The piece is over at Mt. Pleasant’s Morning Sun. I recommend watching the video and reading the article. Meanwhile, Benevolent Overlord Rick “Michigan” Snyder & [...]
Mine Shaft award today goes to Matt, who wants to bring to the State House his strange beliefs about our environment. If Matt were simply naive I’d not pick on him, except he won the GOP nomination to represent our part of the U.P. in the Michigan State House of Representatives. He accepts GOP big [...]
The Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi delivers a colorful close-up of tea party people and describes what fuels their objections. He points to the range of opposition to government, including a mass of floppy white people blind to logic or reason angrily driving their fleet of government -funded scooters to the polls to vote against government. He [...]
Update: After this post, the letter was published by the Daily Mining Gazette In case the Daily Mining Gazette decides not to publish my letter to the editor before this Friday (September 24) I wanted to give people a heads up about the only real forum scheduled in the Houghton County area before the election, [...]
Our community is fortunate to have a treasure in our midst: the Portage Lake District Library. It’s a place where you and your family can borrow books, CDs and DVDs, where you can use a computer and access the Internet for free. It’s a place where you can find out almost anything, using free databases [...]
A response to the Tea Party rally in Houghton this past Saturday: I know for a fact that some of the Tea Party supporters are Christian church members. It is hard to understand how they can be so against Obama’s attempts to help people with no insurance. If they follow Christ’s teachings they can find [...]
Not according to Harriet Fraad, who articulates five factors that interacted to pull Americans away from one another and away from socialization. Drawing on Robert Putnam’s book “Bowling Alone,” she describes not only how the social culture in America has dramatically declined but describes the context to make it so. Highly recommended read. Here is [...]
Here’s a glimpse from our friends over at Progress Michigan: Update: See some photos taken by WizardKitten at Blogging for Michigan.
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