Death and a Donut. Every Memorial Day, our neighborhood association holds a parade. The weather, it seems, is always perfect, a high blue sky with a warm sun and a fresh breeze. For eight years, my daughters and I have walked the couple blocks to the same spot, sitting on the curb under a sugar
Ralph Nader encourages us to break through the power, and he believes we can do it. For more than fifty years, Ralph Nader has been a man on a mission. It was fifty years ago that the consumer advocate and erstwhile presidential candidate published his groundbreaking book, Unsafe at Any Speed. This http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/20/ralph-naders-democracy-crusadeweek, Nader celebrated
Left Is Right: Double-Thinking About Donald Trump. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them…” –George Orwell, 1984 Official American politics, the spectrum that runs from “ultra-liberal”
Now there is an agency rule that takes a bite out of mandatory arbitration clauses. And high time. Admit it. Sometimes, late at night, it’s just you and your laptop, and you get to feeling a little curious. Or maybe just bored. Either way, who hasn’t had the experience at least once of taking a
Arguments were heard in Detroit’s federal District Court in a lawsuit claiming that the State of Michigan and the City of Flint are moving too slowly to resolve Flint’s water crisis. Residents in the city are still using bottled water for drinking, cooking and bathing. Federal officials claim the water is safe to drink if
In a week or two the United States will take its official sobriety-and-stiletto style and a planeload of reporters to Hiroshima. It will be the first time a sitting president has visited that city rebuilt from the radioactive rubble that another president created. The only appropriate act for Barack Obama when he touches down would
On Tuesday, the threat of war with China heightened when the United States made its third incursion into Chinese-claimed waters in eight months, sending the guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence sailing within the 12-nautical-mile territorial zone surrounding Chinese-held Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea under the pretext of defending the principle of
President Barack Obama visited Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday and might as well have said, “Ricky, you’re doing a heckuva job.” Like George W. Bush’s belated visit to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Obama’s presence in Flint served two purposes. One was to provide a photo opportunity—caring president lifts local spirits in face of
Criminal charges brought in the Flint water scandal by Michigan’s attorney general name three state officials as defendants. Bill Schuette has charged two officials of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and Flint’s utilities manager with felonies and misdemeanors, among them misconduct in office and tampering with evidence. Schuette indicated that the indictments of
I have lived my entire life on every possible side of the Ohio State-Michigan college football rivalry, often cited as the greatest rivalry in sports. Through relocations and my admitted disdain for certain SEC-turned B1G (Big Ten) coaches, my loyalties have shifted through the years. I have always respected both programs, and I have made