Changing of the Guard in U.S. Senate for Michigan — Gary Peters Steps Up to Replace Levin
Michigan’s representation in the U.S. Senate is in for a big change in 2014. That’s when U.S. Sen. Carl Levin steps down after representing our state for six terms. The U.S. Senate is an exclusive club – only 100 members – and Carl Levin year after year has been considered one of the best of [...]
Dear One Term Rick: Playing Politics With Potholes
I’d hoped that my last article about funding road repair in Michigan had exhaustively covered the subject. It was time to move on and discuss other attributes of our current one term governor. Little did I know there was more to the story than I covered and thanks to the additional information from many of [...]
Dear One Term Rick: Fuhgetaboutit
If Missouri is the “Show Me” state, Michigan must be the “We’ll Believe Anything” state. I mean, we actually elected a man as governor who laid out absolutely no specifics on his vision of governing our state. Although he loved to proclaim himself a non-politician, he rolled out every vague platitude and aphorism about “strengthening [...]
Interpreting, Eisegesis, & Exegesis
The advent of digital communication has brought us incredible freedom to search, to access equally incredible archives.
Now, more than at any time in our histories, we need to pay careful attention to how prior work is interpreted. Not only technical or religious, but also things like political policy, art, and more. Eisegesis vs. Exegesis.
Obama or Romney? Uptown’s cookies will predict election outcome
Although not known to be politically active, the owners of Uptown Coffeehouse still know how to have fun with politics. Leading up to the 2008 election, Uptown Coffeehouse sold glazed sugar cookies in the shape of donkeys and elephants, asking their customers to “vote” for the party represented by each cookie. Customers had a lot [...]
Musings on a Village Presidency
My days as Pinckney Village President are winding down. Before I was appointed to fill a Trustee vacancy on Pinckney Village Council in December of 2003, it was not at all unusual for meetings to start at 7:30 PM and end at midnight, with half the agenda items deferred to some unspecified future date. It [...]
Why do media, candidates give us debates designed for fools and nitwits?
Oh, sure, I’ll watch the rest of the debates, but I can’t help but be insulted by how the politicians and media treat us as fools and idiots. Is it too much to expect that we have a halfway intelligent format for the presidential debates? Answer a complex question in two minutes? Can you imagine [...]
Former white supremacist
Coming just a few weeks after the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin feels like another blow to our country. Too much violence, too much hatred, and too many innocent people hurt. The thing that strikes me, though, is the way the news media manage to work in “former [...]
