See you on the radio I’ll be joining radio host Roger Taylor on WKZO AM 590 | FM96.5 tomorrow morning at 7:45 a.m. We’ll be talking about the travesty and embarrassment that is GOP House Speaker Jase Bolger (unless Roger changes the topic at the last minute like he did last time ;) You can listen live online HERE. Also, […]

Why does the 2012 election matter so much that I even find myself dreaming about the upcoming debates? I have a firm belief that we’re all in this together. By “we,” I mean all who choose to participate in this great American experiment. Every day I wonder: Will we lose incredible progress we’ve made in the last three years? Will […]

Imagine…

Hello, folks. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. As I mentioned on Tuesday, we’re having to upgrade to a more robust web host/server and that takes money so your contributions are very much appreciated.

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Imagine if Eclectablog were to go away. Think of the events that you wouldn’t find out about because, frankly, our mainstream media in this state is a bit of shambles. Think about missing the voice of LOLGOP and his perfect framing of the political messages of our day. Think about missing Anne’s fabulous photographs of people, places and things.

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The (dis)pleasure of being at Ground Zero (aka: Michigan) Tomorrow I’ll be doing interviews with Jim Dean, founder of Democracy for America (DFA), State Rep. Barb Byrum, and folks from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC). We’ll be talking about the petitions gathered by DFA & PCCC that were delivered to GOP House Speaker Jase Bolger this morning demanding an […]

Charlotte, here we come!

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Baby needs a new web server

So, yesterday, LOLGOP broke the internet. More accurately, he generated so much traffic at Eclectablog with his piece “Your Affordable Care Act Rebate Can Save Lives” that he overloaded the servers at our web hosting company and they shut us down for several hours. So, we need to upgrade and it’s going to cost about $600 per year to do that.

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It’s that time of the year again where we come to you, tip jar in hand, and ask you to support what we do here at Eclectablog. As most of you know, this is not a full-time gig for me, Anne and LOLGOP. It doesn’t even come close to paying the bills. We do these fundraisers to help offset our costs for equipment, travel, and fees for various things we do. In exchange, we bring you regularly updated content, insightful commentary, liveblogging, exclusive reporting and magnificent photography.

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The Republicans’ War on Women is … WOW …

My lovely and talented wife Anne has created a new War on Women graphic for Eclectablog.

Check it out after the jump.

Ahhh…so that’s how it all got started Long ago (August of last year) in a galaxy far, far away (here in Ann Arbor, Michigan), I wrote a piece for another website that has since gone down the memory hole. In that piece, I interviewed a rising twitter sensation that went by the name of Pete Nicely or LOLGOP. That interview […]

Whew! That was intense!

28 hours of driving and over four days of intense networking and progressive liberal immersion later, I’m finally catching my breath from Netroots Nation 2012. This year my wife and blogging partner Anne joined me and was a staff photographer for the event. She took over 5,000 photos and we’ll have photoblogs rolling out over the next few days.

Some of the highlights for me after the jump.

This is gonna be good

We have some news regarding on our Beer With Bloggers event. Several new folks have agreed to join us and it’s shaping up to be quite an impressive line-up. The plan was hatched back in February when Mark Maynard and I met for beers at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti. If you don’t know who Mark Maynard it, he’s only one of the best bloggers in the state of Michigan and you should totally be a regular reader of his website MarkMaynard.com.

The event takes place at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti, Michigan on Thursday, May 31, 2012 from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. More details about the evolution of this event HERE.

First, we have learned that…