Last Friday, my wife Anne C. Savage and I took a mental health break by putting our kayaks into Pickerel Lake northwest of Dexter, Michigan to drink some beer and check out the wildlife. You have probably already seen her remarkable photo of the newborn baby Canada Goose peering out from under the wing of her mother. This photo is […]

More good news for Michigan! Looks like President Obama will be back to make yet another Commencement address in June. Congratulations to Kalamazoo Central High School for winning the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge. This means President Obama will speak at their Commencement ceremony on June 10th at 7:00 p.m. Well done! Here’s the official White House press release: […]

Please Digg this blog entry HERE. Thanks! For those attending the 2010 Spring Commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan, the day started around 4 a.m. We arrived at the U of M football stadium, “The Big House” (capacity: 108,000), at 6 a.m. to pick up our press credentials. The rain started shortly thereafter and we spent the next three […]

Well, they did it. The teabaggers had a rally right smack in the middle of the University of Michigan campus, here in the heart of the Liberalville that is the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor. And can I just say this?: ho hum. Seriously. You take away the racist and homophobic and violent signs and what you have left is […]

Dave Franklin is running for the Michigan House of Representatives seat in Michigan’s 54th district, a seat currently held by Michigan gubernatorial candidate Alma Wheeler Smith. Dave Franklin hates him some government. And Dave Franklin especially hates him some Democratic Party grassroots organizers. Yesterday, on the Facebook page for a Tea Party protest on the campus of the University of […]

It’s masochism on my part, I suppose, but I have gotten on the email lists of the two leading GOP contenders who are seeking the nomination to challenge Congressman Mark Schauer (MI-07) this November. The leading leading contender is an odious man named Tim Walberg who held the position for only one term before being sent packing in 2008. His […]

Yesterday morning, Organizing for America (OFA) held an event at the Ann Arbor Community Center to thank Congressmen John Dingell (MI-15) and Mark Schauer (MI-07) for their leadership and votes on the recently-enacted health insurance reform law. The two men represent opposite ends of Congressional spectrum. Congressman Dingell has served longer than any current member of the House of Representatives. […]

Well, not MY newspaper but the Gannett paper in the town where I work (Howell), the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus. As I mentioned in my blog the other day (It’s not just FOX News, People), the Press & Argus is doing their damndest to promote the teabaggers. That day there were two articles about the teabaggers, one on […]

Click on the photo then click “View Large” for a larger version When President Obama signed into law of the health insurance reform law last week, the most historic piece of social legislation in decades, those on the right threw a fit. Some of them actually threw bricks. We, on the other hand, threw a damn party. A BIG party! […]

Michigan’s been in the news a LOT lately. From our governor forcing the Att. Gen. to intervene against himself to Militiamen Gone WildTM, things are a bit crazy. Now come the Howell Teabaggers: Starting Monday, Livingston County will be “ground zero” for an effort to place a proposal for Michigan to opt out of federal health-care law on the November […]

The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Michigan 7th District Congressman Mark Schauer received a threatening phone message on Thursday: Another Michigan congressman says he has received violent messages following his vote in favor of health care reform legislation. U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, said Thursday a caller from outside his district left a message saying, “I hope you […]