On February 18, 2010, Organizing for America (OFA), Health Care for American NOW! (HCAN) and no less than THIRTY other organizations sponsored a CALL FOR ACTION rally in Madison Heights in southeastern Michigan calling for Congress to act now on jobs for Michigan. These sponsoring groups represent a broad coalition of interests including health care reform, peace, immigration reform, clean […]

To say that this has been a banner three days for Eclectablog would be an understatement. Since I posted my entry on Rachel Maddow on Sunday afternoon, this blog has had 6,883 hits. That’s a bit more than a quarter of all the traffic it’s gotten since I started it in July 2008. Nearly half of the traffic this blog […]

Rachel Maddow has been on FIRE this week. I’ve been a fan of hers since I started listening to her Air America podcasts three years ago. Smart. Funny. Brilliant. Incisive. Genius. Awesome. All of these words describe her well. When she’s on a panel, she’s the smartest person there. When she’s on the radio, she has no peer. When she’s […]

First he said this (in a Politico Op-ed in September ’09): Proud Americans, black and white, fought for too long and too hard to have the claim of racism be used in such a cavalier fashion. Blind charges of racism, where none exist, not only are an affront to those who have suffered the effects of racism, but it weakens […]

Meet Brian Rooney. Brian Rooney is running for the Republican nomination in MI-07 this year. He has only lived in Michigan since 2007 and he recently moved into MI-07 in order to run for this seat. His main Republican opponent, Tim Walberg, doesn’t have much nice to say about him: Walberg questioned if Rooney runs whether he can win over […]

Surely you know about the most-horrible Westboro Baptist Church and their most-horrible “God Hates Fags” protests. Wanna know how to effectively protest complete morans like this? You do it like this [location: San Francisco (of course)]: Photo by EDW Lynch Photo by EDW Lynch You can work anything into a Rick Roll, can’t you?Photo by LiveSoMa Here’s a coupla Twitter-related […]

This is actually a pretty big development in the discussion of Cap & Trade vs. Carbon Tax to rein in our country’s emissions of greenhouse gases. In a January 11, 2010 editorial in the American Chemical Society’s weekly magazine, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), Editor Rudy Baum has this to say: H.R. 2454, the 1,200-page climate-change and energy legislation passed […]

Yeah, so, well… Want to help me out? This is a big ask. Click on the image below and it will take you to bookrix.com where you can read and vote for my short story “Two North”. You will need to sign up for a (quick, free) membership to do it. Please click through and read the story before voting. […]

It’s all around you: digital images. They’re on the web. They’re in your magazines. They’re in your movies, killin ur d00dz. But one place they absolutely are not is in the photos produced by the awesome folks who make up the Ann Arbor Area Crappy Camera Club (A3C3). This past weekend, my lovely photog wife and I ventured over to […]

I have an iTunes playlist of over 250 Christmas/holiday songs and some of my favorites are what I consider to be “out of the ordinary” — songs you won’t likely hear on the radio. Below are some of my favorites along with a brief review of each. Enjoy and here’s wishing a very Happy Holiday season to all my friends! […]

More evidence that the GOP meme that the stimulus has failed comes this morning. From the Associated Press: The unemployment rate fell to 10 percent in November as employers cut the smallest number of jobs since the recession began. Clearly the Obama administration is failing the American people. Why? Because the unemployment rate didn’t get capped at 8% like he […]