EMU regent blows off meetings for nearly two years: No surprise that he's a Granholm appointee too. EMU and the other regional universities have long been a dumping ground for lame patronage appointees of the incumbent governor.
Michigan jail inmates often unable (or unwilling) to pay "incarceration fees" to county jails: What a surprise! If these lumpen had any money they'd not likely be in jail in the first place. As the ACLU guy quoted in this Freep news story says this is just a way to keep people tethered to the criminal justice bureaucracy.
Blogger has Bill O'Reilly pegged: "O’Reilly is a self-important middle manager. If he sees you are 'above him' in stature, someone who makes him look good by being on the screen with him, he’s obsequious. If he sees you as beneath him, then he expects deference."
History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes: "Yet just as the Soviet communist bosses held on to power to the point of their self-destruction, the American oligarchies will squeeze the U.S. economy to its death. Is President Obama’s failure to bring any change yet another indication that change in America will only follow catastrophe?" Probably, yes.
