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Ex-Michigan QB Forcier lands at San Jose State (Michigan Daily)
A semi-talented young man who doesn't give a flying fook about getting a college education and who just wants to play football. Follow your bliss Tate, cuz life and youth are both short.

Robert Ettinger, cryonics pioneer dies at 92 and is frozen (Wikipedia)
He hoped to be revived later on. Ettinger wrote The Prospect of Immortality the original manifesto of the cryonics movement in 1962.

Linguists say they can "out" men impersonating women on Twitter (Slashdot)
About 65 percent of the time anyway.

How Los Angeles lost its mojo (New Geography)
"The machine that now controls Los Angeles by default consists of an alliance between labor and the political leadership of the Latino community, the area's largest ethnic population. But since politicians serve at the whim of labor interests, they seldom speak up for homeowners and small businesses."
Business hating environmentalists are the second edge to this double edged dagger.

Ypsilanti has a beer festival (Eastern Echo)
Who knew? I'd have gone if I had.

Detroit Metro-Times has a story about a Detroit area guy who left Motown to go to Hollywood and become a screen writer. Started out well but turned out to be tl:dnf for me. 

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Why a working-class led overthrow of this society won't happen any time soon -

"Rejection of the Welfare State on behalf of abstract ideas of freedom is hardly convincing. The loss of the economic and political liberties which were the real achievement of the preceding two centuries may seem slight damage in a state capable of making the administered life secure and comfortable. If the individuals are satisfied to the point of happiness with the goods and services handed down to them by the administration, why should they insist on different institutions for a different production of different goods and services? And if the individuals are pre-conditioned so that the satisfying goods also include thoughts, feelings, aspirations, why should they wish to think, feel, and imagine for themselves? True, the material and mental commodities offered may be bad, wasteful, rubbish – but Geist and knowledge are no telling arguments against satisfaction of needs."

Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man ,(1964)

PA Troopers raid bars looking for "unregistered" beer. - Philly.com
"Maida said that the State Police also confiscated bottles of Duvel, a popular ale imported from Belgium that is widely advertised and available in at least 200 bars throughout the city and suburbs. The beer appears on the PLCB list as 'Duvel Beer,' while its label reads 'Duvel Belgian Golden Ale' ". And that therefore makes Duvel un-registered in Pennsylvania. No shit.

Instapundit says that Washington losing the "consent of the people" to govern. - Washington Examiner (Glenn Reynolds)