Attention media big-shots: You can put a show on cable but you can't make us watch it

Ex-Michigan governor Jenny Granholm has a temp talk show gig on Al Gore's Current TV channel now through November 2012 it has been announced.

"The premise [of her show]" says Detroit News columnist Laura Berman, "is that Granholm's inside knowledge of campaign strategy and communications will enable her to provide insights into the process — and the mayhem — that aren't easily understood from outside."

Whatever. As a hugely disappointing two-term Michigan governor and recent migrant to California I seriously doubt that Granholm has that much "insight" to offer viewers on national politics and I fully expect that the ratings she gets will reflect that. The Gore Channel must be really, truly, hard-up for media personalities if they're taking her on, even as a temp.

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So long Suckers!

Ex-governor Granholm moves back to California - To teach at UC Berkeley. She'll share her knowledge and wisdom about how to run a state government. If you Google her bio California is her home state, not Michigan. She only moved to here in 1990.

From the Land of the Magna Carta: Filming Muslim proselytizers in Jolly Old England earns you  a loud, angry death threat delivered in broad daylight on a public street in front of a policeman to no consequence. Religious zealots fear nothing apparently. Christians did the same thing in a Muslim neighborhood in Dearborn recently. The police arrested them though.

No one will sell sodium thiopental to American states for use in executions: Hmm...sounds like a "business opportunity" for someone out there.

Just a few weeks' worth of light meditation can change the structure of your brain: Exercises for your brain.

The Mexican revolution of 1910-1920: Nothing at all like the one that's going on there now, unfortunately.

Kalamazoo is a "pinnacle of educational achievement in Michigan" says NG blogger: Well yes, but as the blog post mentions, having a group of "anonymous millionaires" foot the bill for the post-secondary education of all Kazoo high-school grads sure does help though, doesn't it? Still it's good news of sorts.

The class-warfare aspect of the immigration debate: "Opponents could be dismissed instead of debated with. After all, who are you going to believe in a political debate, a truck-driver or a professor?" And who is going to be hurt more by the immigration of a vast underclass of low or unskilled workers? Professors, media stars, big-shot lawyers, and transnational corporations or factory workers, carpenters or secretaries? [emphasis added]

Would we be safer if people were required to report odd behavior or signs of mental illness to the state?
"In short, [William] Galston wants a system that compels Americans to keep a close eye on their odd relatives, friends, neighbors, students, and employees, reporting them to the authorities when their strange ideas escalate into 'a delusional loss of contact with reality.' That distinction may prove hard to draw."