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Last sold in 2007 for a mere $500k too

Ex-Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez puts house up for sale (Cindy Heflin, annarbor.com)
Asking price: $1.9 million.

Mother Jones writer arranges for her own beating and rape (Mac McClelland, GoodMedia.com)
Not because she's kinky but for therapeutic purposes.

The pernicious "perp walk" (Gene Healy, reason.com/)
"The 'perp walk'—in which suspects are ritually displayed to the media, trussed up like a hunter’s kill—has become common practice among prosecutors. But it’s a practice any country devoted to the rule of law should reject."

How Apple controls the component market (CNN Money)
Big money and strict contractual agreements. The usual stuff of monopoly capitalism. But an interesting read nonetheless.

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The cop, the beggar, the firemen, and the vet all meet on the side of the road in Detroit (Neal Rubin, Det News)

"The officer's name is on the citation. His initials are P.J. and his badge number is in the low 800s, and the department can find him if it cares to. The Office of Public Information didn't return a call, but what could a spokesman say? It's OK to shout amplified profanities at a harmless, armless citizen in a public place?"

Ex-Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez ripped to shreds by NYC sports writer (Phil Mushnick, NY Post)
"Big-time coaches who fall, regardless of why, are 'taken care of' by TV. They're hired as analysts, hired for their 'expertise,' though their expertise on exactly what it takes to succeed is left unspoken."

Detroit Neighborhood: U.S. Rep. John Conyers' home is an eyesore (Charlie LeDuff, WJBK-TV) video
Conyers has lived in D.C. since 1967. This dump is just a pro forma thing. Just sayin'.

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University of Michigan fires football coach Rich Rodriguez - Ann Arbor.com/
'Detroit 1-8-7' ratings drop again - Detroit News
Anyone from Detroit who watched this show would never recognize the city they portray as Detroit. I didn't.
Nature Conservancy and Notre Dame "...scientists repeatedly found evidence that bighead and silver carp were past the barriers at Lockport, Ill., and were very near Lake Michigan, if not already in it." 
- Det Free Press
Detroit images from Detroit Metro Times on Flickr - Good stuff.
A vaccine against the effects of cocaine?  - io9
That's what is claimed anyhow.
Ex-Clintonista lobbyist Lanny Davis is an amoral, greedy scumbag - The Nation (Bob Scheer)
It ain't just the Reps who are arrogant, crooked weasels.