Organic food consumers are quite often anti-social jerks says psychologist

Yes they will.

Something I have suspected for a while now. Observing them at the Ann Arbor Whole Foods store as well as the People's Food Co-op this article confirms my experience with a lot of them. And make sure if you shop there to bring your own bags and containers for your purchases unless you want a big helping of sanctimonious snark thrown in too.

Some thoughts on people shooting their neighbor's dogs

That's how things are being reported over in countryside near here.  One dog had his ear shot off by a hunting arrow launched by an irate archer although it lived. Another dog was shot dead under more serious circumstances possibly justifiable.

It seems to me that you cannot even have a dog any more in these United States other than the little chi-chi dogs who are smaller than house cats, (and who barely even qualify as dogs in my opinion) these days without having to live in fear of lawsuits, complaints, and police citations, as well as the unabashed antipathy from many of your neighbors.

LA graffiti artists pissed because others defaced their art

No seriously. Some LA "street artists"painted a mural on the wall of a building and then some different people put their work over it. The nerve of some people, eh?
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Sign of the times, cont'd

Mental illness as political theater: A profile of Keith Olberman (David Carr, NY Times magazine)
Usually Olberman gets a stroke job from the mainstream media types at the Times. Not this time around though. Carr's piece makes him seem like a self-destructive basket case.

Sign of the times...

The colossal arrogance of politicians in "safe" districts. To wit: Washtenaw county (i.e.,Ann Arbor area) commissioner Jeff Irwin (D) is so sure of being elected to Michigan's 53rd state house of representatives seat that he blew off a scheduled debate with his opponents last night. Not refused to debate his opponents, but who scheduled one and then did a no-call, no-show style blow-off. What's does Jeff care? He's gonna win anyhow and he knows it. So what if he stiffs the League of Women Voters and the voters who did show? Ain't it great living in a one-party district? Sheesh. We might as well be living in a "kinder, gentler" version of North Korea.

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Schadenfreude alert! - Chronic Detroit bashing ESPN personality Jay Mariotti arrested for felony domestic abuse

Heh. So reports the LA Times and the alt sports blog DeadSpin. That jackass can't say the words "Detroit", "Michigan", "Michigan State" or any other college or pro sports team located in the Mitten State without spitting on the floor afterword. He wrote for the Detroit News in the early 80's and he seemed like a jerk even back then. Must have had a bad experience here that he has never been able to forgive or forget.

But any-who, to paraphrase an old Japanese saying: "If you sit by the (Huron) river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by." Heh. And I've been patient for thirty plus years. Now, Jay ain't "floating by" just yet, but this is just too good not to gloat about, methinks. See ya' in court Jay!