Credit unions are a better deal for most people than banks are

So says this article from Business Insider. I agree. But then I thought so before the Great Recession hit.

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Film producer Michael Moore explains a fucking thing or two to Rahm Emmanuel about autoworkers and their union over at the Daily Beast.

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Michigan politician advocates a look at starting up a state-owned commercial bank - Detroit News

It has worked for North Dakota since 1919. But Michigan politicians having "over-sight" over a money pot of billions of dollars (not to mention the cat-n-mouse regulatory game of keeping the pols' hands out of it as well) makes the whole enterprise seem kinda dubious to me, unfortunately. The concept is sound though. Kinda like a credit union for the whole state.

Vegetarian/vegan extremists resort to terrorism - Free The Animal blog (Richard Nickoley)

Sounds pretty harmless until you read the details and discover that the pie in question was loaded up with lots of powdered cayenne pepper and other items that sting and burn if they get in your eyes which a pie-in-the-face seems likely to do, no? Low life punks do stuff like this because they can't defend their opinions any other way. Lame.

Hard to believe this guy was ever on the Michigan Supreme Court - Front Porch Republic

Seems like a good guy. Writer, hunter, fisherman and naturalist.