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Another view of the "changing face of America" - ann arbor.com

School maintenance guy fired after 30 years for being white. As white people slip from majority to minority status over the next decade or so, look for stuff like this to get more and more commonplace and obscenely obvious.

A new sex text scandal emerging from the top levels of the Detroit PD - Detroit News

This is both funny and sad. Maybe Detroit needs to follow the lead of that city in California that also had a scandal-tainted police force and just disband the DPD completely and contract with the sheriff's office for police services. Seriously.

Flint area serial killer suspect is arrested - Detroit Free Press

Hmm...I hope so. Let's see the evidence though first.

On behalf of a grateful empire - KTVB-TV

Medal of Honor winner's widow can't afford the cost of attending the award ceremony in Virginia,

What American conservatives can learn from the anarchists - The American Conservative

What indeed?

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A really slimy hit-piece on Michigan Militia founder "Mark From Michigan" - Ann Arbor Observer
Presumably because Koernke wouldn't give the author's an interview they felt free to utterly trash him. Some grad student who cuts & pastes shit from the SPLC website is their main source of info on him. Now Koernke is kinda of a goof, but even this article, bad as it is, shows that he's mainly been the victim of law enforcement rather than a law breaker himself.
Let Fake States Fail: Anarchy as a Viable Solution to Artificial States - Let A Thousand Nations Bloom (Claudia Williamson)
The article refers to African nation-states but it could just as easily been referring to failed American city-states like Detroit, or their offshoots such as the public schools, road commissions and the rest of the numerous other lesser government entities here in Michigan that clearly meet the criteria of failed states. (Via STR)
Accused Russian sex-bomb sleeper agent is kinda cute, but... - LA Times
But not enough for me to go to jail forever for doing espionage so I could do her. I wonder who would be swept up into a honey trap with her as bait? No doubt some would.
Michigan's ''texting while driving" ban starts today - Oakland Press
Really just a new pretext for pulling people over and issue tickets it seems to me.

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Frans de Waal gives us some real "political science". - American Scientist

"My second reason is a bit more political. I can’t stand the many references to biology by conservatives in this country, especially by those who do not really believe in evolution. They use biology as a convenient justification for their policies, saying that since nature is based on a “struggle for life” we ought to build our societies around selfishness and competition. They read into nature what they want to, and I feel it is my task to point out that they got it all wrong."
Why Google keeps your data forever, tracks you with ads. - Ars Technica (Nate Anderson)

California Sea Lion killed for "eating too many salmon". - Sacramento Bee (Abby Haight)

The sea lion's gluttony pissed off some local fisherman and so he had to die. A few more have been marked for death for the same reason. Kinda sad.

Facebook Can Help You Ruin One Child's Life - io9 (Grame McMillan)

If this guy's page gets 1 million hits a baby gets named "Megatron".
Chile quake moved a city by three metres. - New Scientist (Richard Fischer)

“...just please sign your organ donor card.” - Scientific American (Steve Mirsky)

Some hilarious texting while driving anecdotes.
Revealing the Source of Ritalin's Brain Boosting Benefits - Technology Review (Emily Singer)

Debating the Nordic Consensus Culture - Telos (Rolf Hugoson)

A call to end the sale of CDS - Financial Times online (Wolfgang Munchau)

Putting an end to some of these speculative financial instruments that are so destructive is probably a good idea. Great idea actually.

Physicist Says Warp Speed Will Kill You - GearLog (Jamie Lendino)

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Nobel Peace Prize-winner Obama ups spending on nuclear weapons - Daily Mail [U.K.]
"The budget is higher than that allocated by George Bush – who was seen by many as a warmongering president in the wake of the Iraq invasion in 2003..." Who'd have thunk it?
Flexible Sheets Capture Energy from Movement - MIT Technology Review
Living out of your car in LA - LA Weekly
Some do it cuz they're homeless and some just like the nomadic lifestyle it allows.
Gary Kasparov On Chess Masters Versus Computers - A book review from the NY Review of Books
Pistol With Wireless Arming Signal Goes On Sale Soon - Wired
The pistol has ..." an electronic safety that automatically disables the pistol when it’s not within a few inches of a custom wristwatch."
Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown To Be Ineffective- International Business Times
Why People Ignore Their Voice Mail Alerts - Gizmodo