My wife and I attended the Occupy Lansing demonstration at Michigan’s state capitol building on the 15th of this month. It was remarkable for the intelligence and civility on display. Contrary to the criticism of some writers in the Lansing State Journal, that this demonstration and its Occupy Wall Street counterparts in other cities are without [...]
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The Challenge of Occupy Lansing
October 16th, 2011 · No Comments · law, Politics and Social Issues
Tags:Banking·Corporate Greed·dissent·dissentdecree·law·Occupy·Occupy Lansing·Occupy Wall Street·outrage·politics
A Legal Mind-set
July 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Editorial, law, media, Politics and Social Issues
Recent articles in the Lansing State Journal told of lawsuits filed by Cooley Law School against a New York law firm and several bloggers. Cooley says it is defending its reputation in light of allegations that it has an excessive number of students defaulting on their student loans, an unusually high dropout rate and that it has [...]
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Peace, Love, Lock and Load
August 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art, Editorial, Images, law, Politics and Social Issues
Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, this July (2010), signed the so called “gun-in-church” law. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune the governor signed House Bill 1272 which allows Louisiana citizens, holding concealed weapons permits, to carry loaded weapons into churches, mosques and synagogues. No doubt this will help them reflect upon peace, love and the [...]
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The Daily Demo
June 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Editorial, media, Politics and Social Issues
From my office window I can see Michigan’s State Capitol building. On most workdays, during the spring and summer, there are organized demonstrations on the capitol lawn, each addressing a particular issue or grievance. Today’s demonstration (24 June 2010) was huge. It was the Michigan Education Association and they were well organized—several thousand of them [...]
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Hell is a Freeway
July 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Editorial, Politics and Social Issues
Dante was wrong. Hell is a morass of lanes and ramps, of mesas, plains and canyons of concrete, where millions of of steel and fiberglass capsules hurtle at, around and sometimes into each other at speeds exceeding 70 miles per hour. These vehicles are aimed and guided by all kinds of drivers including the: halt, [...]
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