By Christine Sismondo
I used to tell people that I got interested in cocktails because my parents were into wine and it was my way of being a rebel. In comparison with cork-sniffing and vintage-cataloguing, quaffing cocktails seemed a lot more fun -- and a whole lot less...
Patrick O'Connor | Posted May 29, 2012
A blog I posted this March questioned the wisdom of President Obama's plan to lower the cost of college. Now that the Republican nominee is all but assured, it's time to assess Mitt Romney's education plan, which came out last week.
Where to begin?
Let's start with the...
Amy Weber | Posted May 27, 2012
Since we've launched the campaign for The Bully Chronicles last week, there have been at least five more suicides, including a 7-year-old Detroit boy who allegedly hanged himself. Bullying is suspected in each sad case. Even with bullying featured almost nightly in the news, on the...
Dylan Ratigan | Posted May 26, 2012
As our nation starts to draw down the wars overseas, over a million vets will be re-entering civilian life over the next five years -- one of the largest in our country's recent history.
This Memorial Day weekend, we are focusing on the next mission facing our war...
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted May 26, 2012
This Memorial Day weekend, we reflect upon what it really means to honor the memory of the men and women who fought for our country. We'll visit gravesites, observe moments of silence, hold parades and barbeques and celebrate the freedoms our soldiers provided -- all important gestures.
But as a...
Carolyn Scott | Posted May 25, 2012
Yippee! Summer is officially here! Beach time, pool lounging, road trips, movies and outdoor parties! Memorial Day marks the start of the "fun in the sun" season, so kick it off with an awesome get-together and killer food! Check out our fun menu of recipes below as well as some...
Chris Krapek | Posted May 25, 2012
I have a penis.
After several careful calculations, I think I've roughly seen it a few millions times in my life. I've never considered it to be that humorous. Penises, out of context, aren't inherently funny, are they? Situational penises can be funny, I guess. Shrinkage, sexual malfunction, size...
Marshall Fine | Posted May 25, 2012
If the same proportion of people in the United States saw The Avengers as the percentage of French citizens who have seen The Intouchables, the Marvel super-hero-fest would have grossed well over $1 billion domestically (instead of slightly less than half of that).
As it is, The Intouchables, opening in...
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted May 24, 2012
As The Hill reports, Mitt Romney is pledging to bring the unemployment rate below six percent by the end of his first term -- and of course in so pledging is once more sinking back to his default position of smearing President Obama:
"I can tell you that over...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted May 24, 2012
Whistling Past the Graveyard of Empires
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com
It’s the saddest reading around: the little announcements that dribble out of the Pentagon every day or two -- those terse, relatively uninformative death notices: rank; name; age; small town, suburb, or second-level city of...
Dominic Arellano | Posted May 24, 2012
Over the next few days, people from around the globe will fill Detroit and Hart Plaza for three days, taking over the city with many genres of electronic music. It's something that I have had the privilege to do every year since Movement started in 2000, back then know as...
Kelly Frazier | Posted May 24, 2012
The Martinez Brothers are a couple of the fresh young faces of electronic dance music these days. Growing up in the Bronx in New York, Chris and Steve Martinez were exposed to music very young, playing an array of instruments in and around...
Matthew Bode | Posted May 24, 2012
On occasion, on a day of exceptional clarity and humility, it is possible to see one's own holy judgment. It happens when I catch myself in a lie and again when I refuse to forgive someone who betrays me. But most recently it happened when a very slight, but very...
Andrew Stefanik | Posted May 24, 2012
After reading Adbusters call for an occupation of Wall Street on September 17, 2011, I felt compelled to document what at the time I thought would be a brief, but nonetheless credible, protest of big banks and corporate greed.
So, after returning home from class September 15, my roommate...
Lisa Bloom | Posted May 23, 2012
Graduation season is upon us, and with it all the speeches about shooting for the moon, going for the gold, nothing is impossible, yada yada. I myself have delivered three such college commencement addresses in recent years.
But as I've spent the last year crunching the numbers and talking...
Chris Barnes | Posted May 25, 2012
With Memorial Day this weekend, many of us will be firing up their grills for the first time this summer. Although grilling in some ways can be easier to clean up afterwards than kitchen cooking, a grill involves special care. Regardless if you have a gas or charcoal grill, here...
Matthew David Hopkins | Posted May 23, 2012
Want to throw the party of the season, but feel fresh out of ideas? With Memorial Day this weekend and many more reasons to celebrate this summer, try my "perfectly imperfect" approach to entertaining and your guests will remember your celebration for years to come.
Here are my 4...
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted May 22, 2012
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu said that every battle is won before it is fought. The Republican Party wants to prevent the battle from happening at all. It's very shrewd and it's totally un-American.
In November, five million eligible voters will find it harder to exercise their rights...
Jed Kolko | Posted May 22, 2012
Each month Trulia's Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to "normal." We summarize three key housing market indicators: new construction starts (Census), existing-home sales (NAR) and the delinquency-plus-foreclosure rate (LPS First Look). For each indicator, we compare this month's...
Gary A. Brown | Posted May 22, 2012
The crime facing Detroit is not insurmountable and it's untruthful to say that it's citywide.
I don't need to use this space to rehash the crime that has led to this point. It is reported everyday in the news; however, what is often not reported is the opportunity to proactively...
Zester Daily | Posted May 29, 2012