Mission America's Linda Harvey: "Oppose unions in order to stop the...
She's back!The deranged homophobic (and also apparently anti-unionization) zealot founder of Mission: America, Linda Harvey, is encouraging her Religious Right supporters to make Ohio a "Right To Work...
View ArticleOccupy Steubenville - Support the Victim
New details emerging from Steubenville are still vague and uncomfirmed. See The Steubenville Gang Rape for details on what happened in this horrific case as we know them right now. New accusations are...
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The Inexplicable Magnetism of an Abandoned House
It's not uncommon these days, if you live in a city, to see vacant houses. The foreclosure crisis has touched so many urban properties, depending upon what city, and what neighborhood, you live in. I...
View ArticleJust Another Murder with a Gun
Several hours ago, I was going through a typical, overworked Manhattanite's routine of work, Downton Abbey, and Facebook, when I noticed a status update from my niece in Akron, OH. She is a beautiful...
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The Importance of Learning
One of my most treasured values is my love of learning. Learning is something that impacts nearly every facet of my existence every day. I am constantly learning new things, or...
View ArticleCleveland-area family's tap water is flammable
A few days ago, Jason and Debby Kline got an unpleasant surprise. The tap water in their home in Garrettsville, Ohio--south of Cleveland--is flammable.It started just weeks ago, when they noticed...
View ArticleTesting water and building community
An effort to partially cover what state regulators have not is evolving into something more.Cross posted from Pruning Shears.
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Republicans STOLE the House! Here's What YOU Can DO to Fight Back!
By now you've probably heard that last November, American voters chose to give Democrats control of the presidency and both chambers of congress in this past election. Wait, both chambers? No,...
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Racism in America: Senseless Prejudice Alive in the Modern World
Racism one of the more nonsensical attitudes held by a great portion of the human race. Can you imagine a world in which a golden retriever hated black Labs? That is precisely how ridiculous...
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Ohio Board of Education president totally not comparing Obama to Hitler, she...
We need more guns around because if you think otherwise, you're kinda like Hitler. That seems to be the message the gun fetishist crowd has coalesced around, because logic is for suckers:[Ohio] State...
View ArticleHow To Stop The GOP's Electoral College Scheme: The National Popular Vote
As most here know, the national Republican party has now officially endorsed a scheme to make it all but impossible for a Democrat to win the White House, by splitting up the electoral votes of states...
View ArticleSo, What Are We Going To Do About This?
For the past two nights, I have seen on MSNBC that my state (Michigan) and a number of other states that voted for Obama in both 2008 and 2012, are planning on stacking the deck in favor of the...
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Months after blaming layoffs on Obama, it looks like Murray Coal is rehiring
Remember Murray Coal CEO Bob Murray? If you remember the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse or the miners forced to lose pay to go to a Romney event or the mine owner who claimed Obama's reelection caused...
View ArticleWBNS-TV's Jim Heath comes out in opposition to the GOP's plan to rig the...
Jim Heath, a political reporter for WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, actually spoke out in opposition to a plan coordinated by Republicans in swing states with Republican-gerrymandered...
View ArticleGOP Electoral College Pranksters
So, how crazy is the GOP Scheme to re-jigger the electoral college a la gerrymandered congressional districts? It's like Rupert Murdoch buying People Magazine and ordering his editors to select the...
View ArticlePast Election Rigger Crawls From the Slime
There has been a lot of discussion here about the scheme being floated by Republicans to change the way electoral votes are allocated, distributing them by congressional districts — but only a swing...
View ArticleCongressmen Supporting Fracked Gas Exports Took $11.5 Million From Big Oil,...
On Jan. 25, 110 members of the U.S. House of Representatives - 94 Republicans and 16 Democrats - signed a letter urging Energy Secretary Steven Chu to approve expanded exports of liquified natural gas...
View ArticleBREAKING: Ohio & Michigan legislatures Rule Out electoral vote changes
Today both Ohio and Michigan state legislators have ruled out changing the electoral votes. OHIO:http://www.cleveland.com/...Spokesmen for Gov. John Kasich, State Senate President Keith Faber and...
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Ohio Gov. Kasich: Opponents of liquor profit privatization will answer to God
Sinners in the hands of an angry John Kasich? The far right often invokes God to back up its social issues agenda—marriage equality, abortion, women expecting to be treated as full citizens. It's less...
View Article(Part 4 of 5) 50 Snarky Suggestions for Improved State License Plate Nicknames
Have you ever questioned just how real and accurate those state nicknames and sayings are on our state license plates? Have you ever wished that they more honestly reflected the persona and personality...
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