I was pretty bummed at the Michigan Hockey Team Bill Sauer over our loss in the Frozen Four, but recent events have at least lightened my mood. It could be worse, we could have a hockey team full of these guys:

An important lesson taught to us by XKCD:

XKCD captures one of my deepest fears:

Nate Stano over at The Michigan Review writes an article with a good lesson: live within your means, and don’t expect for the government to magically come to the rescue in hard times. But the path that he takes to arrive at this conclusion is ponderous:
“My argument here is…First, we must realize that this government […]

While today, March 4th, marks Super Mega Ultra Elephantine Tuesday Part Deux, this also marks the 4 year anniversary of the first use of internet voting for a binding general election, in Estonia no less. And while there are numerous security concerns with the use of supposedly secure internet voting systems, let’s not forget that […]

This is a totally uninformed opinion of mine based on a pretty general observation of political trends, but it seems like ballot initiatives are rarely a good thing. In theory, direct democracy is appealing, but too often we see the system for initiatives getting abused by special interests or a way to circumvent our government’s […]

A couple of thoughts . . .
Here’s an addendum to my post from last week. Ann Friedman wrote an interesting piece for Alternet about the gender gap among progressive editorial staffs. It’s pretty clear looking at the statistics that a large chunk of the population is absent from the editorial process. Of the 11 publications, […]