Detroit: Coming Your Way
Sunday potluck with the extended family. It turns out I am the ‘Detroit’ of the family; the lost age of promise still lingers in the wreckage. Detroit was the place that epitomized the whole “American Dream†sales pitch, where anybody could scrape up a second...David Stockman is Right, and We Should Probably Be Afraid
Former Michigan Congressman and Reagan Budget Director David Stockman’s new book “The Great Deformation†provoked a flurry of insult and ridicule when it first came out back in April. I’m late to the party because as a law school graduate I spend all of my...Independence… An Illusion?
I bring you Independence Day greetings, intentionally a day late. I hope that your celebration yesterday was everything you hoped it would be! I say intentional because I didn’t want to spoil yesterday’s festivities with the rant you are about to endure....South Carolina Republicans Embarrass GOP
Last Week Steven Colbert said the results of Tuesday’s special election to fill a South Carolina House seat ‘scared him to his core’—I couldn’t agree more. Of course he was referring to disgraced Republican Governor Mark Sanford completing his political...The Conflict of the Generations
A recent story from CNBC is claiming that young job seekers are flunking job interviews because they don’t know enough to avoid sending text messages during the actual interview. Personally I think that the story was largely propaganda to cover up the dreadful...Stay in Touch
