Andrew Heller also recently stated the following:
“I also think a clean, safe, well-lit downtown with closely clustered shops, restaurants and pubs that stay open past 5 p.m. would be cool.
But that’s about where my creativity ends. If Flint suddenly is going to become a cool place to live, don’t you think we ought to have a better idea of exactly what cool is?
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From the Flint Journal:
Maybe it’s time to hug Mike Moore
Sunday, June 13, 2004
By Andrew Heller
Journal Columnist
“Letter to the editor writer Vagios Young brought up an intriguing question last week: How long before people in Flint forgive Michael Moore?
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The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | High |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Low |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Moderate |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Moderate |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Very High |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Moderate |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Very Low |
Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test
“The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy.
… Read the restI’ve been brushing up on my ancient history for work on Euphemism and found this little bit interesting/amusing:
… Read the restAnother serious mistake committed by historians who were born inthe comfortable sense of European superiority over backward Asiatics has been to assert that the Indo-Europeans had remarkable capacities for civilization and, wherever they went, impelled a great advance.
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Check out Detroitblogs “Nine Lives” post… from Friday 6/4/04.
It’s one of the craziest UE stories I’ve heard lately.
~ Connor
… Read the restUrban Explorers Beware Read More »
I really hated them…
by Glenn McCoy
image acquired via the New York Times
by Pat Oliphant
image acquired via the New York Times
…the 1980s…
by Tom Toles
image acquired via the New York Times
I was two years old when Reagan was elected and ten when his presidency ended.
… Read the restKicking the gipper while he’s down. Or am I? Read More »
Your choice boils down to these…
Heiroglyphics or Cuneform?
Khufu or Hammurapi?
Medicine or Astronomy?
Memphis or Babylon?
Villages or Cities?
Set or Gilgamesh?
Nile Delta or Fertile Crescent?
Pharoahs or Lugals?
Pyramids or Ziggaruts?
Choose wisely.
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There’s a pretty intense discussion going on at Ashley’s LiveJournal about the draft.
We all started out panning the notion of a random draft, but ended up debating what was better: no draft or universal draft (ie. everybody).
I support a universal draft.
In Support of a Universal Draft Read More »
Downsized. Let Go. Laid Off.
The good news is that they’re saying I did a fabulous job and they feel really bad about it.
Apparently the cost of the malpractice suits just overwhelmed their ability to budget a file clerk.