by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
A picture is worth a thousand words, the saying goes. Get a bunch of pictures together, and they tell a story.The Huffington Post has posted a slideshow of images depicting the decline of Detroit, Michigan, taken from the book The Ruins of Detroit, by Yves Marchand...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
Hey, everyone in the Rand Paul pile-on, make room for one more. I'm coming in for a landing! I shouldn't pick on the good doctor, though he makes it too easy. After all, his latest media train wrecks gave me a chance to resurrect a timeline of industrial disasters I...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
(If They Could Turn Back Time, Pt. 2) When I heard Rand Paul's statement about the civil rights act, I had a sense of deja vu. Not only that I'd heard them before, but that I run into the peculiar conservative phenomenon they represented: wanting have it both ways on...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
Imagine, if you will, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachman, and Sharron Angle — with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck on speakerphone — sitting down together with a copy of the constitution, and a red pen. For edits, of course. Now, open your eyes. And, if you're a...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
You hear it all the time, these days. Tea baggers, militia members and various other conservatives all that to "take their country back." My usual response was to ask just how far back they want to go. I used to think I knew. It turns out, I had my time...
