Author: Matt (Page 18 of 41)
Normally I don’t even try to talk politics to conservative friends and family, or try to bring the subject on my blog. Not because I don’t value intelligent discussion, but because it usually takes all of 5 minutes for me to get so angry at people who refuse to see the other side of the coin that all I can do is sputter and froth a little at the mouth.
The past 2 days, I’ve been doing a lot of sputtering and frothing while watching the Republicans dance around the issues and build a facade of truthiness to an otherwise blinders-on-to-the-world point of view, and frankly, it makes me sick.
How about a little facts check, and if you have the time, read this. It’s written by someone who is more eloquent than my sputtering and frothing could ever be.
I decided this morning that if people can afford a new car on the salary of an empty bottle collector, I’m in the wrong freaking business.
Kudos for making it a whole 2 steps out of your car before picking around in the trash that’s been sitting out since last night – that should keep the stench out of your car for sure.
If you missed Obama’s speech last night at the DNC, you missed one of those where-were-you-when-history-happened moments.
Go ahead, watch it. I guarantee you’ll walk away feeling like you’ve just completed a 3 day health retreat that your kids bought you for your wedding anniversary and at first you were like ‘No way this is lame’, but then you got there and discovered a range of great services at your disposal and you completely vegged out and now you’re feeling a million bucks.
The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
And Christa thought SHE had it bad with my collection hogging up space in the basement. Check this dude out. Stick around and watch the whole thing, it’s well worth it.
I love my (little) record collection.
The Dequindre Cut is a sub-grade railroad corridor. Originally used to link commercial manufacturing in the early 19th century, The Cut was later used as a commuter rail traveling from Pontiac to the Ren Cen. In the decline of the 80’s, The Cut was tagged by graffiti artists and home to the homeless. Now the one mile stretch from the Riverwalk to Eastern Market is being revitalized for bikes, pedestrians, and (some key words here) future mass transit.