http://www.a2politico.com Ann Arbor politics grilled to perfection. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:57:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Creating More Job Announcements Than Real Jobs": I couldn't have said it better myself. Oops, I did. And well before the conservative-leaning folks at the Mackinaw Center, and editors at the Lansing State Journal decided to jump on the bandwagon and actually wonder out loud how in the names of Charles ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4229 It was recently revealed that a certain German Fuhrer was of Jewish and African heritage. To read the piece from Time magazine, click here. To ponder the monstrous nature of the revelation, click nowhere. Just sit there. On August 1, 2010 in a piece posted to AnnArbor.com, John Hieftje said,  "I think it's [the opposition] ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4222 For some reason, I am forever mixing up Memorial Day with Labor Day. It's kind of like mixing up the Gabor sisters, Eva and Zsa Zsa. Which one played Lisa on "Green Acres?" Anyway, I'm at a baseball game with the tater tots. It's the last regular season game of my ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4237 I wanted to finish out the week by reflecting a bit on the past year blogging as A2Politico. First, I'll thank all who read the blog regularly. When I am remiss in posting, it's not uncommon to field emails and Facebook messages from readers tapping their feet, electronically. "Wassup? Where's ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4199 Ben Quayle, a 33-year-old lawyer who is running for Congress in Arizona, has revealed that he used to contribute to a website about nightlife in the Arizona city of Scottsdale. Quayle's comments are said to have included lines such as "My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4118 I was asked recently to blog about Michigan's national political scene for the Huffington Post. For those who don't read it, HuffPo was founded by Arianna Huffington and is a liberal/progressive news website and aggregated blog. The site gets about 1,000,000 comments per month. I came home from vacation to an ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4103 I like Constance Crump's thoughtful writing. I particularly like writers who, with a simple question, can get me all tangled up in trying to figure out the answer. I first read Crump's blog post a few days ago. Initially, I didn't get hooked. Who cares if Austin has music, Sundance ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4116 I paddle my kayak regularly from Bandemer Park, the site of a Punk Week gathering that made big news in this town of ours. I wasn't there the afternoon the Ann Arbor Police Department car responded and the officer found himself out-numbered. Of course, given the fact that there are ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4075 This piece, below my comments, comes from Salon. I thought Alyssa Battistoni's perspective was refreshing, and her look at backdoor privatization captures exactly what is going on in Ann Arbor. Here, in Lake Woebegone-on-the-Huron, where all the men have Ph.D.s, all the woman have Ph.D.s, but are doing "research" on their ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4087 Imitation, as they say, is the most sincere form of flattery. Over the past few months, the off-brand blogger at Arborblahg has posted loads of entries in reaction to the original recipe content at A2Politico. Original content is hard to generate (no sarcasm intended), and so is a food fight when ... http://www.a2politico.com/?p=4045