A friend of mine in California mentioned this music group named Prussian Blue. His words to me: Knowing you O Mystic One, you’ll probably get a good laugh out of this. But they have folks around here all up in a tizzy, bruh. So I went to the Prussian Blue web site and I was totally amused and charmed by these two cute blond hair and blue-eyed white girls. I emphasized “blond hair and blue-eyed white girls” for a reason: they emphasize it. 13-year old twin sisters Lamb and Lynx Gaede’s newest DVD/concert released is called “Blond Hair, Blue Eyes”. Their song...

My respect of blogger Francis W. Porretto (Eternity Road) just went up ten-fold due to his recent post about sex, choice, and minding you own business. A choice exerpt: Moral conduct toward others is a hotly debated subject. Your Curmudgeon doesn’t expect it to be settled in his lifetime. However, there’s at least one principle that appears to have general assent: It is wrong to treat another person solely as a means to your own ends. As regards sex, some of the implications are obvious. To lie to a potential bedmate about your intentions toward her, just to get her panties off, is...

Will someone please help me to understand that whenever people talk about a full light rail system in Detroit, Michigan and the metro area, all I hear is how we need to expand the bus system? If I’m not mistaken, Detroit faces a multi-billion dollar renovating of it’s main traffic artery I-94 (not the mention the countless antiquated and just busted main roads in the city). So what’s all this more buses talk when they frequently face the same problems that cars face? Those that live in cities with working light rail, how is it working out? We desperately need something here...

Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union makes some very good points about the state of American health care in a recent Detroit News article: In recent weeks, members and retirees of our union have confronted a new set of challenges in the field of health care. The roots of this problem, however, are hardly new. As Walter Reuther said during an address to the American Public Health Association in 1968: “We must first free ourselves of the illusion that we really have a health care system in America. What we have is a disorganized, disjointed, antiquated, obsolete...

I don’t watch funerals of important people in our society much. When his/her death is announced, I have an initial reaction, recollect on his/her impact to our society, and I move on. But I turned on Rosa Parks’ funeral ceremony and watched about 30 minutes of it on the local television coverage. That was at 11:00am EST. So when I turned on the same channel at 6:00pm, the funeral at Greater Grace Temple (Detroit) was still on-going. I was positively disgusted. My wife, the digital video recording Queen, recorded the entire ceremony. So I grabbed the remote control and started...

So President Bush has outlined a $7.1B flu-fighting strategy that will hoard enough vaccine for *snicker* 20 million Americans. Ok, that’s less than 10% of the population but who am I to complain? I’m just a peon. A scrub. A lowly citizen. But President Bush, why go the ol’ vaccine route when you can make a mandatory chicken soup initiative? Chicken soup is plentiful and easy to procur also. Oh that’s right. This is called the bird flu and chickens would be high risk and very contagious… HMMMM! I got it. A mandatory imitation chicken soup initiative! Everything...

Dell Gines has a post about WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes coming “out the closet” about her homosexuality. I’ve had the homosexuality converstation with Dell before and he is of the strict mindset that homosexuality is a choice only. I, however, believe that homosexuality can be a choice and/or genetic predisposition. Some choice words from his post: In Swoops scenario, she was happily married for a period of time, got divorced and then made a choice to be with a woman, for whatever reason that choice was made. So lets play the slippery slope game with the pro-homosexual as...

We Americans who live in winter states better prepare to shell out more dollars for the heat: Natural Gas Users to Take Hit This Winter By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) - Winter heating bills will be a third to a half higher for most families across the country, with the sharpest increases expected for those who heat with natural gas, the Energy Department forecast Wednesday. The department said natural gas users can expect to pay an average of $350 more during the upcoming winter compared to last year, an increase of 48 percent. Those who heat their homes with fuel oil will pay $378 more, or...

Talk about a massive life change for Delphi workers! They are basically losing 60% or more of everything. My fellow Americans, how are we going to sustain the middle class with more and more manufacturing going the way of the square wheel? And can service jobs really keep many Americans solid standard of living things by itself? Full article on the Delphi cuts is here (via The Detroit News).

Dean Esmay goes off on the false reporting in the Superdome about the rapes and murders: Dead babies stuffed in ice coolers. Women, children, and babies of all ages raped. Cannibalism. Shootings everywhere. Corpses numbered in the hundreds at the Superdome, and tens of thousands throughout the city. Bulls**t. It was all f**king bulls**t. You know, I am usually one of the first to stand up and say I hate false accusations of racism, and how America is mostly over that crap from the past, but someone please tell me: why did we all believe this racist bulls**t about the darkies down in New Orleans?...