Oh my God! DeVos is the right wing Amway guy. Will he really win?
I'd take odds at 3 to 2 DeVos.
Michigan is bleeding, having witnessed serious crises by GM, Ford and many suppliers. . .Detroit's official unemployment rate hovers around 15% and the state at large is about 6.8% PEN'-L's excellent C Brown covers this all well. I wish he had a column in the Detroit Free Press. . .
People are fretting in this culture of fear and denial squared. Read Julian Edney's CounterPunch piece yesterday, and anything by Paul Roberts on the jobs depression
http://www.counterpunch.org/edney04222006.html
The rise of proto-fascism with its cult of celebrity will do in Granholm. . .the local political pundits have all but erected the R.I.P. site for her . .all this mindlessness is abetted by the timidity of intellectuals (especially academics who speak wonders within hermetically sealed classrooms but silence themselves outside the walls) in this United States of Amnesia. . .all known to you all. . .
Socialism or barbarism is more true today than in Rosa's time. . .
Brian
