Amer G. Zahr is opening Cafe Oz, Ann Arbor’s first hookah cafe, in the old Webelite building on Fifth Street, although the Ann Arbor news article about it quickly devolves into some sort of moralizing crusade against teen smoking. I wonder if they subjected La Dolce Vita to the same treatment when they opened. Just […]
The University has announced that Evan H. Caminker will replace Jeff Lehman as dean of the U-M law school, effective August 1. From the press release linked below: “Caminker, who has taught in the fields of constitutional law, civil procedure, and federal courts, has received the ACLU Distinguished Professors Award for Civil Liberties Education.”>AANEWS: “U-M […]
The 40th anniversary of Detroit’s massive 1963 “Walk to Freedom” down Woodward Avenue will be held next week.
Did you know 40% of the U.S. Senate are millionaires?See “Millionaires populate U.S. Senate”. The House isn’t much better, with our own John Dingell high in the running. From “Pelosi among wealthiest Democrats in House.”:“Rep. John D. Dingell, Michigan Democrat, the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the longest-serving House lawmaker, […]
Censorship in Iraq“Iraq’s lethal peace could yet change American minds” editorializes London’s left-leaning Guardian, pointing out that: “Almost unnoticed outside Iraq, the senior US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, has issued a proclamation outlawing any “gatherings, pronouncements or publications” that call for the return of the Ba’ath party – or for opposition to the US […]
United Press Internantional has released this analysis of the U-M case interviewing Peter Kirsanow, appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission; and Marvin Krislov, the University’s general counsel. Kirsanow predicts Rehnquist, Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas and O’Connor voting to overturn Bakke – ruling diversity is not a compelling state interest: “Why […]
As a note of explanation, the thing below my archives in the left column is an advertisement. Blogs of War has bought the first ad for t-shirts and other stuff celebrating Senator Orrin Hatch’s comment that he would support technology, if it existed, that would destroy the computer of users who violated copyright law. (See […]