The Goodspeed Update

I was there last week. Click for a bigger view, or better yet, see the full sized version.
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Ever
since 9/11, I have been arguing that the ‘war against terror’ is
immoral and counterproductive. It sanctions the the use of state
terror—-bombing raids, tortures, countless civilian deaths in
Afghanistan and Iraq—-against Islamo-anarchists whose numbers are
small, but whose reach is deadly. The solution then, as now is
political, not military. The British ruling elite understood this
perfectly well in the […]

Detroit Free Press architecture writer John Gallagher discusses in a column today
what should happen in Detroit to better preserve the city’s
architecture. He writes: “Preservation seems more like a secondary
option in Detroit, to be abandoned if a developer prefers tearing
something down and starting anew. That’s not making use of our best
assets,â€? and asks after pointing to […]

The Eugene Kang for City Council campaign in Ann Arbor has launched a candidate website: kangforcitycouncil.com. My Kang index post has links to all the other material about his campaign on my blog. Vote for him August 2 in the Ward 2 democratic primary!

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Ok, I should have blogged this map a
long time ago. The Sierra Club advocates construction of a new Metro
line to ease traffic and slow sprawl. See their website for more information.
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I’m
not convinced most of the “missed connections� on the Ann Arbor
craigslist are actually real. But they sure make for fun reading. Check
out this recent one:
You:
pipe smoking boy in an “I rate A² too� t-shirt, reading an Urban
Planning(?) text book in Liberty Plaza yesterday lunchtime. I think you
were listening to an iPod.
Me: Gelato-eating girl in yellow […]