I have a lot of thoughts during the day, but no one seems to want to hear them. Maybe if I expand my audience, I'll discover someone who cares, or that they are, in fact, stupid ideas.

18th April 2011

Link reblogged from Firth of Forth with 101 notes

Firth of Forth: "UPDATED - And so it begins. Emergency Financial Mgr. fires entire government of Benton Harbor, MI." →

barthel:

[buncha stuff clipped]

Look, I’ve said in the past that I’m awful at strategy. So maybe focusing on this aspect of the story will be effective in galvanizing opposition. But it does get my hackles up a little bit! There’s nothing wrong with financial managers per se, especially when…

I don’t know what this story is about, but I used to have a vacation up there, on Benton Harbor… Street. We used to go waterskiing.

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    Although I already reblogged this story, barthel offers important commentary here. Read the whole thing.
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