"Would Roger Goodell and Dan Snyder actually travel to a Native American community and greet a group tribal members by saying, ‘Hey, what’s up redskin?’ I think not."

4th: I do work both with a Detroit 3 OEM and a Tier 1 supplier. Yes, the increase in production is a big part of their hiring, but don't discount demographic realities. The Baby Boomers are retiring and OEMs and their suppliers are losing everybody from engineers and skilled trades through logistics planners, quality…

I talked to a high schooler recently about what sounds like the modern Home Ec class, they called it "Living On Your Own" at his school. Topics I remember him discussing were how to rent an apartment, pay bills, schedule appointments, select vendors for things like plumbers/electricians/etc., shop for groceries, save…

The media frenzy over the Whole Foods still wasn't as bad as the months-long fellation that Somerset North got when it opened. Even the Columbia Journalism Review called out the News and Freep on that, they went so overboard on it.

Joe West, Angel Hernandez, C.B. Bucknor. Honorable mention to John Hirschbeck for being relatively decent in calling the game but terrible at keeping control of it (tossing Bryce Harper for mild expressions of unhappiness, etc.)

The French auto supplier Faurecia. It's a made-up name and even the company itself has two accepted pronunciations.

I dug into Bright a bit for business reasons, and they actually had a legitimate ROI model. In a different time for capital, they might have had a shot.

Neither Waffle House nor IHOP has any pull in the Detroit area, we get our late-night grease fixes at Coney Islands.

Joe Louis Arena would kick every other arena's ass.

Duggan was the CEO of the largest non-governmental employer in the city and had been elected to county-wide office (prosecutor) in the 2000s. He also came out of the McNamara machine that elected Kwame and still has a lot of political pull in the region.

This is one of the reasons that I really like John Beilein at Michigan. His master's degree is in education, which means that he had to do actual teaching and work with real students, not "student-athletes." He also made a lot of stops along the way at small schools (community college, Div III, Div II, mid-major)…

Young people may not listen to radio for music as much as they used to, but the things that true local-market radio is good at — traffic, weather, sports and local news — won't be replaced by satellite and are still doing fine in ratings.

Takeaways so far:

Hell, even Daikatana only took three years, and that included a mid-development switch from the Quake to the Quake II engine.

Over-excited fanbases, delusions of adequacy and regular crushing defeat: More a Kansas City thing or a FOX thing?

Huge car fan? http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/drivingamerica/Explore.aspx

Yardwork in general. Mowing, weedeating, edging, hedge trimming...if there's only one nice stretch of a summer weekend in a Midwestern suburb, you can be sure you're wasting it sweating like an Ohio State running back taking his Wonderlic and covered in more crap than an Iron Chef salad.

I want Michigan to bring back its bicentennial license plates.

I'll quote the long-timer Mayor of Detroit, the late Coleman A. Young, after whom our city hall is now named: "When you look at the reality of the situation, I think the only future for black people in this country has got to be in coalition, not in head-to-head conflict with the white majority."

GM has roughly 200,000 employees. Assume some large annual cost for the corporate jet program like $10 million. Amortized across GM's employee base, that's a $50/year difference in what the company could afford to pay each employee.