I've been married a really long time and have (at least) three children. You can hear me hosting the news talk show 'Dan Land.' It's pretty lucky that my name is Dan. That definitely helped me land the gig. "Welcome to Dan Land, this is Dave," just doesn't have the same ring to it. Tune in to hear the latest on the local political scene or when you want to save money, as I'm also the host of Value Connection: Your Store On the Radio.
Dan Foley
How Greedy Can a Corporation Be?
President Obama is reminding people as he campaigns for re-election what corporations are about (especially those of the private equity variety): maximizing shareholder profits. There’s nothing wrong with this, it’s just not something someone who wants to be President of the United States ever should have done. Sorry Mitt.
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Why Fruit Fly Testes Matter (And Not Just to Lady Fruit Flies)
Science is amazing. If the search for answers to the question of human aging leads us to fruit fly testes, as it apparently has, then fruit fly testes are getting smeared on a slide and going under the microscope. I’ll bet funding for this research was approved without so much as a “hmmm” or even a scratch of the head. It’s SCIENCE.
To be se...
Occupy Flint Ends: Accomplishments Unclear but Memories to Cherish
Occupy Flint is closing down their encampment. Terry Bankert posted this on Facebook and debate has raged. My goal is to rally the 51% around a few points regarding smaller government and money in politics.
1) Some suggest the Tea Party movement for “smaller government” lacks specifics and is less coherent than the Occupy movement. But the Tea Party movement began with a very specific ..
9 out of 10 Socialists Prefer Christian Charity to State Welfare for Own Kids
I asked an unapologetic socialist, ‘if you were about to die, would you prefer to leave your kids with a loving Christian family or leave them wards of the state?’ An honest man, he admitted he’d prefer to leave his kids with a loving Christian family.
We agreed that Chr...
3-D Glasses Now with Opti-Grab; Two Great Hollywood Ideas
By all accounts, The Avengers is a delightful movie. Thankfully, it is available in 2-D so I will be able to see it soon. I refuse to watch movies in 3-D. I will never watch another movie in 3-D. Ever.
Far be it from me to cast the first stone. Who hasn’t made a ...
Flint’s Toughest Jobs
Flint has a pretty tough reputation. Terms like "Murder Capital USA" and "One of the 10 Worst Places to Live in America" are not uncommon. We're like Detroit, but without being featured in an Eminem Chrysler commercial. You'd expect such a city to be a tough place to work. And it is. ...
Win Free Tickets Today to See Leahy Saturday at the Whiting
Today we'll give away one more FREE pair of tickets to see Leahy at the Whiting, this Saturday, during the Brenda Brissette-Mata show. LEAHY is a whirlwind triple-threat of fiddle-driven music, dance, and vocals augmented by keyboards and percussion. The...
Robots Who Need Robots are the Luckiest Robots
In response to my claim that people, not machines, have needs someone recently noted at SciForum.com that machines also have needs. For example, they need energy to function. I agree; machines need energy to function. But do they need to function? Would a machi...
Singularity and the New $600 Man
Technology advances rapidly, exponentially even. We rarely bother to ask where all this is headed. We just know the next time we swap out our cell phone the new one will be better, stronger, faster (Six Million Dollar Man sound here) and generally it’ll cost the same or less than the one it replaces.
Ray Kurzwei...
Would You Rather be Tased or…?
With tasers soon to be legalized here in Michigan, let's play would you rather:
1) Would you rather be tased or sprayed with mace?
2) Would you rather be tased or have to serve as Flint's emergency financial manager?
3) Would you rather be tased or waterboarded...