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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:24 AM Original message |
Mitch Albom is dead to me now: Today's column in the Detroit Free Press |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
1. He lost me a long time ago......His ego is insufferable...... |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:35 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Oops, wrong place. |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. +1 |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. I never got the guy |
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Atlatl (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
3. I hate the Yankees... |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Steinbrenner was pretty good at giving his money away while he was alive |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
5. "The money doesn't go to the poor; it goes to the government." WTF? |
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jimmie (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. That was my thought... |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. Mitch's salary compared to the new hires at the Freep is like a CEO's to a line worker's. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
9. Reads like a case of throwing an expensive Self-pity party |
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Loge23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yeah Mitch, let's tax the working stiff instead. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yep, he's shown his true colors here. Another Rush Limbaugh. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
12. So he won't be one of the ones you meet in Heaven? :-) |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. Once they get rich they tend to suck more |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
15. Here's hoping that cynical hack will be meeting up with Morrie soon |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
16. IIRC, he crossed the picket lines during the Detroit newspapers strike in the early '90s. |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. Wow! I didn't realize he was a Freeper. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. In case there's any confusion about the link |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Yeah. It always freaks me out when I see a link to freep.com for the obvious |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. Rise up! Rise up! You downtrodden wealthy! Strike back at poor who are oppressing you! |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
19. Well, the King of Smarm turns out to be a member of the "I Got MINE" brigade |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Extremely well said. He's a fraud. |
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Urban Prairie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. Wasn't Albom one of the reporters that crossed the picket lines when |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Wow, I sure remember that. Worked in PR then, and it was a mess. |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 04:32 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Albom's scabbing provided cover for others to cross. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
22. I am SO sick of the obscenely rich |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
25. No one of any means (or brains) pays the estate tax |
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