This was printed on Sunday, but L. Brooks Patterson's recent antics inspired me to post this. For all his bravado about not being Detroit, the state continues to lose its best and brightest - for well over a decade, and certainly beyond.

It is extremely telling when Chicago - the favorite punching bag here - is the favorite locale of young professionals. Yes, a gritty, violent, albeit functioning, rust-belt city. I wonder what they could possibly be looking for there that Auburn Hills doesn't have to offer.

Keep doing what you're doing, you bunch of fucks, and we'll all leave, and leave your old dying asses to clean up this dump of a state from the nursing home.

http://www.freep.com/article/2014011...ince-recession