Urban Decay In Detroit

I was in the Detroit metro area on business last week. I’ll be relocating to the area in a couple months so I wanted to get acquainted with the area. Since I was scheduling my own trip, I penciled in an extra weekend to explore. I set aside the last day to just drive around the roughest neighborhoods of Detroit.  Most of these pictures are from the Hamtramck neighborhood.

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My Thoughts on the Gulf Oil Spill

There are two topics that are just about guaranteed to make you more enemies than friends: politics and religion. I realize that this blog is freely accessible to anyone including potential employers, co-workers, or clients. Because of this, I try to avoid the aforementioned ”two topics”. However, this is a personal blog, after all, so I will try to keep some balance here. Somehow the discussion of BP’s actions have gotten rather politically charged, and I feel like writing about something like this is  metaphorically like navigating a social minefield. Regardless, I’m going to share my thoughts anyhow. Potential employers, co-workers, clients: stop here if you are particularly sensitive about this.

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