Tag: Mike

Meet Mike, An Average Guy Who Retired Early at 36

Michael Quan is like any other average Joe. He is a father of two living in California who had a regular office job. But unlike most of us, he was able to retire in his 30s. It only took him a decade of saving and investing. Michael jumped into the job market with a $42,000 annual paychec...

Why the Republicans Chose Mike Johnson

In 2003, when the U.S. Supreme Court was deciding whether to decriminalize gay sex in Lawrence v. Texas, the Alliance Defending Freedom (then the Alliance Defense Fund) submitted an amicus brief arguing that Texas should be allowed to keep it criminalized. Mike Johnson, then the ADF spo...

Homophobes Mike and Kelly Johnson Visit the Buttigieg Household

This exchange got me imagining how such a visit might go, what might be said, and how these two couples, Pete and Chasten, and Mike and his wife Kelly, might relate to each other. Certainly, the tone would be one of superficial politeness. These folks are, after all, practitioners of civility ...

Speaker Mike Johnson: Making America Straight — Or At least Closeted — Again*

Human Rights Campaign’s recent ROUNDUP summarizes Speaker Mike Johnson’s decades-long devotion to merging his extremist visions of religion and government, his sanctimonious dedication to preventing, curtailing, and reversing the expansion of civil and human rights to historica...

Why the Republicans Chose Mike Johnson

These days, together with the Family Policy Alliance, Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council and others, the Alliance Defending Freedom backs a coalition called the Promise to America’s Children. This coalition opposes the nondiscrimination protections in the LGBTQ-inclusi...

“Black Bear Country” by Mike Lapinski

Mike Lapinski’s book “Black Bear Country” is a fascinating and educational look into the world of black bears, providing readers with knowledge on the ecology, behavior, and coexisting techniques of the areas these famous animals call home. Lapinski’s 1990 book is an extensiv...

Making Mischief with Mike Eckhaus

Mike Eckhaus has always done things his own way, but he’s not unaware of the consequences. If anything, he finds them amusing. When he was a 16-year-old high schooler in Westchester, New York, he and a friend (who now produces Eckhaus Latta’s fashion shows) assigned themselves themed ...