RoboCop rises just as the city of Detroit plummets further into a nightmarish financial abyss, just in time to protect a handful of residents from the fiscal shitstorm on the horizon. The future is here and it's in many ways as bad as what science fiction predicted.

There's national watercooler talk about Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey, his spirited interviews and whether subjects like him, Sweet Brown and Antoine Dodson are just being exploited by reporters and meme-makers. Detroit's Fox 2 wants in on that action, apparently.

One month after releasing a trailer teasing Andreas Eriksson drifting a Ford Fiesta ST rally car atop a downtown Detroit parking garage, here, finally, is the official bid video by The Work to bring the X Games to Detroit. Was it worth the wait? Hell yes.

Josh Linkner, a venture capitalist who's business partners with Dan Gilbert and, as of a few months ago, a Detroit Free Press business columnist, took time from being fabulous to post a curious musing on the Freep's site.

Metro Detroit never thought a transit system operating down the Woodward corridor was actually going to happen. Then it seemed possible. Then it fell apart. And then it was revived once everyone decided to stop putzing around.

Behind the debate over the White Entrepreneurial Guy meme was the actual Guy, Jason Lorimer, who suddenly became the icon for a lot of pent-up resentment. Over drinks it became clear the biggest issue Detroit has isn't people like Lorimer but rather the media that covers them. Often poorly.

The cost of living in America's big name cities isn't getting any cheaper. Here in New York, everyone under the age of 97 has moved to Brooklyn, and everyone else is moving out altogether. This causes some problems.

Detroit has been down and out lately. But there's still life in the Motor City. Right now, there's a campaign to get the X Games to Detroit in 2014 to 2016. This is the awesome trailer for the big bid video that is coming out later this month.

Tea and cookies: A daily tradition in England, and now a symbol of racial tension in the neverending political battle here in Detroit.

Nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas — the guy who once argued that no new mosques should be built in Western countries — decided it was his turn to offer some redundant and insipid national perspective on Detroit's current fiscal fiasco.