By Mark | August 20, 2019
A week ago today, standing in front of 5,000 Royal Dutch Shell contract employees in Monaca, Pennsylvania — who, by the way, were told that, if they didn’t attend, they wouldn’t be paid — Donald Trump announced that the American steel industry “was dead” until he levied tariffs against imported steel last year. According to […]
By Mark | August 20, 2019
If you’re reading this in the future, and want to send a cyborg back in time in order to keep me from being born, so that I don’t destroy Skynet, or do whatever terrible and awesome thing it is that I’m going to do in my remaining years here on earth, this is where you […]
Posted in geneology, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Tagged 1918 flu, Angie Condreva, architecture, AT&T, bourbon, Buffalo Trace, Charles Augustus Maynard, Charles Maynard, Curtis Florian, cyborg, Daniel Boone National Forrest, family history, Frankfort, Goodwood Brewing, guns, houseboats, Kentucky, Lake Cumberland, Little Mister Frankfort, Mark's ancestors, Minnie Florian, Monticello, Navy, Paty Maynard, Portsmouth, Rabbit Hash, Saint Joseph Hospital, Skynet, T-800, Terminator, the draft, Vietnam War, White Sulphur |
By Mark | August 18, 2019
Yesterday, several white nationalist groups descended on Portland, Oregon. The idea, it would seem, was for these heroic specimens of Arian perfection to bait the anti-fascist counter-protestors who had gathered in response into some kind of violent confrontation, in hopes that right-wing “journalists” like Andy Ngo might be able to get a few photos of […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged Andy Ngo, anti-fascist, ANTIFA, cereal, chauvinism, Civil War, Donald Trump, El Paso, fascism, fear, grievance, higher self, Hyborian Warlord, incels, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Briggs, MAGA, Nazi, non-violence, Oregon, Portland, Proud Boys, racism, recession, sexism, Ted Wheeler, terrorism, white nationalism, Wisconsin |
By Mark | August 15, 2019
I’m not familiar with every movie that’s ever been made about affluent, middle-aged white men coming to terms with their own mortality, but, if I were asked to weigh in on what films should be included in an “Affluent White Men in Existential Crisis” film festival, I’d definitely nominate John Frankenheimer’s Seconds (1966) starring Rock […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Tagged Affluent White Men in Crisis, Affluent White Men in Existential Crisis, Burt Lancaster, Eleanor Perry, existential crisis, film festivals, Frank Perry, John Frankenheimer, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, midlife crisis, mortality, old white men, Rock Hudson, Seconds, The Swimmer |
By Mark | August 13, 2019
My plan tonight was to write an awesome post about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut of 2017, and how, contrary to what we were promised at the time, they didn’t “pay for themselves” by driving increased corporate investment, but instead pushed the federal deficit to a record-breaking $747.1 billion. None of this, of course, is […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Economics, Uncategorized | Tagged 1975, bonuses, budget deficit, canes, Congressional Budget Office, corporate welfare, Dolemite Is My Name, Dolomite, Eat Out More Often, Eddie Murphy, entitlements, film ideas, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, karate, kung fu, Los Angeles, Mark's, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, Netflix, pimps, Rudy Ray Moore, Russ Forster, social security, Steven Mnuchin, tax cuts, theology of tax cuts, Tony Clifton, Treasury Secretary, Trump tax cuts, welfare, welfare reform, XXX |
