By Mark | February 26, 2021
I’ve been trying my best not to obsess about the news lately, which is why I’ve been spending less time here. (Blogging and obsessing about the news have always gone hand in hand with me.) On the plus side, this reallocation of bandwidth has given me more time to spend time with my family, take […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Tagged Blade Runner, emotions, holocaust, humanity, pawn shop, replicant, Rod Steiger, Roy Batty, Rutger Hauer, Sol Nazerman, Spanish Harlem, stigmata, The Pawnbroker |
By Mark | February 22, 2021
A friend of ours was diagnosed with Covid not too long ago. About three or four days before her diagnosis, she and Linette had taken a long walk together. They’d been wearing their masks the whole time, and had stayed a good distance apart from one anther, but we were still concerned. Linette not only […]
By Mark | January 20, 2021
I wouldn’t allow myself to believe that we’d actually get here. I thought for sure that something terrible would happen. My OCD makes it really easy for me to imagine worst case scenarios, and I had dozens of them racing through my mind. Thankfully, none of them came to pass, and we had a peaceful […]
By Mark | January 9, 2021
The more that comes out about what happened on January 6 in Washington, DC, the more clear it is to me that Donald Trump needs to be immediately removed from office, and I’m thankful for those 200-some elected Democrats, like our own Debbie Dingell, Debbie Stabenow, and Gary Peters, who have already come forward in […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020, 2020 election, 25th Amendment, Arieh Kovler, Ben Sasse, Bill Clinton, Capitol, Debbie Dingell, Debbie Stabenow, Donald Trump, executions, Gary Peters, impeachment, insurrection, January 6, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Lindsay Graham, MAGA, Michael Beschloss, Mike Pence, Mo Brooks, Qanon, sedition, Ted Cruz, threat of assassination, threats to Democracy |
By Mark | January 6, 2021
This afternoon in Washington, D.C., as members of Congress counted the electoral college ballots inside the Capitol, Donald Trump’s supporters gathered outside for a “stop the steal” rally, where speaker after speaker told them that, at that very moment, our elected officials were conspiring on behalf of Joe Biden to rob their beloved president of […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged ANTIFA, Ashli Babbit, conspiracy theories, coup, dark to light, Donald Trump, electoral college, insurrection, Justin Amash, Lindsey Graham, Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Qanon, Rudy Giuliani, sedition, Stop the Steal, the seditious six, The Storm, threats to Democracy |