Category Archives: Pop Culture

The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary… agendas at play, profits to be made

By Mark | December 15, 2012

As you’ve no doubt heard, a gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday morning, taking the lives of 20 children (all 6 and 7 years old) and 6 adults. It’s a heartbreaking story, and I don’t know that there’s anything that I can say that hasn’t already been said better by our obviously [...]

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PERSONAL DISCOVERY 001: Staying up all night and watching an entire season of Breaking Bad in one sitting is not good for one’s mental health

By Mark | September 20, 2012

Also posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Tagged "Mistakes Made By Mark that I Can Learn From", an opportunity to be taught by Mark Maynard, Breaking Bad, embarrassing revelations about Mark's television watching habits, Mark personal discoveries, Netflix, television, things that freak Mark out | 26 Comments

Because I haven’t the energy to write anything tonight that’s even remotely interesting… I give you a 19 year old Jennifer Granholm on the Dating Game

By Mark | September 13, 2012

I was searching for footage of Debbie Stabenow on the first season of Temptation Island, but this is as close as I could come.

Also posted in Michigan, Politics | Tagged 1978, Dating Game, Federal Reserve, fiscal policy, fiscal responsibility, inflation, Jennifer Granholm, QE, stimulus, Wall Street, Wall Street bailouts | 26 Comments

Sending the wrong message with Instagram

By Mark | August 27, 2012

Today, after seeing the doctor about my persistent cough, I want to the drug store, to pick up the inhalers that I’d been prescribed. And, while there, waiting, I strolled around, looking at stuff, and coughing on things. I found two things to be particularly interesting. In front of Better Homes and Garden magazine, I [...]

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I’m thinking that I might need to get a TV and hook it up to the HBO

By Mark | April 1, 2012

It looks to me like a reboot of Paddy Chayefsky’s Network. I’m generally against such things, but I’ve had a soft spot for Sorkin’s writing since Sports Night, and I think America could use another network news protagonist who takes it upon himself to speak truth to power. Here, as we haven’t run it in [...]