By Mark | October 15, 2020
When news broke that Donald Trump had contracted the deadly disease he’d been lying to the American people about these past six months, the members of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, fearing that he might further spread the disease in a live event, proposed that the debate which had been scheduled for tonight be […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mercedes Schlapp, Mister Rodgers Neighborhood, Navy SEALS, NBC, Osama bin Laden, pedophilia, Qanon, Satan, Savannah Guthrie, town hall |
By Mark | January 7, 2019
Early this afternoon, Donald Trump tweeted out that he would be addressing the nation at 9:00 on Tuesday evening to discuss the “national security crisis on our southern border.” The three networks, who, back in November of 2014, refused to televise a speech on immigration by President Barack Obama, saying that it was too political, […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged border security, border wall, Brian Stelter, bullying, CBS, Dan Pfeiffer, Donald Trump, fake news, illegal immigration, Judd Legum, Kirstjen Nielsen, national emergency, NBC, racism, stupid ideas, terrorism |
By Mark | October 6, 2014
I know I should be writing about something other than Twin Peaks tonight, as everyone else in the world is posting their thoughts about today’s big announcement right now, but there’s really nothing else I want to write about. I mean, I sat here, trying to write about Naomi Wolf’s descent into madness, but my […]
By Mark | September 20, 2013
I don’t know that it changes anything, but I wonder if the folks behind the statue of Robocop, which will soon be staring-down the citizens of Detroit, know that he wasn’t the first robot to wear a badge… No, a full decade before officer Alex Murphy became Robocop, there was officer Gregory Yoyonivich, breaking down […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Pop Culture | Also tagged 1970s, Alex Murphy, Build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, Cabrini–Green, cop shows, Earnest Borgnine, Esther Rolle, Future Cop, Good Times, Gregory Yoyonivich, Holmes & Yo-Yo, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Norman Lear, Robocop, robot cops, robot shows, sitcom stars, sitcoms, Soul on Ice, The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
When I heard that ABC was going to begin airing a police drama set in Detroit, I was hoping for the best. I was, perhaps naively, expecting something like The Wire. Judging from this ad, though, which was just sent to me by my friend Mike, that’s not what the producers had in mind. Maybe […]
