Last night, while Linette and the kids were out with friends, celebrating the coming of the new year, I was home in bed, recovering from a stomach bug. It was a relatively uneventful evening. I watched Arrival (which I’d been saving for a special occasion), listened to some pre-WWII jazz (as I like to do every […]
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The first annual YPSI NOW Unconference will be this Saturday
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Arrival, Betsy DeVos, call to action, Covfefe, DIYpsi, Donald Trump, Emin Agalarov, emoluments clause, fake news, First Fridays, FLY Children's Art Center, gentrification, New Year's Day, New Year's resolution, pre-war jazz and blues, Riverside Arts Center, The Bowling Green Massacre, Trevor Stone, unconference, Woody Guthrie, YPSI NOW 31 Comments
Of course it’s all about oil… Putin, Trump, and the campaign to keep the world addicted to fossil fuels
I’ve been struggling since the election to catch even a glimpse of the big picture. Like many of you, despite my best intentions, I tend to get swept up in the horror of the day. I want to look dispassionately at all the moving pieces and see if I can maybe find some logic in […]
Posted in Economics, energy, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Arctic, big oil, Canada, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, dependency on foreign oil, DNC, Donald Trump, Exxon, fake news, FBI, hacking, Hillary Clinton, James B. Comey, Kazakhstan, Lindsey Graham, Michigan, Miss Universe, NATO, offshore drilling, oil, Party of Regions, Paul Manafort, Pennsylvania, Presidential politics, propaganda, Rex Tillerson, Trump Soho, Viktor F. Yanukovych, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko, Vladimir Putin, Wisconsin 45 Comments
To what extent is Donald Trump a surrogate of Vladimir Putin?
Just before the Republican National Convention, the Republican party released their new platform for 2016. The New York Times called it “the most extreme Republican platform in memory.” Among other things, according to the Times, this new platform outlined positions “making no exceptions for rape or women’s health in cases of abortion; requiring the Bible […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged abortion, Bernie Sanders, conspiracy theories, DNC, Donald Trump, family values, foreign policy, gun control, hacking, Hillary Clinton, Kazakhstan, Miss Universe, NATO, oligarchy, Paul Manafort, Presidential politics, Putin, religion in schools, Republican National Convention, Republican platform, RNC, Russian, Russian mob, Trump Soho, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, Wikileaks 65 Comments