By Mark | November 7, 2016
I went out canvassing yesterday. I wasn’t scheduled to work a shift, but I had a few hours free, as the kids were otherwise engaged, so I decided to drop by the local Clinton campaign office and see what I could do to help. And, as there was another guy there who wanted to go […]
By Mark | October 6, 2016
Endearingly disheveled hero of the American left, Senator Bernie Sanders, made his way through Michigan today, pumping up crowds on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the run up to next month’s presidential election. Our job, he told the crowd that gathered to hear him speak at the University of Michigan’s Museum […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, anti-science, Bangladesh, Barack Obama, birther, Birthers, China, Citizens United, Constitutional amendments, Donald Trump, free college tuition, get the money out of Washington, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, Hillary Clinton, How to get our Democracy Back, income inequality, Koch brothers, Mexico, middle class, misogyny, oligarchy, outsourcing, Presidential politics, racism, Science, Sheldon Adelson, Socialism, student debt, tax policy, taxes, threats to Democracy, threats to the middle class, trade agreements, Turkey, University of Michigan |
By Mark | September 8, 2016
As Star Trek debuted 50 years ago today, and tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, I decided to spend some time this evening looking into what’s happening today that might have the same kind of long-lasting cultural impact. Sadly, I didn’t find much. No books, as far as I could tell, were released […]
Posted in Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1966, 1991, Lance Bass, Nevermind, Nirvana, NSYNC, observations, Siege of Leningrad, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Star Trek, the passage of time, Time |
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, Aras Agalarov, 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 |
I’m fascinated by the evolution of frontier justice in the digital age. Whenever there’s a story of someone being turned on by the internet, I’m completely captivated. Regardless of whether or not it’s deserved, I just can’t turn away. It’s one thing to watch a story spread like Janet Jackson’s nipple across the internet, but […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 209 Pearl, accusations of racism, anti-Semitic, Artur Zawada, Bob Dylan, class, class resentment, class warfare, economic development, entitled cunts, faggots, frat boys, gentrification, Hillary Clinton, Jake Croman, Jean Henry, minimum wage, New York, Tau Kappa Epsilon, threats to the middle class, Uber, University of Michigan, wealth inequality |
