By Mark | September 9, 2020
Since being named the best writer in Washtenaw County a few days ago, I’ve been in a bit of a funk. I’d written something last night about a piece of artwork that I’d recently acquired depicting an early human ancestor eating an oyster for the first time, and my plan to hang it in the […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged awards, Bellflower, COVID-19, Current, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll, human ancestors, lies, oysters, pandemic, public health, rape |
By Mark | September 5, 2018
Generally speaking, I have have very little sympathy for those who have chosen to work for Donald Trump. And I certainly don’t think of them as heroes, which, based on things I’ve read in the past, is how many of them apparently see themselves. They argue that, by remaining in the administration, they’re able to […]
Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged betrayal, Dina Powell, Donald Trump, Gary Cohn, ghosts, gutless, LBJ, murder, Omarosa Manigault Newman, op-ed, Oval Office, paranoia, resistance, Rex Tillerson, Shakespearean, traitors |
By Mark | September 4, 2018
Now that Bob Woodward’s book about Donald Trump is just about a week away from hitting the shelves, we’re starting to get a little more insight as to what’s inside. Today, we got word that both Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly are quoted in the book. Mattis apparently […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Donald Trump, fear, ghosts, guilty, guilty conscious, Jim Mattis, John Kelly, LBJ, MacBeth, Shakespeare, television show idea, village idiots |