By Mark | November 23, 2015
Late last week, I lost a very dear friend. His name was Caleb Brokaw. Some of you who live here in Ypsi, I’m sure, knew him. He lived just east of Depot Town, and he could often be seen walking happily through the neighborhood with his wife, Sue, and their daughter, Evie. He and Sue […]
By Mark | November 10, 2015
“I just ate at McDonalds and I’m absolutely beside myself. I’m so upset that I can barely type. Do you know that nowhere on the packaging for their Filet ‘O Fish does it mention that Jesus Christ died for our sins upon a cross? It doesn’t even mention that he was known to have enjoyed […]
Posted in Marketing, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged brand identity, brand jamming, branding, broiled fish, Christians under attack, coffee, cups, Donald Trump, fast food, filet 'o fish, fish, Glengarry Glen Ross, honeycomb, Jesus, logos, McDonalds, packaging, paper cups, resurrection, war on Christmas, What Would Jesus Eat? |
By Mark | September 2, 2014
Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History | Also tagged abortion, affirmative action, assassination, Barack Obama, Brown v. Board of Education, busing, Charles Koch, Charlotte, civil disobedience, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil War, Committee on Equal Employment, economic justice, Emmett Till, entitlements, family values, Forward Together Moral Movement, George Wallace, guns, health care, higher ground, homosexuality, JFK, Jim Crow, Kevin Phillips, Koch brothers, labor, LBJ, Lee Atwater, Medgar Evers, Medicaid, Medicare, MLK, moral fusion, Moral Monday, morality, Netroots Nation, North Carolina, Otto Scharmer, Plessy v. Ferguson, political strategy, populism, poverty, prayer in the school, progressive politics, public education, race and poverty, race card, racism, reconstruction, Redemption Movement, religion, religious right, RFK, Richard Nixon, Rosa Parks, snake line, social justice, Southern Coalition Leadership Conference, southern strategy, states rights, tea party, voter suppression, voting rights, William Barber |
By Mark | January 15, 2014
If you’ve read this site for any length of time, you likely know how I feel about Ken Ham, the Australian ex-patriot (and accomplished charlatan) behind the evangelical anti-science group, Answers in Genesis, and Kentucky’s monument to stupidity, which he and his disciples refer to as the Creationism Museum. Well, I know that I’ve said […]
Posted in Church and State, Observations, Other, Religious Extremism, Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged Answers in Genesis, anti-science, Bill Nye "The Science Guy", Charles Darwin, child abuse, Clarence Darrow, creationism, Creationism Museum, Creationism Science, debates, dinosaurs, Dinosaurs in Eden, dismantling of public education, Education, evolution, Flintstone Face-Off, Flintstones, Global Warming, HMS Beagle, humans coexisting with dinosaurs, ignorance, innovation, Ken Ham, Kentucky, Larry Flynt, Rescuing our Kids, Rescuing our Kids from Science, Rumble in the Jungle, Science, the celebration of ignorance, The Planetary Society, threats to public education, Thrilla in Manila, trends in American education, Young Earth Creationism |
By Mark | December 30, 2013
This holiday season Sarah Palin became the most recent in a long line of shameless conservative pundits to cash in on the so-called War on Christmas. Her book, “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” was released at the end of November to the delight of poorly informed Fox News-viewers everywhere. The […]
Posted in History, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bible, Bill O'Reilly, Catholicism, Christmas, Church of England, Easter, evangelical, Foolstide, FOX News, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, human sacrifice, Increase Mather, Jesus, Michael D. Hattem, nativity, pagan, paranoia, persecution complex, Puritans, religious freedom, Roman, Sabbath, Sarah Palin, Saturnalia, secular saboteurs, secularism, The Junto, the secularist agenda, war on Christmas, wassailling |
