Maybe it’s just that my people come from coal country, but I have visceral reaction every time I hear either Trump or Pence bragging, as they both did again this afternoon, about their successful efforts to put more poor Americans to work below the surface of the earth… I get why the message resonates with […]
By Mark | January 4, 2017
Continuing our conversation from before Christmas about how the press intends to cover the lies of President Trump, I wanted to share the following quote from this past weekend’s episode of the Meet the Press. This is how Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker responded to a question posed by Chuck Todd about how aggressively, […]
Posted in Media, Uncategorized | Also tagged birther, conspiracy theories, Dan Rather, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, future of journalism, Gerard Baker, Glenn Kessler, Greg Sargent, journalism, lies, Meet the Press, normalization, pizzagate, PolitiFact, post-truth, racism, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, truth, Wall Street Journal |
We now have electricity at Landline Creative Labs. I was super excited about this development until it dawned on me that I now no longer have to stop pulling nails and scraping paint when the sun goes down. For what it’s worth, I’m enjoying the work, even if it does kind of feel like we’re […]
By Mark | November 16, 2014
I don’t know this to be true, but I’ve heard, over the years, that the Maynard side of my family made their way to Kentucky from West Virginia. And, as there are currently a great many Maynards there, like Lee Maynard, the brilliant author of Crum, I suspect that there may be some truth to […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, energy, Environment, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ayn Rand, coal mines, Crum, Don Blankenship, Jay Rockefeller, Lee Maynard, Libertarianism, Massey Energy, other Mark Maynards, Upper Big Branch South Mine, West Virginia, Whitesville, workplace safety |