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Today was a terrible day, but I’m OK with that

By Mark | September 23, 2014

It’s after 1:00 AM and I’ve been asked to relocate from my bed to the couch. My terrifyingly loud coughing, it would appear, has finally crossed a line. I should have had the sense to extract myself. When it gets to the point that I need to get out of bed, stand up, and brace […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arlo, car problems, colds, coughing, flu, Freeda, Honda Civic Hybrid, Linette, luck, things I'm thankful for | 5 Comments

UC Davis Chancellor escorted from her office as hundreds of students line her path, staring in deafening silence

By Mark | November 20, 2011

By now, you’ve probably seen the the footage of the UC Davis students being pepper sprayed. It’s disgusting stuff. The students are sitting down in a line, across a sidewalk, protesting recent tuition hires, and, ironically enough, episodes of police brutality elsewhere in the University of California system. They are peaceful. No one is yelling. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged bullying, Celeste Langan, Eastern Michigan University, Geoffrey O’Brien, Glen Greenwald, higher education, Joe Paterno, John Pike, kids today, Linda Katehi, Linda P.B. Katehi, Nathan Brown, non-violence, Penn State, pepper spray, police brutality, police state, Robert Hass, shame, solidarity, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, surveilance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, tuition protests, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of California, University of Michigan, violence vs non-violence, walk of shame | 22 Comments

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