As I remember having railed against people who criticized Michelle Obama for her fashion choices, I guess what I’m about to say could come across as a bit hypocritical. In my defense, though, Michelle Obama was a decent human being, and, at least I’m pretty sure, never would have visited a for-profit concentration camp for […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged chaos, child cruelty, family separation, Melania Trump, Mexico, Parker Molloy, Pepe, Pepe the Frog, racism, sartorial, Stephen Miller, Urban Outfitters, Zara |
The above photo, taken by photographer John Moore, shows a heart-broken two year old Honduran asylum seeker being taken from her mother at the US-Mexico border. The scene, sadly, is one that has become all too commonplace these past several weeks, as the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward migrants crossing the southern border has […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigration, Apostle Paul, Barack Obama, border patrol, Brownsville, Casa Padre, child cruelty, crisis actors, Diane Feinstein, ethics, George W. Bush, Germany, human rights, Jeff Sessions, Jesus Christ, John McCain, Kamala Harris, Keep Families Together Act, Kirstjen Nielsen, Laura Bush, Methodist, Michael Hayden, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Texas, United Methodist Church, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council, Walmart, Walter Shaub, zero tolerance |
By Mark | December 23, 2017
While sold to the American people as a “middle class tax cut” that wouldn’t help the super-rich like Donald Trump, the tax reform legislation just passed by the Republicans is, in fact, a windfall for the rich that does considerably less for American’s middle class than the Obama stimulus package of 2009 did. Had the […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #CorkerKickback, America Cares Act, Bob Corker, budget deficit, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, FDR, health care, health insurance, mandates, Medicaid, Medicare, middle class tax cuts, New Deal, Paul Ryan, poverty, Republican lies, rolling back the New Deal, social safety net, social security, stimulus, tax reform, tax scam, taxes, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, welfare |
By Mark | December 10, 2017
I was about a half hour into the 1942 horror classic Cat People last night, when I decided to take a break and do a little research into the film’s Russian-born producer, Val Lewton. Well, one thing led to another, and I fell asleep listening to episode number three of Karina Longworth’s brilliant podcast, You […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1761, 1946, Age of Reason, b-movies, Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Boris Karloff, Cat People, Film, Glen Vernon, gold, Goldfinger, horror, It's a Wonderful Life, James Bond, Jill Masterson, John Monro, Karina Longworth, Korina Longworth, mental asylum, mental health, mental illness, old man Gower, podcasts, RKO, skin asphyxiation, Val Lewton, You Must Remember This |
This afternoon, at about 2:20, our members of Congress voted 217 to 213 to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something that would take health care from over 24 million Americans, cut Medicaid by $840 billion, severely scale back protections for people with preexisting conditions, and any number of other horrible things. And, then, these […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ActBlue, AHCA, America Health Care Act, Archie Parnell, Cesarean sections, Dave Trott, death panel, death panels, Fred Upton, Georgia, healthcare reform, House of Representatives, Jon Ossoff, Mike Pence, Montana, Obamacare, postpartum depression, rape, Rob Quist, single payer, South Carolina, Trumpcare |
