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The Oral History of the Monkey Power Trio… “1996: The Sound of No Hands Clapping”

By Mark | February 12, 2020

For the past several years, I’ve been posting my detailed notes here about the annual meetings of my incredibly magical one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio. I’m not sure why I started to do this, but it’s become yet another thing for me to obsess about. I invariably find myself sitting alone in an airport […]

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This History of the Monkey Power Trio… “1995: The First Hour”

By Mark | March 27, 2019

For the past several years, I’ve been posting my detailed notes here about the annual meetings of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. I’m not sure why I started to do this, but it’s become yet another thing for me to obsess about. I sit alone in an airport every year, before heading home […]

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White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders refuses to say the press is not “the enemy of the people”

By Mark | August 2, 2018

today concedes that his son met with Russian operatives at trump tower with Russian operatives to get dirt on his opponent. Ben Rhodes ‏ Verified account @brhodes 3h3 hours ago More Ben Rhodes Retweeted Donald J. Trump I worked on the Obama campaign and we would never, ever, have held a meeting with a foreign […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Capital Gazette, CNN, Donald Trump, enemy of the people, fake news, First Amendment, freedom of the press, Hitler, incitement to violence, Jim Acosta, journalism, Lügenpresse, lying press, Michelle Wolf, Q Fever, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, smokey eye, the sad state of journalism | 28 Comments

David Simon: “Whatever resentments were in the shooter’s head, the US President stood ready to bolster and validate it.”

By Mark | June 28, 2018

This afternoon, a white male gunman outfitted with a shotgun and several smoke grenades, walked into the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, and began firing. By the time he was taken into custody by the police, five people were dead, and many more were seriously injured. The man arrested by police has […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Donald Trump, free press, gun control, Jarrod W. Ramos, Lügenpresse, lying press, Maxine Waters, Milo Yiannopoulos, NRA, Sean Hannity, universal background checks | 55 Comments

As more stories come to light about immigrant children being taken from parents at the border, Trump blames his administration’s policy on Democrats

By Mark | May 27, 2018

About three weeks ago, on May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new “zero tolerance” policy at southern border. “If you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you,” Sessions said at the time. “If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you,” he continued. “And that child may […]