By Mark | December 3, 2020
I was 13 years old on December 29, 1981 — the day that my great grandmother Minnie Wise Florian died in Liberty, Kentucky. I was with her when she passed, a few weeks after her 89th birthday. It was a traumatic night. My father was out, playing basketball with some old high school friends, and […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged anxiety, Arlo, cathartic, Charles Maynard, crying, depression, family history, fatherhood, gratitude, Huron River, Minnie Wise Florian, OCD, suicide |
Both of these tweets were posted on the same day — July 21, 2020. In the first, the President of the United States, without offering any evidence to back up his claim, brags about how “well” we’re handling the COVID-19 pandemic compared with other countries. In the second, the New York Times reports that, once […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-science, Brazil, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, pandemic, pedophilia, public health, Qanon, sex trafficking |
Today, in a clear violation of campaign finance law, Brad Parscale, the director of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, tweeted from inside the White House that Trump-branded COVID-19 face masks were soon to be available for purchase. I had other things that I wanted to write about tonight, but it seemed worth noting that the […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, Brad Parscale, campaign finance, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, death cult, death star, irony, masks, pandemic, Star Wars |
On Fox News yesterday, Donald Trump, after making the ridiculous case that he’s been “treated worse” than Abraham Lincoln, said that, in his opinion, it is now safe to re-open society. He then went on to say that, by the time all of this is over, the COVID-19 death toll in the United States could […]
Posted in History, Michigan, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, American individualism, anti-science, assault weapons, Australia, Canada, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contact tracking, coronavirus, credit, Donald Trump, Family Dollar, governors, Lansing, Marcy Wheeler, Marshall plan, masks, media literacy, narcissism, Opening Up America Again, pandemic, Parkland, public health, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Smithsonian Institution, social distancing, suicide, Trumpism, WHO, World Health Organization |
While some on the right are suggesting that the official COVID-19 death count is inflated, it seems likely the opposite is true. According to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it looks as though the number of “excess” deaths we’ve been seen these past several weeks far exceeds what’s been […]
