A few days ago, I was listening to the punk rock classic Anarchy is Stupid in my car, when it occurred to me that it might be time to revisit the underlying conceit of the song. For those of you who aren’t well versed in rock and roll history, the song was recorded live almost […]
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Military pawns, racist scum, and living in a nation where no-one’s at the helm… Welcome to the #TrumpShutdown
As we discussed last week, in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown, a bipartisan group of Senators led by Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin went to the White House with a plan that, as they relayed to the President, would pass through both houses of Congress. This compromise legislation, they explained to Donald Trump and […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #SchumerShutdown, #TrumpShutdown, America First, Bill Kristol, border security, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, Chuck Schumer, Claire McCaskill, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Dick Durbin, Donald Trump, Gang of Six, government shutdown, Haiti, immigration, immigration reform, isolationism, Jordan, Lindsey Graham, Mexico, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, open borders, racism, Rand Paul, shithole, Stephen Miller, support the troops, Tammy Duckworth, Temporary Protected Status, the border with Mexico 245 Comments
Hurricane Harvey has taken me to a dark place
I think I’m suffering from outrage overload. I just don’t want to write about anything anymore. There’s too much that needs to be said, and I have too little time, energy and talent to do it justice. I find myself just sitting here, staring at my screen, paralyzed by the thought that, as soon as […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized Also tagged baseball caps, dams, end times, fishing for praise, flooding, floods, global climate change, Global Warming, high heels, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, infrastructure, John Cornyn, MAGA, Melania Trump, natural disasters, On Tyranny, Robert Mueller, self-serving, Texas, zoning 78 Comments