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Having attempted unsuccessfully to convince us that his sympathies don’t lie with Nazis, Trump returns to racist form

By Mark | August 15, 2017

Yesterday, we saw a focused, scripted Donald Trump attempt to put our minds at ease and convince us that, despite what it might have looked like in the days following the attack on Charlottesville, he really shares our believe that white supremacists are repugnant. Well, as that particular speech didn’t yield the results that our […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alt Right, alt-left, birther, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Heather Heyer, lies, Nazi, post-fact, post-truth, racism, racist dog whistle, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Terry McAuliffe, The Central Park Five, Thomas Jefferson, white nationalism, white power, white supremacist | 42 Comments

David Landrum on the launch of Two James…. the first distillery in Detroit since Prohibition

By Mark | January 31, 2013

As you may have heard, a new distillery will soon be opening in the Corktown section of Detroit, not too far from where our friend Lisa Waud will be opening the new flower shop I told you about a few days ago. From what I’m told, it will be the first legal distillery to operate […]

Posted in Detroit, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business | Also tagged absinthe, Acetaldehyde, Acetone, American Liquor Company, bootlegging, bourbon, Cafe Felix, Calvados, Camp James, Canada, Chattanooga, cider vinegar, cocktails, Colorado, Corktown, Corktown 500, David Landrum, David Pickerell, Detroit River, Distilled Spirits Producer, Dry Fly, entrepreneurism, entrepreneurship, Ethanol, Farm to Bottle, Fred McLaren, Frederick Myll Co., Hiram Walker, Lake St. Clair, Leopold Brothers, liquor, Lisa Waud, Makers Mark, martinis, Mercury Bar, Methanol, Michigan Avenue, Milk & Honey, Mount Vernon, Peter Bailey, Phyllis Diller, Portland, Pot and Box, prohibition, Purple Gang, Robinson and Aronheim, Rodney Dangerfield, rye whiskey, Sasha Petraske, scotch, smuggling, St. Clair River, Stone House, Thornsby, Todd Leopold, Two James Distillery, Volstead Act, Washington State, whiskey | 21 Comments

How Christian were our Founding Fathers?

By Mark | February 11, 2010

It’s a question that we’ve discussed here many times over the past half-dozen years – how Christian were the founding fathers? And this weekend’s New York Times magazine goes into a great deal of depth on the subject, while exploring the current battle being waged within the Texas School Board on the rewriting of American […]

Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Religious Extremism | Also tagged a wall of separation, a wall of separation between Church & State, American Academy of Religion, American revolution, American Society of Church History, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Christian nation, Christianity, Christians under attack, Connecticut Baptists, Cynthia Dunbar, Enlightenment, European Christian tradition, First Amendment, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Grand Architect, Great Awakening, James Kracht, Justice Hugo Black, Martin Marty, Mayflower Compact, misunderstanding American history, Randall Balmer, rationalism, religion, Richard Brookhiser, secularism, Texas school board, the secularist agenda, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia House of Burgesses | 13 Comments

J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn run off that crazy cliff

By Mark | January 28, 2010

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Observations, Other | Also tagged A People's History of the United States, another famous person has died, Canada, Catcher in the Rye, Civil War, Cornish, Disney, execution of mutineers, famous recluses, friends of Matt Damon's who have died, hate radio, Holden Caufield, holy wars, Howard Zinn, Huckleberry Finn, independence from England, J.D. Salinger, Jeff Kay, Jonas Brothers, Mark Twain, Mark's favorite authors, Micahel Cera, Michael Savage, phonies, slavery, the Revolutionary War, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, vonnegut, World War II | 18 Comments

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Having attempted unsuccessfully to convince us that his sympathies don’t lie with Nazis, Trump returns to racist form

David Landrum on the launch of Two James…. the first distillery in Detroit since Prohibition

How Christian were our Founding Fathers?

J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn run off that crazy cliff

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