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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in France with Donald Trump

By Mark | November 11, 2018

There are a lot of reasons not to like Donald Trump. Some, admittedly, are better than others. Today, I have a really trivial one to add to the list… Given his antics in Europe right now, he’s forcing me to change my annual post about how I prefer Armistice Day to Veterans’ Day. Here’s what […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1918, Aisne-Marne, ambient audio, Angela Merkel, Armistice Day, Balkans, Baltics, Belleau Wood, Ben Rhodes, budget cuts, Canada, caravans, David Frum, Department of Veterans Affairs, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Estonia, Florida, France, historic audio, Hooters, Imperial War Museum, Joe Dunford, John Kelly, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Justin Trudeau, Kurt Vonnegut, Latvia, Le Monde, Lithuania, Marine One, Marines, nationalism, NATO, November 11, Paris, peace, racism, rain, River Moselle, unfounded accusations, veterans, Veterans' Day, Vladimir Putin, war, Winston Churchill, World War I, Yugoslavia | 82 Comments

Looking for the Mark III

By Mark | August 19, 2018

I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, Art 1 and 2, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, Edith Massey, film history, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum of American History, technology, The Hearts of Age, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Welt am Draht, Woodstock, World on a Wire | 10 Comments

I too have zero tolerance

By Mark | June 18, 2018

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, cruelty, Diane Feinstein, ethics, George W. Bush, 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 | 298 Comments

Making enemies of our adversaries, and embracing our foes… The Trump Doctrine

By Mark | June 9, 2018

[above: A petulant child, forced to interact with adults, pouts.] I don’t have the time right now to put this in the proper context, but I wanted to pass along this video of our President, moments before leaving the United States for the G-7 meeting in Canada, declaring himself to be “Russia’s worst nightmare,” and, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, Canada, collusion, Crimea, Donald Trump, election hacking, foreign policy, France, G-7, G-8, Group of 7, international trade, Italy, Japan, John McCain, Justin Trudeau, Kim Jong Un, lies, Max Boot, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, tariffs, The Trump Doctrine, trade agreements, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vladimir Putin | 373 Comments

Down the staircase and through the rabbit hole…

By Mark | November 26, 2017

As I type this, I’m laying on the couch in our living room, silently watching the family cat slowly disembowel a naugahyde chair on the other side of the room, as I try to assess just how broken I am. As I was able to walk on my own from the bottom of the staircase […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged accidents, Arlo, Battleship Potemkin, Benjamin Wittes, Black Friday, child sacrifice, Christmas, CNN, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., drain the swamp, emoluments clause, extinction, fake news, false flag, France, Free Speech, grab them by the pussy, guns, Hitler, human sacrifice, Hungary, Icarus, Italy, Japanese game shows, Kool-Aid, Luciferian ritual, Lügenpresse, MAGA, MAGAPILL, manifestos, Mark Schlissel, Mark's health, Nazis, New York Times, Ohio, Poland, Richard Spencer, Roy Moore, Russia, Russiagate, Seinfeld, slip and fall, slippery slope, socks, Spain, stair runners, staircases, stairs, Sweden, Thanksgiving, Tony Hovater, Trump Winery, Twin Peaks, University of Michigan, white nationalism | 151 Comments

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in France with Donald Trump

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