By Mark | October 7, 2018
I’m reminded today of something that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in the February 8, 1958 issue of the Baptist magazine Missions. “Those of us who call the name of Jesus Christ find something in the center of our faith which forever reminds us that God is on the side of truth and justice,” Dr. […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Archie Byron, Atlanta, Brett Kavanaugh, Buttermilk Bottom, Caesar, civil rights, concentration camps, Donald Trump, evil, justice, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, moral arc, Nazi, Ned Cartlidge, nonviolence, Theodore Parker, truth, William Cullen Bryant, Wöbbelin |
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, Germany, human rights, Jeff Sessions, 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 |
By Mark | January 14, 2018
I have a vague memory of proclaiming a while back that I was done posting about the hypocrisy of Trump supporters, as it doesn’t seem to do any good. The evangelical members of the Trump base didn’t abandon him when they heard him talking about grabbing women ‘by their pussies’ without consent, so, really, what’s […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alana Evans, Barack Obama, Barron Trump, cheating, dignity, Donald Trump, elitism, EOS, evangelical, family values, fast food. McDonald's, food snobbery, golf, Good Morning America, Good Will Humping, hard-core porn, hush money, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, infidelity, Jerry Falwell, Jessica Drake, Lake Tahoe, Lonesome Rhodes, McDonald’s, Melania Trump, Michael Cohen, moral majority, porn, porn stars, religious right, sex scandals, Stephanie Clifford, Stormy Daniels, The Day Beast, The Witches of Breastwick, Wall Street Journal, Zingerman's |
By Mark | January 7, 2012
It’s been a while since I last coined a new phrase here. I like doing it, but, as they never really seem to catch on, I’ve become less inclined to put in the effort. (I’m still angry that my phrase “face taint”, for that area between one’s nose and upper lip, never caught on like […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs, sex, Uncategorized | Also tagged coining new words and phrases, crucifixion, face taint, feet, Jesus, nails, rapetainment, roof repair, rug burn, sexmata, stigmate, wounds |
My friend Gene had this pamphlet wedged into his front door a few days ago. And, as I haven’t ranted about “Jesus wants me to be rich” Christians in a while, I thought that I’d post it here. I’m not sure how these folks from the Korean church found Gene. They must have looked in […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged Add new tag, exurban, Koreans, Mega Church, Northridge, prosthelytizing, religion, religious pamphlets, self help Jesus |
