I wanted to write today about the fact that Republicans, having successfully passed a $1 trillion tax cut for America’s most wealthy, are now using the subsequent loss in federal revenue to justify devastating cuts to welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, but then two people wrote to me, telling me about how Donald Trump […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Clinton, Billy Bush, born again christian, Donald Trump, Focus on the Family, God, grab them by the pussy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, James Dobson, Medicaid, Medicare, Melania Trump, Paul Ryan, Pussy Sweat, religion, religious extremism, Sean Hannity, sexual misconduct, shithole, social security, Stormy Daniels, tax cuts, Vladimir Putin, welfare, Young and Anal |
Yesterday, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough commented on the fact that President Trump has a fake, framed Time magazine cover of himself hanging in over half a dozen of his golf resorts. [Brzezinski, among other things, had said, “Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of […]
Posted in Free Speech, Politics, Predictions, Rants, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged blackmail, bullying, cyber bully, Dana Loesch, demonization, Greg Gianforte, Joe Scarborough, lies, Lügenpresse, lying press, Melania Trump, Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe, National Enquirer, National Rifle Association, NRA, personal attacks, plastic surgery, post-truth, role models, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, separation of church and state, the future of journalism, threats to journalists, Wayne LaPierre |
Of all the baffling, cringeworthy, infuriating things that Trump has said over these past 99 days in office, I think this is the one that will stick with him to the end. What makes it so striking, I think, is its incredible simplicity and uncharacteristic truthfulness. In an age so full of lies, and so […]
By Mark | September 11, 2016
There’s important stuff that I should be writing about tonight, stuff that I know would earn a lot of “likes” on social media and give rise to some good, meaningful conversation, but, since re-watching the first few episodes of Start Trek the other night with the kids, I’ve gone down a bit of a rabbit […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged acting, alcoholism, another famous person has died, b-movies, Christopher Pike, crazy people, creative negotiations, curses, Gene Roddenberry, Grace Lee Whitney, James T. Kirk, Jeffrey Hunter, Joan 'Dusty' Bartlett, King of Kings, Laurel Goodwin, models, OCD, Spain, Start Trek, television, The Cage, The Longest Day, what if, Yeoman Janice Rand |
By Mark | August 11, 2016
A year or so ago, as you may recall, I interviewed filmmaker Brendan Toller about Danny Says, a documentary that he’d been working on concerning the life, adventures and cultural impact of Danny Fields, the man who, among other things, got the Stooges signed to Elektra in 1968, and later went on to become the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Blackfish, Brendan Toller, Brian Epstein, Danny Fields, Danny Says, Datebook, David Bowie, documentary, gay history, Gimme Danger, homosexuality, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, independent film, Jim Jarmusch, John Lennon, Magnolia Pictures, Mayor of Sunset Strip, more popular than Jesus, public relations, punk rock, Ramones, Rodney Bingenheimer, The Beatles, The Stooges, The Wolfpack |
