Mark Maynard | Jesus

Shadow Art Fair preview: Black Metal Bicycle

By Mark | July 17, 2013

One of the things I’m most looking forward to at this Saturday’s Shadow Art Fair is my friend Andy Claydon’s Black Metal Bicycle. Andy and I have been discussing the idea for weeks, but I didn’t get word, until just a few days ago, that all of his tinkering had finally payed off, and that, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Shadow Art Fair, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Andy Claydon, bicycles, black metal, Black Metal Bicycle, death metal, Krampus, metal, Ramones | 16 Comments

The subject of poverty finally makes its way into the presidential campaign

By Mark | September 15, 2012

As I’ve mentioned before, I was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the day before Robert Kennedy arrived there to begin his tour of Appalachia. I don’t know that it explains why, over the course of my life, I’ve been so drawn to Kennedy, but it’s an odd coincidence, I think, and I find it hard to […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Appalachia, assassination, Baptists, Bruce D. Meyer, budget cuts, Bush tax cuts, Christian, Christianity, Conference of Catholic Bishops, entitlements, faith based initiative, homelessness, hunger, hunger in America, James X. Sullivan, John Edwards, Kairos Prison Ministry International, Kentucky, Lexington, Martin Luther King, Matthew Yglesias, MLK, National Association of Evangelicals, Obama, poverty, poverty tour, Presidential politics, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Romney, social safety net, tax the rich, The Circle of Protection, wealth inequality, welfare | 14 Comments

Did Jesus exist?

By Mark | June 17, 2012

Earlier today, a reader by the name of Edward, in hopes of stirring shit up with our of our resident trolls, who happens to be an evangelical, conservative Christian, shared the image to the right. It’s not something that I would typically move up to the front page, but I found the subsequent conversation interesting, […]

Posted in History, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bart Ehram, Chrestus, Christianity, Cornelius Tactus, darkness, Doug Skinner, EOS, Flavius Josephus, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Judaea, Pliny the Younger, Rat Pack, religion, Sammy Davis Jr, Thallus, UFOs | 60 Comments

The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again

By Mark | April 16, 2012

I was all set to write about Tupac, and how I’d known that he was a hologram all along, but then I started reading about today’s failure by the Senate to act on the so-called Buffet Rule, which would have imposed a minimum tax of 30% to all individuals making more than one million dollars […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Buffett Rule, Chuck Schumer, class warfare, Coachella, Eric Cantor, holograms, income inequality, Joint Committee on Taxation, Jon Kyl, Maine, Mitt Romney, national debt, payroll tax, progressive taxation, small government, small government Jesus, Susan Collins, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, Tupac, Warren Buffett | 26 Comments

Speaking on behalf of Christ, Santorum warns of Obama’s plans to feast on the blood of euthanized seniors

By Mark | February 20, 2012

I heard a comedian by the name of John Fugelsang do a pretty brilliant bit the other day on the incredible disconnect between the teachings of Jesus and the actions of those who invoke his name in the pursuit of political power. It’s nothing we haven’t discussed here before, but I enjoyed Fugelsang’s perspective, given […]

Posted in Observations, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism | Also tagged abortion, American Heartland Forum, assisted suicide, beastiality, Bible, charity, Christianity, crazy things people think that Obama wants to do, euthanasia bracelets, euthanasia of seniors, fear mongering, Focus on the Family, gay marriage, health care, homeschooling, hypocrisy, Iran, James Dobson, John Fugelsang, nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama is the Antichrist, Obamacare, religion, Santorum, tea party, terrifying the elderly, The Netherlands, theocracy, what would Jesus think | 39 Comments

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Shadow Art Fair preview: Black Metal Bicycle

Did Jesus exist?

The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again

Speaking on behalf of Christ, Santorum warns of Obama’s plans to feast on the blood of euthanized seniors

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