Last week, as the number of COVID-19 deaths started to climb across the United States, Donald Trump, always the salesman, felt the need to share a little good news. And, as he’d already been fact-checked to death over his false claim that a vaccine was “very close,” he decided to instead tell a story about […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Fauci, Arizona, Cesar Sayoc, Chloroquine, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, drugs, Hydroxychloroquine, irresponsible rhetoric, Kool-Aid, malaria, racism |
By Mark | February 23, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, rusty sliver of it that infected me 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of interviewing all of the zine folks that I respected back in the day, during the period which many of us still consider to be […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbott Labs, abortion, Agent 355, alcoholism, Alexis Buss, Alexis St. Martin, Alison Lewis, Ameoterone, American revolution, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, anarchists, anarchy, atheist, Auschwitz, Betsy Ross, Big Cheese, bioethics, bossicide, Brew Squat, Bruce Orr, cats, Centereach, cheese, cheese money, chocolate, clinical trials, death penalty, digestion, Dishwasher, documentary film, Donald McCabe, Donno Layton, drug development, Edgar Allan Poe, Eva Mozes Kor, experiments, France, Free Voice, freethinker, fuck, gene therapy, Guinea Pig Zero, Harper’s, health care, Hershey’s Kisses, human guinea pig, human test subjects, Indianapolis, International Workers of the World, IWW, James Bond, Jeff Kelly, Jesse Gelsinger, Johnson Space Center, Josef Mengele, Keffo, Kenosha, Kinko's, labor law, Lehigh Valley, liver, Long Island, lying, Mackinac Island, medical experimentation, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Nazis, Neptune, New Jersey, New York Times Magazine, Off Label, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, patient zero, Paul Gelsinger, Pennsylvania, Pete Jordan, pharmacokinetics, Phil Buchanan, Philadelphia, placebos, printing, Prozac, psych drugs, Randall Phillip, Ritalin, Robert Helms, scams, secret agents, sleep deprivation, SmithKline Beecham, squats, stomach, syphilis, Temp Slave, The Age of Reason, The Untold History of Zines, This American Life, Thomas Paine, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, twins, underground press, union organizing, unions, University of Pennsylvania, vasovagal syncope, William Beaumont, Wisconsin, Wobblies, Wooden Shoe Books, workplace violence, Wyeth-Ayerst, zines |
By Mark | January 15, 2013
After teasing his audience for days with cryptic Disney Land imagery and the promise of incredible news, Glenn Beck, the vile charlatan who’s made a career of fleecing America’s most fearful and ignorant, announced that he intends to build a $2 billion Libertarian utopia in rural Texas loosely modeled on Galt’s Gulch, the fictional community […]
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, Agenda 21, American Dream Labs, apprenticeship, Atlas Shrugged, Ave Maria, Ayn Rand, big government, child labor, David Barton, Disney Land, Galt's Gulch, Glenn Beck, hate, Independence Park, intentional community, John Galt, Libertarianism, Mark's big ideas, reality television, separation of church and state, Texas, The Jefferson Lies, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Monaghan, utopias, WallBuilders, Walt Disney |
It’s been hard for me to work up too much interest in the recent Mel Gibson revelations. I mean, I already knew that he was a self-righteous racist prick with a fetish for violence. But, there’s a new twist today that’s captured my attention. It seems as though Oksana Grigorieva, the woman the devout Catholic […]
Posted in Pop Culture | Also tagged Catholicism, conspiracy theories, domestic violence, Hutton Gibson, JFK, JFK assassination, Jim Jones, Mark Lane, Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva, Peoples Temple, racism, Rush to Judgement, the definitive Warren Commission, threats of violence |