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, Jonestown, malaria, racism |
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, Germany, grab them by the pussy, guns, Hitler, human sacrifice, Hungary, Icarus, Italy, Japanese game shows, 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 |
By Mark | October 26, 2015
Not too long ago, my friend Mike White turned me onto Love Boat Insanity, a Tumblr account dedicated to the exploration of alternate universe Love Boat passengers. It’s not only hilariously funny, but it’s got me thinking seriously about picking half a dozen or so of the individuals who have been proposed thus far, and […]
By Mark | November 18, 2014
36 years ago today, a charismatic, and increasingly paranoid Jim Jones commanded the assembled members of the Peoples Temple, who had followed him from the United States to the jungles of Guyana, to take their own lives by ingesting a cyanide-infused knock-off of Kool-Aid called Flavor-Aid. Despite the fact that Jones can be heard referring […]
Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged cults, cyanide, drink the Kool-Aid, Flavor Aid, Guinea Pig Zero, Guyana, Jim Jones, Julia Scheeres, Julie Ann Runnels, mass murder, mass suicide, Peoples Temple, revolutionary suicide, Robert Helms, Time magazine |
