Yesterday morning, at approximately 11:00 AM, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white male wth a history of racist views, walked into the Walmart next to El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall with an AK-47-style assault rifle, and proceeded to take the lives of 20 human beings. While some on the right, like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, are […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 8chan, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, assault rifles, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, background checks, Beto O'Rourke, border wall, call to action, call to violence, Charlottesville, Christchurch, conspiracy theories, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, Drudge Report, El Paso, gamification, go back to where you came from, go back to your countries, Great Replacement, Greg Abbott, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, impeachment, incitement to violence, infested, invasion, levitate the Pentagon, levitation, manifestos, mass murder, mass shootings, mental illness, Mexico, New Zealand, NRA, Nuremberg, Patrick Crusius, racism, Renaud Camus, Texas, The Inconvenient Truth, universal background checks, violence on the extreme right, Walmart, white nationalism, white supremacist, Will Hurd |
By Mark | December 10, 2017
I was about a half hour into the 1942 horror classic Cat People last night, when I decided to take a break and do a little research into the film’s Russian-born producer, Val Lewton. Well, one thing led to another, and I fell asleep listening to episode number three of Karina Longworth’s brilliant podcast, You […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1761, 1946, Age of Reason, b-movies, Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Boris Karloff, Cat People, cruelty, Film, Glen Vernon, gold, Goldfinger, horror, It's a Wonderful Life, James Bond, Jill Masterson, John Monro, Karina Longworth, Korina Longworth, mental asylum, mental illness, old man Gower, podcasts, RKO, skin asphyxiation, Val Lewton, You Must Remember This |
By Mark | November 5, 2017
While we still don’t have all the details, it looks as though 25 people were shot and killed while attending church in Sutherland Springs, Texas today. Regardless of the circumstances, I suspect, in the days and weeks to come, some will come forward, like they always do, to say that, if only there were more […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Uncategorized | Also tagged Australia, Donald Trump, good guys with guns, Greg Abbot, gun control, guns, mandatory gun ownership, Martin Bryant, mass murder, national firearms registry, NRA, Port Arthur, Sutherland Springs, Tasmania, terrorism, Texas, the power of prayer, waiting period |
By Mark | February 14, 2017
This year, for my birthday, Linette ordered a “weighted blanket” for me. Well, it came today, and I’m laying under it right now, struggling to fill my lungs. I can see the appeal. It’s comforting. It’s like the lead apron you have to wear at the dentist’s office when you’re having X-rays taken. I’ve yet […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arlo, hug machine, Linette, Mark's birthday, OCD blogger, serotonin, sleep, Temple Grandin, weighted blanket |
This evening I attended the Unity Town Hall at Eastern Michigan Union, during which Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Black Lives Matter Organizer Myles McGuire, Wahstenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher of the Michigan ACLU’s Racial Justice Project, and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie sat before an audience of about 250, responding to questions about civil […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACLU, Aura Rosser, black lives matter, Brian Mackie, de-escalation, Debbie Dingell, dismantling of public education, drugs, fear, Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher, Mobile Justice, Myles McGuire, police violence, public education, Racial Justice Project, Seattle, slavery, social work, threats to public education, Unity Town Hall, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Prosecutor |
