Three people have written to me over the past 24 hours requesting that I start a thread on the riots that are currently raging in Baltimore. This post is for them. If not for their notes, I don’t think I would have mentioned it here. It’s not that I don’t care that Freddy Gray was […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baltimore, David Simon, Freddie Gray, John Angelos, LBJ, MLK, police violence, race, riots, The Wire |
By Mark | October 1, 2009
One of our regular readers, a fellow by the name of Robert, occasionally leaves odd and interesting comments here on the site. Generally speaking, they pertain to either election tampering, or murder. Following is a comment that he left today on the death of Michael Jackson. Though Dr. Conrad Murray is only being charged with […]
Posted in Pop Culture | Also tagged angioplasty, chefs with suspicions, Chris Penn, Conrad Murray, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorist, contract killings, David Carradine, Evi Quaid, Heath Ledger, Latoya Jackson, London, manslaughter, Natasha Richardson, once in a lifetime opportunity, organized crime, personal physician, Randy Quaid, Robert, syringe job, This Is It, Vegas |
My friend Scott Huffines, the founder of Baltimore’s beloved Atomic Books, claims to have taken this shot of his television this morning. I’m hoping, for the sake of our country, that he’s lying, but I don’t think that he is. Regardless of its authenticity, I think it’s beautiful.
Posted in Other, Pop Culture | Also tagged Atomic Books, Baltimore, CNN, Jesus, knothole, Ray Bolger, Scott Huffines, the sad state of journalism, the Scarecrow, tree, Wizard of Oz |
I was going to post something about Michael Jackson’s passing the other day, but nothing seemed to work. I wrote for hours, but just couldn’t find the right balance. So, I’d made up my mind that I wasn’t going to post anything at all. Then, today, I stumbled across a video of 11 year old […]