By Mark | September 13, 2020
It’s great that Joe Biden — who, despite what you might have heard from Donald Trump, is not hiding in his basement — appears to be pulling ahead in the polls as we’re entering the last 50 days of the race. We cannot afford, however, to take anything for granted. It’s difficult to believe, given […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Agriculture, border wall, call to action, China, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Freeland, get out the vote, health insurance, Joe Biden, national debt, Obamacare, pandemic, political contributions, public health, tariff, trade war, volunteering |
There was a protest against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in Lansing today… I get it. People want to put this behind them and get back to business-as-usual. They want to go back to work. They want a return of some kind of normalcy. And, apparently, they think that’ll happen if Governor Whitmer just lifts her […]
Posted in Free Speech, Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1918 flu, anti-science, Betsy DeVos, Confederate flag, coronavirus, Corporate Crime, corporate speech, COVID-19, DeVos, Donald Trump, double-peaked curve, flatten the curve, Gretchen Whitmer, guns, hair dye, Howard Markel, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, Lansing, MAGA, Michigan Conservative Coalition, Michigan Freedom Fund, Monica, Monica Echeverri Casarez, motor boat, pandemic, protest, public health, shelter in place, social distancing, zombies |
I thought, upon first pass, that this was something posted by a parody account. Sadly, though, it’s apparently real. This is an actual tweet from the President of the United States in the middle of a global pandemic. And, yes, he used the phrase, “the numbers are continuing to rise.” And they are. Only I’m […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Fauci, coronavirus, egomaniacal, General Motors, GM, Lordstown, narcissism, New York, pandemic, public health, quarantine, ratings, reality television, The Bachelor |
By Mark | January 13, 2020
While I’m tempted to make the case that my family’s Wise line goes all the way back to Colonel John Wise (1617-1695), who is thought to have arrived in the Virginia Colony from England in 1635, I think it’s probably more likely that the first Wise in my family to step foot in America was […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 11th Virginia Regiment, 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 14th Regiment of the Kentucky Cavalry, 1777, 1817, 1870, bounty lands, census, Civil War, Clark Wise, Clarke Wise, Colonel John Wise, Continental Army, Culpeper, Culpeper Minutemen, Daniel Morgan, David Avery, Defense of Philadelphia, exposure, Franklin County, Gabriel Long, genealogy, George Washington, Illinois, Invasion of Canada, James Monroe, Jefferson Davis Wise, John Anderson Wise, Julia Long, Kentucky, Lafayette’s Division, land bounty, Lavina Tipton, Leonardtown, Lord Cornwallis, Louvina J. Tipton, Lucinda Etherton Wise, Mark's ancestors, Marquis de Lafayette, Maryland, Matilda Gill, Matilda Gill Wise, Minnie Florence Wise, Minnie Wise Florian, Monterey, Morgan’s Rifles, muster, Owen County, pay stub, Revolutionary War, Richard Wise, Schuyler, Siege of Boston, slavery, Sniper, St. Mary's County, Stamping Ground, starving, surveying, Valley Forge, Virginia, Virginia colony, War of 1812, White Sulpher, William D. Wise, William Woodford, Wise, Woodford Brigade, Woodford’s Brigade, Wythe Thomas Wise |
My plan had been to get the kids to be and then write about the rampant narcissism displayed by Donald Trump in the face of tragedy, but then I saw that Burt Lancaster’s 1946 film noir The Killers was on TV, and I decided that, for the good of everyone around me, I needed to […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Dan Scavino, Dayton, Donald Trump, El Paso, grievance, Just Crack and Egg, narcissism, psychology, racism, Texas |
