Tag Archives: paranoia

I got vaccine denial. What kind of crazy are you?

By Mark | March 4, 2014

As promised, I’ve kept adding to my super awesome social media quiz meme. Here’s my most recent contribution, followed by a number of others that were sent to me by friends, who apparently got inspired and wanted to join the “What Kind of Crazy” campaign with me… This is the most fun I’ve had since […]

Posted in Special Projects | Also tagged ancient astronauts, anti-science, Bill O'Reilly, body dysmorphic disorder, chemtrails, conspiracy theories, crazy, Duck Dynasty, FOX News, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Jeffrey Schrader, Jennifer Scroggins, Jenny McCarthy, Kim Novak, Kristin Schrader, Laura Goins, memes, Peter Smith, plastic surgery, religious fundamentalism, Stevo Doccerson, vaccinations | 19 Comments

The early American origins of the War on Christmas

By Mark | December 30, 2013

This holiday season Sarah Palin became the most recent in a long line of shameless conservative pundits to cash in on the so-called War on Christmas. Her book, “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” was released at the end of November to the delight of poorly informed Fox News-viewers everywhere. The […]

Posted in History, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bible, Bill O'Reilly, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Church of England, Easter, evangelical, Foolstide, FOX News, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, human sacrifice, Increase Mather, Jesus, Michael D. Hattem, nativity, pagan, persecution complex, Puritans, religious freedom, Roman, Sabbath, Sarah Palin, Saturnalia, secular saboteurs, secularism, The Junto, the secularist agenda, war on Christmas, wassailling | 12 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Johnny Lupinacci

By Mark | August 25, 2013

A few weeks ago, shortly after earning earning his PhD from Eastern Michigan University, local Ypsilanti activist John Lupinacci packed up all his belongings and headed west to begin his new life as a academic. Fortunately, though, I was able to track him down and force him to submit to an exit interview… Here are […]

Posted in Detroit, Special Projects, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged activism, adjunct faculty, Alfredo Martini, anarchy, anti-consumerism, beer, Beezy's, black bloc, blue-collar scholar, Bona Sera, Bona Sera Cafe, Boots Riley, Brite Idea Tattoo, Cafe Ollie, Capitalism, coffee, Coffee Bean, community, community schools, Cross Street, curriculum, Derrick Jensen, Dreamland Theater, Eastern Michigan University, education reform, EMU, exit interviews, grimy, Growing Hope, Hamtramck, Huron River, Ian MacKaye, Idaho, Jeffree St. John, Johnny Lupinacci, living systems, Moscow, Moscow Food Co-op, mutual aid, North Huron, Occupy Ypsilanti, One Word Cafe, organizing, Paul Horvath, Plymouth, political organizing, Pub 13, Pullman, rebellion, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside Park, Sean Fitzgerald, Smarty Catz, Social Foundations of Education, social justice, Target, teaching, Thomas Blondi Salon, Ugly Mug, urban chickens, urban farming, Washington State, Washington State University, Washington Street, wine, Woodruff's, working class, yoga, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Zapatismo | 11 Comments

Agenda 21… Are America’s city planners in on the United Nations plot to enslave us, and force us onto bicycles?

By Mark | November 26, 2012

There’s only one thing people on the far right hate more than the United Nations, and that’s the United Nations setting international guidelines for sustainable development. I learned this a few days ago, while listening to a special episode of Glenn Beck’s radio program about a secret UN initiative to deal with the looming threats […]

Posted in Environment, History, Observations, Other, Politics, Predictions, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1984, 1992, Agenda 21, Alabama, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-environment, Arizona, bike lanes, Chip Rogers, city planning, competing visions for the future of America, concentration camps, Conference on Environment and Development, conspiracy theories, corporatocracy, Delphi, deregulation, dyptopia, Earth Summit, Emmeline, fear mongering, Field Searcy, Georgia, Georgia State Senate, Glenn Beck, global climate change, Global Warming, Harriet Parke, mass transit, mind control, rationing, regulation, Republican National Committee, Republican platform, RNC, sprawl, suburbs, survival seeds, tea party, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of America, The Handmaid's Tale, the hijacking of the Republican party, the threat of Socialism, traffic circles, United Nations, urban sprawl | 26 Comments

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but the man thought to be the I-96 shooter appears to identify as a Tea Party activist

By Mark | November 8, 2012

An arrest has been made in the case of the I-96 shootings. A man from Wixom by the name of Raulie Wayne Casteel has been taken into custody. According to the Daily Tribune, “Casteel was charged with six counts of a combination of felonious assault, carrying with unlawful intent, felony firearms, and discharge of a […]