Mark Maynard

Deficits v. Dolomite

By Mark | August 13, 2019

My plan tonight was to write an awesome post about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut of 2017, and how, contrary to what we were promised at the time, they didn’t “pay for themselves” by driving increased corporate investment, but instead pushed the federal deficit to a record-breaking $747.1 billion. None of this, of course, is […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Economics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1975, bonuses, budget deficit, canes, Congressional Budget Office, corporate welfare, Dolemite Is My Name, Dolomite, Eat Out More Often, Eddie Murphy, entitlements, film ideas, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, karate, kung fu, Los Angeles, Mark's, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, Netflix, Rudy Ray Moore, Russ Forster, social security, Steven Mnuchin, tax cuts, theology of tax cuts, Tony Clifton, Treasury Secretary, Trump tax cuts, welfare, welfare reform, XXX | 35 Comments

Like the Watergate burglars, only dumber

By Mark | January 27, 2010

Remember James O’Keefe, the guy who, about six months ago, made a name for himself by dressing like what a well-off, white suburban kid thinks that a pimp looks like, and telling ACORN workers that he wanted to open brothels in their neighborhoods? Well, he’s back in the news today. It seems as though he […]

Posted in Media, Politics, Pop Culture | Also tagged ACORN, Andrew Breitbart, bugging phones, bugs, dirty political tricks, domestic terrorism, dressing up in costumes and lying to people, espionage, G Gordon Liddy, James O'Keefe, Joseph Basel, listening devices, Louisiana, Pelican Institute, phone company, racism, racist buffoonery, rat fucking, RNC, Robert Flanagan, Rutgers alumni, Stan Dai, tapping phones, U.S. Attorney, Watergate, William J. Flanagan | 41 Comments

Life after prostitution in Ypsilanti

By Mark | August 4, 2009

It doesn’t happen terribly often, but occasionally something will happen on this site that will remind me why I spend several hours each night, hunched over this little computer screen, churning posts out into the abyss. Today, was one of those days. An amazing comment was left in an old thread about local prostitution, and […]

Posted in Other, Ypsilanti | Also tagged addiction, alcoholism, attempted suicide, bad parenting, Blondell, cautionary tales, child abuse, Dilaudid, domestic violence, foster care, gun violence, Hash Bash, heroin, hitchhiking, homelessness, Hubba Bubba, jail, Kincheloe, life on the street, Michigan Avenue, molestation, morphine, prostitution, rape, Sault St. Marie, second chances, Social Services, turning your life around | 47 Comments

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