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Glenn Beck announces his intention to build a Libertarian utopia, promising to bring the terrifyingly beautiful vision of Ayn Rand to life

By Mark | January 15, 2013

After teasing his audience for days with cryptic Disney Land imagery and the promise of incredible news, Glenn Beck, the vile charlatan who’s made a career of fleecing America’s most fearful and ignorant, announced that he intends to build a $2 billion Libertarian utopia in rural Texas loosely modeled on

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, Agenda 21, American Dream Labs, apprenticeship, Atlas Shrugged, Ave Maria, Ayn Rand, big government, child labor, David Barton, Disney Land, Galt's Gulch, Glenn Beck, hate, Independence Park, intentional community, John Galt, Jonestown, Libertarianism, Mark's big ideas, separation of church and state, Texas, The Jefferson Lies, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Monaghan, utopias, WallBuilders, Walt Disney | 31 Comments

More than a face in the crowd… Andy Griffith passes away at 86

By Mark | July 3, 2012

One of my favorite actors, Andy Griffith, died today, at the age of 86. If you’re not familiar with his work outside of the Mayberry R.F.D. universe, which is brilliant, by the way, I’d encourage you watch A Face in the Crowd (1957) by the controversial director Elia Kazan. (Kazan, as you may recall, outed [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged 1952, 1957, A Face in the Crowd, Andy Griffith, Andy Griffith Show, Budd Schulberg, celebrity, celebrity culture, child actors, con men, corporate media, corporatocracy, Don Knotts, Ed Sullivan, Elia Kazan, Glenn Beck, House Committee on Un-American Activities, laugh machines, Lonesome Rhodes, media mogul, monologues, red scare, Ron Howard, What it Was Was Football | 11 Comments

Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Lindsay Garinger

By Mark | May 9, 2012

I believe I first met Lindsay Garinger a few days after Arlo was born, at an Occupy Ypsi teach-in. She was pregnant, and, if I’m not mistaken, she was knitting. I’d seen her around before, and always assumed that she was a local. That, apparently, wasn’t the case, though… Here, with the whole story, is [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abortion, adoption, Ben Miller, Dreamland Theater, EMU, eye eating robots, home birth, Leggz, morning after pill, Nature Maid, Oxgyn Network, Patrick Elkins, Pleasuredome, Polliwog Farm, roller disco, Thom Elliot, twins, Vinyl Joe's, Water Street, Yoder, Ypsi immigration interview | 36 Comments

America is Doomed… and not for the reason these people think

By Mark | March 19, 2012

I had occasion to watch television for extended periods of time this weekend, and it certainly didn’t do much to dissuade me from my belief that ours is a paranoid and fearful culture in decline. Here are two examples. The first is a promo for a show called Doomsday Preppers on the National Geographic Channel. [...]

Posted in Ideas, Pop Culture, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged alcohol as currency, alternative currency, America is Doomed, Barbara Walters, Clementine, Discovery Channel, doomsday, Doomsday Bunkers, Doomsday Preppers, end times, fear, Guy McPherson, Joan Rivers, Mad Max, magic beans, National Geographic, National Geographic Channel, paranoia, Survival Seed Bank, survivalist, vaginal rejuvenation, vaginas | 21 Comments

HBO’s Frat House

By Mark | March 7, 2012

Somehow, up until this evening, when a friend shared a link by way of Facebook, I wasn’t aware of the controversy surrounding the 1998 HBO documentary Frat House. Apparently, the film, shot by Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, never aired on HBO, in spite of the fact that it won two Sundance Film Festival awards [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew Gurland, class, documentary film, frats, hazing, HBO, Muhlenberg College, reality television scandals, Sundance Film Festival, Taxicab Confessions, Todd Phillips | 14 Comments

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Glenn Beck announces his intention to build a Libertarian utopia, promising to bring the terrifyingly beautiful vision of Ayn Rand to life

More than a face in the crowd… Andy Griffith passes away at 86

Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Lindsay Garinger

America is Doomed… and not for the reason these people think

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