Tag Archives: Reddit

Don’t ask me how my weekend was…

By Mark | January 13, 2013

note: He deserves better than to be commemorated in the footnote of a post about my petty plumbing problems, but I did want to note the fact that, if not for the this little emergency of mine, I’d surely be posting something thoughtful tonight about the death of internet activist and political organizer Aaron Swartz. [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life | Also tagged Aaron Swartz, academic journals, access to information, basement, Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, information access, JSTOR, Michigan Power Rodding, plumbing, poop, privacy, problems in the basement, Science, sewage, shit, suicide | 27 Comments

Watching Fox News personalities critiquing Jon Stewart and what’s-his-name

By Mark | November 1, 2010

You might find this unbearable. If that’s the case, I’m sorry. I just love it, though. It’s so fun to watch them going on at length about how Stewart is tricking the American people into believing that he’s a real journalist. (The wildly spinning arm of the irony meter could power a small city.) Oh, [...]

Posted in Media | Also tagged Fox and Friends, FOX News, irony, Jon Stewart, pockets of animosity, Rally to Restore Sanity, Stephen Colbert, tea party | 8 Comments

Keep Fear Alive – October 30, 2010

By Mark | September 18, 2010

Well, it looks like we’d better order those tricorne hats and colonial wigs, and charter that bus for DC. It’s now official. Colbert accepted the bribe, and the Restoring Truthiness rally is going to happen on the Mall, in front of the Lincoln Memorial. It’s not going to be called the Restoring Truthiness rally, though. [...]

Posted in Media, Other, Politics, Special Projects | Also tagged colonial wig, DonorsChoose, fear, fear mongering, feces throwing, FOX News, Gathering of the Juggalos, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Keep Fear Alive, Million Man March, rallies, Rally to Restore Sanity, Restoring Truthiness, sanity, satire, Stephen Colbert, Tila Tequila, tricorne hat | 29 Comments

The moral of the story: stay away from Detroit gas stations

By Mark | February 22, 2010

I was just perusing Reddit, and happened across an interesting conversation about Detroit. The original post, which was entitled, “Just drove through Detroit and mistakenly got off the highway to get gas. How does a city like this exist in the western world?,” wasn’t terribly insightful, but I’m enjoying the bizarre comments that the subject [...]