Tag Archives: rewriting history

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Newcombe Clark

By Mark | April 10, 2013

A week or so ago, in front of an audience at Conor O’Neills, I had the pleasure of conducting a live exit interview with Ann Arbor-born commercial real estate broker turned University of Michigan MBA Newcombe Clark, who will soon be leaving Michigan for Chicago. As there was still a great deal that we didn’t [...]

No Rubbers at Domino’s Farms: Tom Monaghan granted another temporary injunction against Obamacare contraception mandate by Judge Lawrence Zaktoff

By Mark | March 17, 2013

Finding common cause with the freedom fighters of the adult film industry, Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan won a big legal victory late last week, ensuring, at least for the time being, that he’d be able to keep his Michigan workplace condom-free. On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff ruled in Tom Monaghan’s favor, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Ave Maria, Boogie Down Productions, Catholicism, Christian dominionists, College Republicans, contraception, discrimination, Domino's Farms, Domino's Pizza, family planning, fundamentalist religion, hypocrisy, injunction, jimmy hat, Justin Zatkoff, Lawrence Paul Zatkoff, legal discrimination, Obamacare, religion, Scientology, separation of church and state, Texas, Tom Monaghan, University of Detroit Mercy | 22 Comments

Justin Zatkoff: “his past is coming back faster than he can erase it”

By Mark | November 15, 2012

A few days ago, I posted something about a former head of the Michigan College Republicans by the name of Justin Zetkoff, who, in an attempt to hide some embarrassing details about his past, threatened me, and a bunch of other folks, saying that we’d be sued pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan | Also tagged ArborWiki, College Republicans, DCMA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Justin Zatkoff, Ken Boyd, revisionist history, Steve Cherry, Streisand effect, Wikipedia | 8 Comments

Mitt Romney fires PBS’s Jim Lehrer on live television, during the first televised presidential debate

By Mark | October 3, 2012

My thoughts on the debate can be found below… For those of you who aren’t already obligated to worship at the alter of Honey Boo Boo tonight, and want to be in the company of other humans, it looks as though the presidential debate is going to be shown at a few places in the [...]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Hoff, Big Bird, bingo, Bush tax cuts, catch-phrase, Cindy Brady, debate, debates, desperation, Gangnam Style, Honey Boo Boo, Jim Lehrer, Joel Gilbert, libel, live blog, Obama, Obama's mother, PBS, porn, Presidential politics, racism, Republican lies, Romney, scandal, Simpson Bowles, slander, Solyndra, Thrift Score, zingers | 42 Comments

On Nikola Tesla’s birthday, I think it’s important to remember that he invented the world’s first cotton candy machine…

By Mark | July 10, 2012

…Unfortunately, the device never made it in the marketplace, as it was as big as a fucking house. I made this stupid joke to someone today, after stumbling across the above image of Tesla, who, had he not died at the hand of Edison, would have turned 156 today. Unlike most of my stupid jokes, [...]