By Mark | November 22, 2012 Last November, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written years ago. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them with new ones, but it occurred to me that altering this post, which is [...]
Posted in Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged Addams Family, AT&T, Charles Maynard, crooked politicians, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, holiday, human sacrifice, Infantazine, kids setting fire to stuff, Linette, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, OCD, Pat Maynard, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, tea party, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Ward Tomich, Yeti Load | According to reports emanating from the swirling gyre of paranoia and retardation that is the Willow Run Tea Party Caucus, it looks as though everyone’s favorite demagoguing mama grizzly, Sarah Palin, will be with us this weekend, promoting the overthrow of our democratically elected officials and extolling the virtues of corporate fascism. According to organizers [...]
Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Americans for Prosperity, business ideas, city services, David Koch, Koch brothers, Mark's big ideas, new ideas in retail, Patriots in the Park, performance art, public school teachers, tea party, Thayrone X, Thom Elliott, uninsured children, welfare queens, Willow Run Tea Party Caucus, Ypsilanti Fire Department, Ypsilanti police department, Ypsilanti Township | To all of my friends in Wisconsin who didn’t vote yesterday, I hate you. Not only are you responsible for keeping the unabashed corporate shill Scott Walker in office, but, more importantly, you’re responsible for ruining my first Netroots Nation conference. OK, maybe I’m overstating things a bit. I’m sure the conference will be just [...]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ALEC, campaign finance reform, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporatocracy, election finance reform, get the money out of Washington, Greg Sargent, Koch brothers, labor, Milwaukee, money as free speech, money in politics, Move to Amend, recall, Reince Preibus, robocalls, Russ Feingold, Scott Walker, Tom Barrett, unions, voter fraud, We Are Wisconsin, Wisconsin | Generally speaking, I’d rather watch the elderly practice ballroom dancing at the gym than turn my attention to the overhead television, which is invariably tuned to the Today Show. I made an exception this morning, though, as the happy gang of falsely-laughing, purveyors of faux-news were “reporting” on their network’s most recent stunt-casting coup. (Apparently, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Curry, babies, dead babies, dead kids, insane people, Matt Lauer, morning news, Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Reborn Dolls, Today Show | By Mark | February 15, 2012 Here, while I’m working on my epic post about the showdown shaping up between Romney and Santorum in Michigan, is a trailer for a new film about those Nazis that have been biding their time on the dark side of the Moon. [You know how we're always talking about the Finnish education model on this [...]
