Tag Archives: sexual assault

I was going to post something completely different tonight, but here’s Oprah’s Golden Globes speech

By Mark | January 7, 2018

“I want all of the girls watching here now to know, that a new day is on the horizon.” Here is Oprah’s full speech accepting the 2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/x2siib4WZI — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 8, 2018

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #metoo, 2020, Hollywood, Oprah, sexism, women's rights | 205 Comments

Calling the recent child molestation accusations a “desperate political attack,” far-right Christian folk hero Roy Moore assures his supporters that he’ll continue his run for Senate

By Mark | November 14, 2017

Well, it looks like I was right a few days ago, when, channeling my inner Johnnie Cochran, I proclaimed, “Where there are four, you know there are more.” This afternoon, an Alabama woman by the name of Beverly Young-Nelson came forward to announce that she too had been sexually assaulted by Republican Senate candidate Roy […]

Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism, sex, Uncategorized | Also tagged 9/11, abortion, Alabama, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim, attempted rape, Beverly Young-Nelson, Bill Armistead, Breitbart, Breitbart News, child molestation, child molesters, Claire McCaskill, Dinesh D'Souza‏, Dinesh D’Souza, fake news, Gadsden, Gloria Allred, Gloria Thacker Deason, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Jeff Flake, John Cornyn‏, Johnnie Cochran, KKK, Leigh Corfman, malls, Mitch McConnell, Old Hickory House, pedophiles, pedophilia, pizzagate, religious extremism, Roe v. Wade, Roy Moore, sodomy, Susan Collins, Ted Cruz, violence, witch hunts | 64 Comments

Morbid Reflection: Michigan Horror Films 1976-2014

By Mark | October 24, 2017

This weekend, my friend Forest Juziuk is going to be hosting a festival called Morbid Reflection: Michigan Horror Films 1976-2014 at Planet Ant’s new Ant Hall in Hamtramck. You can find ticket information at the end of this post, but, first, here’s a short conversation between Forest and myself about how the festival came together, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan | Also tagged Aaron Dilloway, America’s Funniest Videos, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Atman, Back From Hell, beds, beds that eat buckets of chicken, beds that eat hands, Border Angels, Brian Hunter, cats, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, Demon Lover, Demons, Devil Master, domestic violence, Donald Trump, Everything Is Terrible!, Evil Dead, Film, film festivals, film trailer, Forest Juziuk, Frank Zappa, Ghost Light, Halloween On Christmas, Harmony Korine, HAVEN, horror, horror movies, It Follows, Jeremy Wheeler, Kye Potter, Matt Jaissle, Memory Hole, Morbid Reflection, murder, Planet Ant, Planned Parenthood, psychedelic, Purple Rain, Purple Rain: Terror Beyond Belief, Ruth Ellis Center, Sean Curtis Patrick, The Carrier, Toshio Matsumoto, Trash Humpers, University of Michgan, VHS, Wolf Eyes, zines | 3 Comments

So, what happens on November 9?

By Mark | October 17, 2016

During this past weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, I talked at some length with Scott Hagerstrom, the Michigan director of the Trump Pence 2016 campaign, about both the possibility of polling place discord on November 8th, as a result of Trump supporters attempting to suppress the vote in “certain areas”, and the likelihood […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Pop Culture, Rants, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, ACORN, assassination, birther, Boston Globe, Breitbart News, Cincinnati, conspiracy theories, Dan Bowman, Donald Trump, election fraud, endorsements, facts, future of journalism, global climate change, Global Warming, GOP, hacking, Hillary Clinton, hot mic, illegal immigration, independent press, investigative press, Jared Kushner, Married with Children, Matt Bevin, Media, media literacy, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, President Camacho, Presidential politics, pussy, pussy grabbing, racism, reality television, rebellion, reform, Republican Party, revolution, rigged elections, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Scott Hagerstrom, Steve Bannon, Steve Schmidt, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the collapse of the Republican party, the hijacking of the Republican party, The November 9 War, the sad state of journalism, the short attention spans of Americans, threats to journalists, unshackled, Values Voter Summit, Vladimir Putin, vote tampering, voter suppression, voting, voting rights | 47 Comments

“Grab ’em by the pussy” …my thoughts on the hot mic confession of sexual assault that may change the course of human history

By Mark | October 9, 2016

Earlier this summer, we talked here on the site about the possibility that Trump might have a Dead Zone moment – a moment in which, in front of the entire nation, he would reveal to us something so absolutely shocking about himself that we could not help but to turn away collectively in disgust, once […]