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A Michigan man, following Trump’s lead, calls CNN to say, “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down.”

By Mark | January 23, 2018

This past July, in a post about our President’s war on the free and independent press, I shared the following quote from CNN contributor, and lifelong Republican, Ana Navarro, who had, at that point in time, just been a guest on ABC’s This Week, discussing Donald Trump’s heightened rhetoric against the press. “It is an […]

Posted in Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ana Navarro, anti-Muslim, April Ryan, Brandon Griesemer, CNN, death threats, Donald Trump, free press, future of journalism, Hitler, incite violence, incitement, International Federation of Journalists, Jeff Flake, journalism, Lügenpresse, lying press, Novi, racism, threats of violence, threats to Democracy, threats to journalists, totalitarianism, Vladimir Putin | 229 Comments

Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with humankind’s most important artists… Episode 6: Polly Yates

By Mark | January 4, 2015

This past summer, as I was killing knapwed at Water Street Commons, I had the good fortune of meeting Polly Yates, an artist from England who happened to be spending several weeks in Ypsilanti. After chatting with her a bit about her work, and the several pieces of artwork which have sprung up on Water […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amy Sacksteder, anonymity, art food sex and trauma, artist residency, Call the Midwife, Chicago, collage, Death, eye contact, Facebook, fish and chips, found objects, found photographs, ghosts, grief, interviews, Mark Dickson, midwifery, Neon Heater Gallery, Polly Yates, Roman Susan Gallery, salt and vinegar, sausage, savaloy, street food, surveillance culture, Taylor Ervin, Theresa Rickloff, weeding, YardWork, Ypsilanti Art Incubator, Ypsilanti Historical Society | 7 Comments

The tiny Russian pilots of Area 51

By Mark | May 17, 2011

Linette’s all freaked out tonight. She heard something on Fresh Air today about Area 51. Apparently, there’s a new book out by a journalist named Annie Jacobsen about the highly-restricted parcel of government land outside of Las Vegas, it’s history, and the many conspiracy theories that revolve around it. Most troubling for Linette was the […]

Posted in History, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1947, Annie Jacobsen, Area 51, black propaganda, book ideas, child-sized pilots, CIA, Cold War, conspiracy theories, human experimentation, Josef Mengele, Mark's big ideas, Nazi, nuclear arms race, Roswell, Soviet Union, UFO, Walter Bedell Smith, War of the Worlds | 21 Comments

Rand Paul: lunch counter Libertarian

By Mark | May 20, 2010

By now, you’ve no doubt heard that, yesterday, Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, who just won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, said that he would like to live in a world where segregated lunch counters were allowed. And, I’m not exaggerating. Paul, a Libertarian purist, said that, although he detests racism, he feels that […]