By Mark | November 25, 2016
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
By Mark | January 15, 2016
I had an incredible post planned for last night, which I know you would have loved. But, two hours into writing it, I curled up next to my toasty warm laptop and fell asleep. So, here’s what I’ve got for you instead… the USA Freedom Kids lip syncing their jingoriffic knock-off of the 1917 hit […]
Posted in Observations, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anger, angry old white men, angry white men, bone spurs, child cruelty, deferment, Donald Trump, draft dodging, Florida, freedom, freedom boner, heroism, Hitler, Hitler Youth, Jeff Popick, jingoism, John McCain, Pensacola, USA Freedom Kids, Vietnam, whitey |
Appearing on stage in Ames, Iowa today at something called the Family Leadership Summit, presidential candidate Donald Trump had the above to say about Republican Senator John McCain, with whom he’s recently been at war on the subject of immigration. [Trump, it would seem, has an issue with McCain for not believing, as he does, […]
Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged chicken hawk, Donald Trump, Hanoi Hilton, immigration, John McCain, memes, Sarah Palin, tea party, torture, Unimpressed Trump, Vietnam |
Late last week, Karl Pohrt, the driving force behind Ann Arbor’s historic Shaman Drum book shop, passed away at the age of 65 after a long battle with thyroid cancer. Having been an admirer of his work over the years, I’d wanted to mention his passing on the site, and offer up a place for people […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged American culture, Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection, artifacts, book stores, Buddhist, Buffalo Bill Museum, Christianity, conscientious objector, Death, Detroit Institute of the Arts, DIA, Five Guys, fuck cancer, good bosses, Ian Fulcher, Jean Herny, jobs, Karl Pohrt, Keith Taylor, life after death, native american, native american artifacts, Patrick Elkins, people who make a difference, people who will be missed, people whom I respect, Plains Indian, Raymond McDaniel, Richard A Pohrt, sangha, Shaman Drum, sincerity, University of Michigan |
Chris Hedges, who I often quote here, just interviewed Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, hastening the end of the Vietnam war, and contributing toward the downfall of Richard Nixon. And, as it’s been a while since we’ve discussed the increasing severity with which our nation has been cracking […]
Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged Bradley Manning, Chris Hedges, corporatocracy, Daniel Ellsberg, Espionage Act, fear mongers, FISA, foreign affairs, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Iran, Iraq war, lies, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, Obama, Patriot Act, Pentagon Papers, propaganda, Richard Nixon, security state, Surveillance State, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Tonkin Gulf, torture, totalitarianism, war crimes, whistle blower |
