Tag Archives: Virginia

Pro-choice Democrat Doug Jones does the unthinkable and defeats Judge Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore in Alabama

By Mark | December 12, 2017

A big, heartfelt “thank you” to the good people of Alabama tonight. With 97% of precincts reporting, today’s special Senate election has been called for Democrat Doug Jones, who looks to have defeated accused pedophile and confirmed racist Roy Moore by less than one percentage point. Jones seems to have won due to a combination […]

Posted in Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, Alabama, Arizona and Nevada, Bob Corker, deep state, Donald Trump, Doug Jones, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Jeff Flake, pro choice, pro-life, racism, Rad Paul, religious fundamentalism, Republican Party, Republicans, Richard Shelby, Robert Mueller, Roy Moore, Russia, Russiagate, Senate, Susan Collins, tax cuts, tax reform, the black vote, victory, write-in | 43 Comments

Democrats make significant gains, as voters indicate an abandonment of Trumpism

By Mark | November 7, 2017

Had former Enron lobbyist Ed Gillespie won Virginia’s gubernatorial race today, you can be certain that prospective Republican candidates everywhere would have taken notice and done their best to follow the same script… recreating themselves, as Gillespie did, in the image of Trump, talking nonsensically about hispanic gangs, confederate monuments, kneeling football players and sanctuary […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Archie Parnell, Christ Hurst, Danica Roem, Donald Trump, Ed Gillespie, ENRON, fear mongering, Georgia, Greg Gianforte, gun control, Jon Ossoff, Kim Guadagno, lobbying, Montana, New Jersey, Phil Murphy, prayer, Ralph Northam, Rob Quist, South Carolina, tax reform, transgender | 62 Comments

“Unite the Right” event draws America’s most deplorable racists to Charlottesville for a raging Nazi frat party

By Mark | August 11, 2017

Hundreds of Old Navy-wearing white supremacists carrying tiki torches from Pier One Imports gathered in Charlottesville tonight to chant “White Lives Matter” at the base of the Thomas Jefferson monument on the campus of the University of Virginia. Apparently, these men, led by Richard Spencer and other well known members of the professionally aggrieved set, […]

Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged anti-Semitism, blood and soil, Blut und Boden, Breitbart News, Charlottesville, David Duke, Detroit Red Wings, KKK, Matthew Heimbach, Mike Enoch, Old Navy, protests, racism, Red Wings, Richard Spencer, Robert E. Lee, Sebastian Gorka, Steve Bannon, Thomas Jefferson, tiki torches, Traditionalist Worker Party, Unite the Right, white nationalism, white nationalist, white supremacist, white supremacy | 57 Comments

Now we know the names of the men whose graves we just walked on in Jamestown

By Mark | July 28, 2015

Earlier this month, the family and I loaded up the car and drove south to Savannah, Georgia, making stops along the way at a number of significant historical sites. Among other places of interest, we visited Colonial Williamsburg, the site of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, and the “lost colony” of Roanoke. My favorite stop […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged archeology, astronauts, caltrops, cannibalism, chancel, colonialism, Douglas Owsley, England, English Colonies, Gabriel Archer, historic archeology, James River, Jamestown, Jamestown Rediscovery, Jamestowne, John Rolfe, King Philip III of Spain, lead, lead poisoning, Mars, Mars colonization, Pedro de Zuniga, reliquary, Robert Hunt, Sir Ferdinando Wainman, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Spain, spying, Virginia Company, We'll Make Our Kids Appreciate History If It Kills Us tour, where Pocahontas, William Kelso, William West | 8 Comments

Ypsi School Superintendent Benjamin Edmondson, vacation memories and complaints with my daughter Clementine, and all kinds of other awesome stuff …on tomorrow’s Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | July 17, 2015

After a few weeks off the air, The Saturday Six Pack will return tomorrow evening with an all new episode. Our first guest will be the new Superintendent of Ypsilanti Public Schools, Dr. Benjamin Edmondson, with whom we’ll be discussing the current state of K-12 education in Ypsilanti, the initiatives he’s already set in motion, […]