By Mark | December 20, 2016
Earlier today, just as our Electors were casting their votes for Donald Trump, paving the way for the controversial reality television personality to become the 45th President of the United States, Andrew Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, was shot dead in Ankara by a young policeman who can be heard on video shouting “We […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged al-Nusra Front, Aleppo, Allahu Akbar, Andrew Karlov, Ankara, Arab Spring, assassination, Austria, Bashar al-Assad, black flags, Civil War, Clementine, Damascus, democracy, Donald Trump, Franz Ferdinand, Free Syrian Army, ISIL, Islamic State, Khmeimim, Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, Kurds, Mediterranean, Middle East, Russia, Salafi, Sarajevo, Serbia, Shia Alawite, Sunni, Sunni Arab, Syria, Tartus, terrorism, totally quotable Clementine, Turkey, WWIII |
By Mark | November 11, 2015
I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1918, Armistice Day, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, military, military budget, veterans, Veterans' Day, war, WWII |
By Mark | November 11, 2013
I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Other | Also tagged 1918, Armistice Day, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, military, military spending, November 11, Veterans' Day, WWII |
Some of you may remember Laura Bien. Up until about a year ago, she blogged as the YpsiDixit. Well, I’m happy to report that she’s come out of retirement. Laura has launched an engaging new site dedicated to the research of local Ypsilanti history, mainly though the exploration of surviving first-person narratives. The site is […]
Posted in History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1830, 1874, 1918 flu, 1919, Allie McCullough, blogging, calomel, Carrie Hardy, Cholera Wars, City Archives, debility and suffering, diaries, Dusty Diary, eland tuberculosis sanitarium, facial and jaw deformities, hair and tooth loss, History, history of medicine, inadvertent discoveries en route to something else, Laura Bien, mass graves, mercury, mercury poisoning, neurotoxic, storytelling, Tom Dodd, Twitter, YpsiDixit |
