⢠RIP Wes Craven. He wasnât the only Wheaton College graduate to give us nightmares, but his were a lot more fun.
⢠Joel Duff tries to make sense of yet another horrifically false statement from the Institute for Creation Research: âJesus quoted from Genesis about as much as all the other books of the Old Testament combined. Roughly half of Christâs references to Scripture were quotation from Genesis.â
Thatâs not even close to being true.
⢠Jubilee.
⢠âOhio Republicans are freaking out about the Denali name change.â And in doing so theyâre proving they donât actually care much about, like, history or facts.
Allow me to propose a compromise: Letâs have GMC rename this SUV the âYukon McKinleyâ and just call it even.
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Also too: If any of your friends or coworkers are spreading the urban legend that Denali is âthe Kenyan word for âBlack Power,'â then, yep, theyâre really, really racist. And really, really dumb. No reason to play âstupid or evil?â â the answer in their case is both.
But then youâd probably figured that out about them already from their âMake America Great Againâ hats. (Thx Loki for that last link.)
⢠Wendy Sloboda has the coolest tattoo story.
⢠We made it through August and through what Al Aronowitz called the âAugust Bluesâ:
August is the month when wars start. Itâs when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fist fights. People feel like theyâre going to burst. Sometimes they do. âŚ
August sometimes lasts until the sound of the ramâs horn. People move in September. School starts. Somehow the pulse revives. People begin to think about lighting fires for winter. Finally, August lets go like the leaves from the trees. And the weirdness ends.
Nancy LeTourneau hopes that September will revive us again, with the end of the slow-news silly season and the return to a less Trump-driven national politics. Maybe. Maybe not.
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