• The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for our area for a storm “capable of producing quarter-size hail.” Check. They got the timing right, too — 3:45 to 4:30 p.m.
The photo here is from about 10 minutes after Round 1 of the hailstorm (and about 10 minutes before Round 2), so these are smaller than when they fell. Mostly dimes, but plenty of quarters and a few scary 50-cent pieces in the mix.
Kudos to the craftsmen who built the skylight in our bathroom, and to the engineers and bureaucrats who wrote the standards and regulations for such things. Watching chunks of ice bouncing off of that was kind of suspensefully thrilling there for a bit.
• Jamie the Very Worst Missionary writes about pastor’s kids, including her kids, noting that “Not All Pastor’s Kids Are Christian. Sorry.” As a companion piece to that, let me recommend “Observations From My Dad Upon Finally Watching The Devil Wears Prada Last Night,” or maybe “The Only Time I’ve Ever Been to Connecticut” both of which show that the children of even Reformed evangelical mega-church pastors can grow up to be relatively high-functioning members of society.
• Hey, can you guess what The Liar Tony Perkins just did? Did you guess that he lied? Because that is what The Liar Tony Perkins just did. Again. Still. Always.
I’m not sure it’s even accurate anymore to speak of separate, discrete lies told by The Liar Tony Perkins — only of slices or segments of his endless, steady stream of ever-flowing mendacity. This particular slice is one of Perkins’ standard stand-bys — a favorite lie he tends to repeat on every similar occasion.
May 17 was Armed Forces Day. Here is President Obama’s Proclamation for Armed Forces Day, issued the day before — in public, on the record (not, like, in secret or something). And here is The Liar Tony Perkins’ fundraising email, sent two days later, in which he says that President Obama “couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge Armed Forces Day.”
I often discuss The Liar Tony Perkins’ contemptuous disregard for the truth, but let’s also note his utter contempt for the people whose donations provide him such a nice living. He thinks they’re stupid and unsophisticated — incapable of using Google — and that he can tell them anything and have them swallow it without checking, without question, without hesitation.
The fact that TLTP is right about the gullibility of his followers doesn’t excuse his condescension and his predatory treatment of these poor suckers.
• Art Pope’s Brigade, a.k.a., Republican legislators in North Carolina, recognize that fracking involves the use of dangerous, volatile and toxic chemicals, so they’re acting to ensure that no harm comes to the companies using those chemicals, and to protect them from first responders.
• I’m a big fan of actor Don Cheadle, and I’m also a fan of evangelical climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. I wouldn’t have guessed that they’d be appearing together in a new Showtime series, but count me intrigued. The first episode of The Years of Living Dangerously is available free on YouTube. Anybody seen it?
• Since I posted some David J. music the other day, let me close here with him playing bass for his other band, Bauhaus. You can click play on this and then treat it as the soundtrack while perusing these 1909 photos of “Bela Lugosi as Jesus Christ.”
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