• Agent Carter returns on January 9.
• This is why next summer, when I’m outside at dusk, I may smell pretty.
• Also from Consumerist, please delight in this new corporate euphemism: “Product acceptance challenges.” Political consultants take note — this may be a useful phrase in the future when having to explain your candidate’s failure to get any traction in the 2016 presidential primaries.
• We’re all between perdition and the deep blue sea. Click the sheet music there to the right and you’ll head to YouTube for Kay Kyser’s rendition of “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.”
Sending that one out by special request to Bill Blankschaen over on Patheos evangelical channel. “ISIS needs the Gospel — and a Good Bombing,” Blankschaen writes, because “Love sometimes requires both a hug and a hand grenade.”
He’s also written a book to “help Christians live an authentic life with abundant faith while living in, but not of, a fallen world.” Ooh. Tell me more about how I, too, can have more abundant faith in bombs and hand grenades — sounds authentic!
• I may be disappointed if they ever manage to learn this lesson, but anti-gay right-wingers really, really need to stop obsessively protesting that human decency is being “shoved down” their “throats.”
• We’ve discussed this before, but any excuse to read it again is worth taking: Jordan Anderson’s letter to his former “master.” His final sentence — “Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me” — is possibly the most devastating mic-drop I’ve ever read.
• A limerick from Kim Fabricius:
Imagine a Calvinist, hyper,
more pity you’ll find in a viper,
so full of elation
at hell and damnation –
no need to imagine – it’s Piper!
• This is a true story. Never bet against the world being a stranger place than you’d expected.
• This is also strangely true. And now I may need to start reading the “Dear Prudence” column.
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