• RIP Harper Lee. Thanks for the book (both versions of it).
• “It can be bad or it can be really, really, really bad — take your choice.”
• A great deal of this is silly, but some of it is Moltmann-esque. These parts overlap.
• If you want to violate longstanding law and all precedent, just say you’re following “tradition.” That no such tradition exists because you just invented it won’t keep others from joining you in the lie.
• When Phyllis Schlafly finally dies, I will mourn because she died without first repenting of her many, harmful, egregious sins. I do not want her to die; I want her to be redeemed from the debauched evil and hate that has shaped her life.
If she dies without repenting, though, I will speak ill of the dead. And I will rejoice and sing like a Munchkin.
• In the past 18 months, Tennessee has required 39,121 single moms to take a drug test before allowing their children to receive about $165 in state aid. 39,056 of them passed the test.
• RIP Tom Mullica, oddball master of sleight-of-mouth.
The actual script for Damn Yankees includes stage directions such as “(pulls a lit cigarette from thin air)” without ever explaining how you, as an actor, are supposed to do such things. I learned to do them from Tom Mullica.
• On the Supreme Court vacancy, mega-church pastor John Hagee says …Wait, nevermind. John Hagee never gets to say anything ever again because Blood Moons.
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