"Much obliged" isn't really just another way of saying "thank you," it's a way of saying more -- of making the abstraction of "thank you" concrete by reminding us that gratitude is meaningless unless it entails obligation. Read more
"Much obliged" isn't really just another way of saying "thank you," it's a way of saying more -- of making the abstraction of "thank you" concrete by reminding us that gratitude is meaningless unless it entails obligation. Read more
A member of the Trumpian Bethel Church has been arrested for an alleged $35 million Ponzi scheme. Something about that place seems to attract con-artists and their marks. Read more
Andy Stanley reminds me a lot of Earl Stallings. Read more
It seems like there's a scripted set of motions everybody goes through -- activists and administrators both -- that eventually helps treat the symptoms without ever addressing the underlying disease. Read more
• Kelly Monroe Kullberg is back in blackface: “With Election Looming, Astroturfing ‘Kullberg Network’ Reemerges.” On May 15, 2019, Snopes published an investigation into a network of over 20 Facebook pages that pushed “overtly Islamophobic, conspiratorial content” and painted “extreme, divisive right-wing rhetoric as having broad American support.” Our investigation revealed that these pages, with names like Jews & Christians for America and Blacks for Trump, were all actually run by evangelical activist Kelly Monroe Kullberg and her family. Nine days after our story,... Read more
These self-proclaimed prophets said God told them Trump would win. Trump lost (by a lot). So what do we make of these presumptuous "prophets"? Read more
One version of the story is at least 2,500 years old and the other is nearly 2,000, and those bitter fools are still sitting there, sulking, all these centuries later. In all that time, no one has figured out how to get them to come inside and join the party. Read more
Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day And I'm trying to get some rest Read more
In 2012, after Donald Trump's birtherism was proven to be a racist lie, Liberty University gave him an honorary degree because he had "single-handedly forced President Obama to release his birth certificate." Read more
Since I got my Garrison on earlier this week, I’ve been listening again to one of my favorite rock songs from recent years, the opening track from Titus Andronicus’ 2010 album, The Monitor, “A More Perfect Union.” What first hooked me with this song, I think, was the details of Patrick Stickles’ anxious, haunted drive from New Jersey to New England. That’s a trip I’ve made many times, including too many times in the context of dying parents. So. And... Read more
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