Historian Kristen du Mez tells us how a sort of liberal Baptist

megachurch sent evangelicals down the path of insanity:


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$195 mill for a Warhol painting? That's inflation...

It's called demand pull inflation (as opposed to cost-push inflation) because there is simply too much money in the wrong places.

You want conspiracy? I got your conspiracy right here...

(wow! I was finishing the post, it posted and I got a "forbidden" message)

Moving right along, though, I was refreshing my memory about Dorothy Kilgallen and it led me to zillion JFK conspiracies, most of which I remember from back in the 60s.

Nowadays, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and few others hold the spotlight-- even Jackie is suspected of at least being in on it, maybe even to have planned it. Kilgallen thought she was targeted and gave her notes to coworker, who was found dead a few days later.

JFK conspiracies weren't slowed down by the missing camera frames, Jack Ruby, or LBJ locking up pertinent info. Grassy knoll you say...

Most everyone alive back then is dead, or too young then to be seriously involved, but someone, some day, might put it together.

I'm listening to Fresh Air and Rosie Perez is the guest..

She's talking about her early life living in the covent, dancing as a lark when she was planning to be a marine biologist. And when she had no idea who Spike Lee was.

She's a lot more than I thought she was.

Been thinking, if Musk actually buys Twitter and ruins it...

at least 60% of DU's posts will go down with it.

So, I'm listening to BBC talking about a bunch of women...

First, a huge boxing match setting Garden records with two women coming close in points and one of the better boxing matches of the decade. There will be a rematch.

That was about two minutes, and I don't even care about two heavyweights beating the shit out of each other, much less two women. This modern version of gladiator battles talks a big deal about the health of the participants, but the audience still wants blood.

After that was a good half hour about Four Daughters Farm in Australia. The Four Daughters (and there's a lot more family involved) are in their 20s and maybe 30s and actually love the ranch life. Managing thousands of head of cattle and millions of Aussie dollars in equipment, they tried the city for a while but hated it. One actually said somebody has to shovel the cowshit, and she would happily be in line. (if she had to...)

The 4 Daughters piece was actually inspiring-- the girls were brought up on the farm while nothing seems to go your way in farming, they love it and had a great outlook. I don't doubt that if someone looks they'll find similar operations here in the US, and around the world.

Pence was just following an old trend...

How dare he brag about avaccine he had almost..

nothing to do with.

A vaccine that was an outgrowth of SARS and other antivirus work done for years.

A vaccine he did his damndest to get us to ignore.

A vaccine he disparaged for a disease he said either didn't exist or wasn't so bad.

Cops let a deli owner go after a drunken-driving crash. He got back behind the wheel and died at 100

This is an old story, from 2013, but seems the investigation may be ramping up.

https://tv.newsday.com/watch/long-island/investigations/suffolk-police-peter-fedden-crash-md94u7lr#utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsdayTV&lctg=488b6daefdbcbb1944bac96b064b714fa6338a408e28ac9690ba176d08ace1&utm_term=non

If the link doesn't work, 29 year-old Fedden bought the deli and was busted for drunken driving. Allowed by the cop to "go home and sleep it off" he sped up and killed himself in a big crash later that night.

Turns out that he fed the cops breakfast in his deli.

I came across this superb (if a liitle lengthy) speech by MI...

state senator after accusation by R that she's pedophile. We need more of this. A lot more. Just cut them off at the knees.

https://twitter.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/1516453738403143681?s=20&t=7sz4S4rNXceYZPX_tw0XZg

It seems this has made the rounds already. Here's CNN's Don Lemonv bit:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/04/20/mallory-mcmorrow-michigan-state-senate-intvu-dlt-vpx.cnn