Resellers get a bum rap in the thrift world. “Do they regularly flip through thrift stores, pulling the best pieces from communities that could benefit from them in order to make a profit? Is there no winning here?”

When I was 14 I worked at a summer camp. Sadly, not as a counselor doing cool stuff, but on the camp maintenance staff. Basically, my days consisted of outhouses. Painting them, repairing them, and cleaning them. You can imagine what 600 boys away from their parents for the first time, with questionable hygiene and…

It’s basically happening here in Kentucky. Water systems are collapsing in the towns because there is not enough population left to support the infrastructure. Can’t go to a well because the coal mines have fouled the aquifers. Electric rates, which were once historically low in KY are beginning to rise as well. It’s…

Even if I thought for a minute it was accidental, my highschool journalism teacher taught us to look out for these kinds of mistakes well over 20 years ago (and then we, being high school idiots tried to slip all sorts of subtle snark into photos and headers).

No, you’re confusing Virginia with West Virginia. She might be rich, but in Clay County (my hometown) that just means your house has a foundation. 

J. Mascis and company are almost criminally underrated. 

I don’t know. The abuse we’re talking about with Southern Baptists is from 1998 on. For Catholics, it seems like much of the abuse happened in the 60s-80s and came to light in the 90 and 00s. I can’t think of a case lately that was an active priest. They’re all dead or in retirement (which I agree is not the same as…

If anything, while Catholicism’s 1000+ year-old bureaucracy might have initially protected priests, in the long run it’s that penchant for record keeping that helped root it out. Getting abusers out of evangelical churches is going to be a lot harder and face a lot more resistance.

I think he might just be getting started. I bet everyone at the Enquirer is busy shredding as fast as they can. AMI is privately owned, so who knows what it would take to go full Peter Thiel on them, but they were valued at $1.5B in the early 2000s and their revenues have dropped 40% since then. Add on $425M in debt…

Truer words were never spoken.... Err... typed.

This is me kissing my dog. It’s my way of saying “I know where your mouth has been”

he BSA changed their policy on admitting gay youth and leaders a few years ago (late, but only a year behind GSUSA). The began admitting transgender youth a year later. There are religious awards for every major denomination, including non-Judeo/Christian faiths and agnosticism. You’re right that atheists are…

Well, not years. Girls have officially been in cub scouts for six months (or a little longer if your council was in the pilot programs). Of course, they have unofficially been in cub scouts for decades. While the abuses of the past were horrid, the youth protection program which was put in place in the early 90s is…

Think about how many jobs Photoshop, Illustrator, and digital printing have eliminated. When was the last time you used actual paste or a real lightboard?

Well, I mean if you die before you’re old enough to get cancer...

Other things from the 90s that didn’t stand the test of time: DuckTales. Sing a long to the theme, of course, but then hit “stop.” It is truly awful. 

This is great. Would you do the far eastern suburbs next? Where white flight went so far out in the country it intermarried with Appalachian rednecks?

Every single Catholic sermon in Kentucky/Cincinnati is about Trump and abortion. Every single one. For someone who grew up in the liberal northeast where once a year the visiting priest would give an hour-long invective about abortion and take up a special collection in an unusually sparsely attended mass, it is…

It really depends on where in the South you were and to an extent the Jesuit influence in the area. Louisville and Cincinnati are two examples of cities that more fit what the author is talking about.