The Christmas story wasn’t invented by white people. Jesus wasn’t white. The earliest writers of the Gospels, where the stories come from, aren’t white, other than maybe not-John (the Gospel of John wasn’t written by the Apostle John (who wasn’t white) but somebody with a deep understanding of Greek philosophy, so…

The Church has been trying to roll back Vatican II ever since the reforms were first enacted and sadly there are younger Catholics who strongly think that Vatican II was a bad thing and they are essentially Catholic Ultras, so of course the heirarchy is going to pander to them.  There are fewer and fewer liberal…

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I’m sorry. While I think he’s a shit-stain on humanity, sadly many of my white breathern couldn’t find it in their hearts to tell Trump to fuck off to reality TV. I have no defense for what we have done other than to say that there should possibly not be another white president for another 100 years. (Also, my daugher…

It’s hard for me to be buoyed by the Evangelical Christian’s mouthpiece’s condemnation of Trump when too many conservative Christians will gladly ignore the morally problematic actions by him when all that they’re in it for is the banning of abortions, much like the conservative Christians support (and continual…

As a Catholic, the length of the sermon isn’t important.  That Mass had better damn well be done within an hour.  The priest receives bonus points if he can bring it in under 55 minutes, especially once spring arrives.  But if it’s a long sermon, he’d better be using Eucharistic Prayer Number 2 (between my preschool,…

I mean, for the record, I don’t really expect black people to have a grasp on English prog rock or the jam band scene.

I love Orlando Jones, but I just have never been able to get into any version of American Gods (that would be novel, TV series, and graphic novel). I found them all to be exceptionally boring and uninteresting. It’s a shame he’s no longer a part of the cast, but unfortunately I think a lot of Gaiman’s notariety comes…

So, is Lyft going to be regulated like a rental car company?  Because, in all honesty, it should already be regulated like a taxi company.

As for Robert Jeffries, he’s a big supporter of Israel

Which might be. I have to listen to the same warnings every single time in court from the same judge who actually bungles things, but if you act like you have a superiority complex when you do it, it’s not the disclaimer, it’s you.

I’m not a good flyer. Between issues I have with incompetent authority (this means people in charge who overcompensate for deficincies elsewhere, and my whole view of TSA is it’s utterly incompetent) and flying itself, I’m very tightly wound at the airport. I was often selected for “random” screenings, although I…

He’s also been ordered to cough up $9,000 in restitution, help cover prosecution costs, and pay $22,000 for a court-appointed attorney.

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This isn’t surprising for those familiar with the ACEs studies that have been done.  What surprised me was how Latinx babies aren’t as affected.

I hope, when this long nightmare is over, the next President (a real one, not the anal puppet that would be Mike Pence) slams corporations and overregulates them. Because it’s not like any of these industries are hurting from the very limited regulations that the government now insists on (compared to the 60's and…

I’ll admit to being an old man, and it’s not the sort of music I listen to, but I honestly have never heard it outside of events involving my kids or at the local minor league baseball team (possibly Kidz Bop as well, but God help me with those fucking albums). It was not nearly ubiquitous as the Macarena or the…

Let me know when she has a replica of Rotterdam’s Kabouter Buttplug and THEN I’ll be impressed.

No. I’m all for artificial trees (I’m allergic to pine, and yet my wife insists on a real tree every year and of course I have to go and get it and put it up. And when I say I’m allergic to pine, what I mean is that if they needles rub against my skin, I immediately break and itch like crazy the part of my skin which…

He’s allowed to play the old man card, because I’ve never seen it at weddings, basically just at kids’ events. They would do it at my kids’ school and at the father/daughter dance for girl scouts I’d have to take them to. Sometimes our local minor league team would play portions while waiting for something to happen…