Regarding this:

Years ago, an acquaintance of mine, a really sweet young woman who ‘came from money’ was duped by the $cientologists into given them a whole lot (almost all) of her money (low-to-mid six digits). I’ve been fascinated by Co$ ever since, so when Leah Remini & Mike Rinder did Aftermath it was must see TV for me. I…

Which has me wondering: if she was the highest paid staffer and couldn’t recite her own job description, why was she he highest paid staffer?  What did she not spill publicly that had her so highly paid?

Didn’t the idiot Lt. Governor of Texas say as much?

Is it overly meta that I recorded Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project on my Digital Video Recorder? Or would that only apply had I done so on a BetaMax tape?

You mean Perlman, right.

Whenever he goes on one of his word salad journeys, he reminds me of this recurring sketch from the British show The Fast Show (renamed Brilliant when it was aired Stateside), where this drunken old guys recounts past events:

Apart from the questionable way in which Jesus is portrayed here (appearance-wise), I think this is a good illustration of your point:

And doing wo while the Trump campaign sells LGBTQ+ ‘targeted’ merch on its website.

Yeah, he can go razz off. Him and that other guy who ‘fell a little bit in love’ with him. {{{{{BARF}}}}}  

Thank you, it was an interesting experience getting those four guys together!

Yes.

I’d like to become an “avid creators of [my] own history”.

Awwww lookit, Fox has their very own Joe & Mika!

Somewhere on one of the twitter threads about this story I saw a comment along the lines of “where’s Camp Audie Murphy?”

Speaking of renaming military installations:

Seriously. I’d also like to give props to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. Their corporate message is great; then add the fact that Ben & Jerry both (I think) got arrested in DC protesting: Haägen Daz who?

I kinda feel like it makes sense that there would be a ‘formula’ for perfect beauty at this time. Wasn’t this around the same time as eugenics were a thing?

This is an interesting read: