"See for yourself" and a link to.. Mother Jones? That centrist pillar of disinterested journalism. I actually like Mother Jones. It has good essays. But it's a propaganda rag. Like, openly.

Yeah. I know. I just found myself in a fit of anti-Miller pique.

In Miller's mind, it's apparently still the 30 years war. Also I think you might be slightly overestimating the level of power wielded by protestant religious figures.

Yeah. Even I was surprised.

Who enthusiastically took up cannibalism because a serial killer who walked into his confessional said it made him feel good? That is not a guy who's ever been looking to change for the better.

Mass shootings actually now occur less frequently than in the 90s. Believe it or not, most of them never made it into the national news. Now we hear about every single one as soon as it happens. Actually all violent crime is down to the lowest it's been since the 1960s.

Holy shit, I think you've blown this whole thing wide open.

I don't know, it's not quite that dumb. Isn't it supposed to be an act of solidarity or something? With the Middle Eastern directors who weren't allowed in the country, then ensured of special dispensation, then refused to apply for it… Do I have that right?

If the whiplash kid, instead of practicing the drums, got confused and tried to do it by becoming a Bishop. Which would make exactly as much sense, plan wise.

Thanks. That clears up a number of mysteries. You know, I actually met some train hobos out in Oregon. Well, I met some meth heads in a poorly secured freight-car the one time I hopped a train. I'm pretty sure they're what hobos mutated into.

Well, our hierarchy would certainly be a lot easier to threaten, not having personal military forces and terrifying crime syndicates. But even more pointless. All our Bishops do is confirm people and keep the Apostolic Succession going. I don't even know what mine's name is.

My issue is that Bishop seems to have been his actual, nefarious goal. I just can't really imagine that guy making it through seminary, much less spending ten years helping old ladies set up for coffee hour.

Yup. Definitely would have worked better than Robespierre. Who was a typo.

Holy shit. That's what I get for combining the internet with insomnia. Thank you.

It's really not a matter of liking them or not. I'm actually quite fond of modern Vietnam. I'm glad it's not divided into warring factions. But I also know people who were willing face a lingering death from dehydration on a raft to escape it's formation. Who lost family to what were, in objective terms, death camps.…

Hahahahaha! Holy shit. Oh my God, I'm the happy for the first time since Trump was elected! Thank you thank you thank you!!! I"m gonna go email PETA long lists of 40k trivia! Not even just the disturbing stuff. Pointless things! Cadian birth rates! Imperial ship measurements! All the different kinds of space elves!…

Nope, I wasn't. But we were too. And if the article had been implicitly shrugging off American atrocities I would have brought them up, instead. Sometimes everybody's a brutal, tyrannical regime and no matter what, millions of innocents die. The World's a Greek tragedy, war's hell but we're doomed to it, and we're all…

It didn't turn out as badly as North Korea, I'll give them that. A low bar, admittedly. Well, it did if you were one of the hill tribes, or a Christian, or anybody that worked for us, or one the other couple million people they murdered. Dead is dead. But those who survived the reeducation camps certainly have a…

Aw, come on. We all hate mimes.
Well, at least theoretically. I can't actually remember ever seeing one in the United States. Come to think of it, I can't remember seeing one in France, which I understand to be their nation of origin. Considering how much they get shit on, you'd think they'd be common enough that I'd…

I forgot about the bishop from Monty Python!