Good call! Have you read “Zealot” by Reza Aslan? It’s pop Bible history, but it’s really good, though you may have already gleaned most of it’s points elsewhere. Tangentially, I've always thought that Paul found this insane acolyte in St. Augustine who did even more to codify the Pauline influences in the New…

You said it, and Paul is so much more a part of modern Christianity than Jesus ever was. The bulk of the New testament is basically just a bitchy guy working through his own issues and projecting that shit throughout the Mediterranean. Very weird way to start a religion. Then again, Abraham got the ball of strange roll…

You can take the man outta Florida but you just can't take the Florida outta the man.

Yeah, that’s made-up bullshit by Pauls followers (Paul was very much at odds with Jewish leaders as well as the faction of Jesus’s disciples who kept a Jewish identity) hyped up to appeal to Romans around the time Constantine converted. Second temple Jewish leaders were no fans of of the Nazarene, but Pilate was a…

Having the knife is no good, but this seems like 85% active imagination. It took 15 Saudi operatives, a body double, and a bone saw to cut up just one guy...and they didn’t have to worry about drinking the blood on top of that.

Having a shitty interview with Jane Fonda should be disqualifying for a journalist/host.

Yeah, you should read the letter...it's not like emotional disregulation mental health stuff, it's incoherent like a manic/schizo episode (I know from experience.) Honestly, Patrick should have addressed it in the post, or not posted at all. Totally awful whatever happen. 

No, seriously, Brooks and Majerle are using blunt language, but if you read the letter she wrote, it’s incoherent like mania or dissasociative babble. Scribd has already pulled it, but there are exerpts here in the comments. Not saying she’s lying about the abuse, but the letter doesn’t make much sense at all. I was…

By phrasing it about the stripper thing, BrooksRobinsonsGlove made it seem like that’s what was undermining her story (never should be like that) but, if you read the letter it makes very little sense, like someone w/ bipolar mania or schizophrenia wrote it. (Im bipolar and recall thoughts like this during a manic…

I feel you, yo. I always liked "Polly". When my son was 3, he asked for it on the car playlist, so that had to go out of the rotation.

Remember the one where Tracy and Jenna cross-dressed and white/blackfaced to see who had it harder? Same one where Liz took ambien on her flight and thought a teenager was Oprah. Good stuff.

I’m generally a “they paid their debt to society” type person, but if he's walking out of prison already bitching and playing games about his son, I'd like to see him go back in that trunk.

This SEEMS crafted to dissuade him from harping on that stuff the next time he talks to Abe, what with them noting that Japan is the “No. 1" investor in the US. It might be helpful to include a map of Hawaii and “76 years without a Japanese attack”.

Do you mean as opposed to white men? that shit happens too, there are a lot of videos of it. I think men are more likely to try the handle the “situation” physically. Why its not another person of color making the call, obvs they dont see the cops as their personal enforcement arm.

I don’t know why I’m telling this story now and in this forum, but since you called him greasy, it jogged my memory of the quintessential greasy Schumer story (related to me by someone who would know and probably wouldn’t lie) Schumer was once attending some fundraiser, get-together in Brooklyn in December (late…

My spiteful bitter agnostic theory is that a lot born agains are so insufferable because deep down they realize they have to stay on that mental treadmill forever to justify the fact that their new life is based on a decision to turn their brain off. Yeah life might be better, but the intellectual dishonesty it takes…

“in lieu of unveiling his penis”

It honestly was until I met a woman willing to take a shower with me that I realized you turn the water on and adjust it and THEN get in the shower. It honestly had not occured to me until that point. I spent every morning in high school shivering like an idiot for 10 seconds. Also, standing naked in freezing water…

While in this case it was a white woman making the allegation, I’d say the pervasiveness of false allegations against black men come from white PEOPLE, and false accusations of a sexual nature are driven more by white MEN, even when a woman’s account is involved. Now the calling the cops shit seems to occur with women…

I genuinely did a spit take.