I’m actually genuinely shocked that it’s taken this long for these kinds of stories to arise.

Newsmax is almost as bad, and with the added *bonus* of actually HAVING Bill O’Reilly on air.

Media Studies students would put a gun on their mouths after 5 minutes of watching OANN.

The queen is doing her job. I’m no royalist, but she could do a better leading the country than johnson. This is a man who, just a month ago, was bragging that he was shaking hands with covid sufferers,while his father was also bragging that he’d go down the pub if he wanted. Now Boris is in hospital. Can you say:…

I always watch the Queen’s broadcasts, in case one day she says, “You’re all a bunch of morons. I’m retaking power and will rule henceforth absolutely. You simply can’t be trusted with something as sophisticated as democracy. It’s better this way. You’ll see.”

Yes, yes, but enough about Boris Johnson.

I’d be amazed if that green wasn’t chosen intentionally:

Thank you. My older brother is much closer to him that I was (my brother is his (grown with children of his own) son’s godfather). They were texting yesterday. This shit is no joke and it’s fast as fire.

I am very sorry for your loss, and for the encroaching sense that this all is getting much closer to home. I hope that you and your family can stay safe and sane until this passes, and that you can help your friends who have lost their loved ones.

I’m sorry for your loss. 

And he was put into a medically induced coma this morning.

I have been trying my hardest to avoid thinking about how competently Hillary would have handled this. She wouldn’t have been as comforting as Obama, but by God she would have gotten. shit. done. The problem is, people rarely recognize the natural consequences of their own beliefs and actions, even when it hits them…

Sometimes people who have been dealt a really bad hand in life seek comfort in church. Here’s an example of a group of people in American territory who have been dealt a pretty bad hand by, uh, America.

To be fair, virtual snake handling is hard. 

I’d say maybe a third of it’s based in their anti-science beliefs and a third in the love of money. The other third is their endless desire to think of themselves as a persecuted minority. In their version of the world, big lib’ral gummint is always coming for their guns, Bibles, pregnant teens, and freedoms. Just like…

This is what most of the big, organized Christian groups are doing (the ELCA, the Episcopal Church, American Baptist Churches USA, the National Baptist Convention, Presbyterian Church USA, etc.). Numerous state-level Episcopalian bishops flat-out ended in-person worship in the last couple weeks of March.

I live in Queens, NY. It’s the hardest hit County in the country. For the past weeks I’ve been hearing stories of a friend of a friend of a friend, or a Client’s brother-in-law, expecting it to get closer. Yesterday it did. A friend from childhood has been hospitalized since Wednesday. His wife has been hospitalized…

Trust and believe it’s all about the tithing.

Whatever. At this point I’m so turned-to-stone jaded and resentful that one of the few hopes I cling to is that COVID-19 rips through Evangelical communities like wet paper. It already looks as though red states are primed to take the full brunt of this pandemic at its peak, and...yeah...fuck ‘em. They voted, prayed,…

A member of my local assembly called me on the phone to check to see how I was doing. He let me know all in-person gatherings were cancelled, but made sure I knew how to access online services via Zoom ect. The main website has links to CDC guidelines. THIS is how you  treat people when you really care about them.