If you want to be like King Beauregard — and let's face it, who doesn't? — use one of these for all your pocket needs:

"That's more from the Christian historical tradition, as opposed to pure biblical sanction."

They have the brains, yes, but do they have the interest in confronting it? It's easy to shrug one's shoulders and say "oh well what a shame HEY SAVE SOME GLUTEN-FREE CUPCAKES FOR ME!", but actually thinking about it and making the effort to empathize is another matter.

Am I sure? No. But I trust Fred Clark; he's a Christian who takes the Bible seriously. He's the kind who bumped into the proscriptions against usury and was genuinely troubled at how Christians can use banks at all. (The answer that he found satisfactory was, the proscription against usury was to keep people from…

And fuck no, I am not okay with this. I have no idea what to do about this except rant on Facebook and try to start uncomfortable conversations with my fellow white people, but no I do not wave this away.

The Baptist Churches of America are, in large measure, built around slavery / Jim Crow / oppression and accommodate them like a hand in a glove. Even Frederick Douglass spoke on their nature:

11) Challenge the white people around you to say that they're okay with this.

One point not to overlook: you're clearly getting white people to pay attention to you, and they are neither dismissing you nor responding with hostility. You are doing something that has impact, even if the response is confusing.

… unless your insurance company ends your plan, then of course you can't keep it.

I think you guys have a point. Season one there was a mystery to solve; season two the police desperately tried to keep order; this season the police are just sort of on the sidelines.

My worry is that they might turn him away at the door.

First thing Sy should have done was figure out where Emmit's family went, and then park a light-up sign on the lawn that says "THAT WAS RAY. EVIL TWIN, REMEMBER?" But that's not how Sy thinks.

Okay, I finally figured out why Barry's Marlon Brando get-up makes sense. In "normal" Archer he's dressed like the Six Million Dollar Man, an iconic look for a popular action character (who of course happened to be a cyborg). If you're fishing for a comparable look in the 40s, or maybe 50s, the pickings are pretty…

Upvoted for solidarity and support if you ever need it.

It's complicated. Some people are sort of fcked up by life too — terrible childhood, abusive spouse, impoverished single motherhood, that sort of thing. That had a lot to do with why my friend never became a travel agent or whatever. She arguably had mental health problems, but you know how it goes: if you can put…

It really wasn't; it was frustrating and ironic, but I know the score.

I can't wait for the day people start picking up on Old Towne Media, the media operation that was basically a money-laundering front to transfer Sanders campaign dollars to the pockets of his circle of friends.

Human beings hate. We're good at it. I am convinced it's in our ape DNA: those tribes that could stay really really mad at other tribes, had an overwhelming evolutionary advantage over the tribes who were more "hey man, cool club, why are you raising it over your OH MY SACRED HOLY ROCK!"

It's been a year and a few days since a friend of mine died — I "met" her online in 1997, supported her financially any number of times over the years, even helped her out of some legal woes. I am more or less the reason she lived comfortably in an apartment rather than on the street.

Okay, I'm sold on the need to address this disparity. What would you like me to do? I can think of a number of symbolic actions I could take that would help exactly nobody, but real actions? I'm up for suggestions.