...participating in something like Scientology is still an act of ludicrous faith.

Not at all. If this is prime training ground for actors, you just PRETEND to believe their hogwash. If I were rich and famous I might join just to mess with THEIR heads.

That’s not how it works. If it was they’d have no followers.

For me that would be ten minutes, then, oops outa here.

Plus who’s going to speak up for a mime when they don’t speak up for anyone else?

To be fair, if you work in the intelligence community, you’re justified to feel paranoid.

Yeah well you just *say* that... to keep the operatives off balance, and thus... off of your scent... Very clever.. But you FAILED. You are a plant. You are a mole, sir.

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Actually first they came for the mimes but everyone was pretty okay with that.

They came first for the clowns, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a clown...

There is indeed. https://twofactorauth.org/

The claim did not take root in the american consciousness until it was circulated in 2008 Clinton primary campaign chain e-mails. Her supporters WERE her campaign, worked in her campaign, and did the brute force campaigning for the campaign. I never accused Hillary Clinton of starting it, nor do I think she believed…

Snopes has it coming from her supporters, not her campaign: http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-started-birther-movement/

Yep. The Clintons aren’t exactly shrinking violets when it comes to these things.

To be fair, they were largely during the early Byzantium era. They were mostly Greek, and the culture was largely Greek. Anatolia now is different then Anatolia then, thanks to it being at the crossroads of invasions of Greeks, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Russians, etc.

Running is like half an hour of free novel ideas. Promise.

I’m less interested in running, but I’d like to start consistently walking longer distances. I’m hoping to do a Great Saunter (circle Manhattan, 32 miles) this May. 5Ks are easy for me, and I can fit one after work most days but I usually don’t out of laziness. I’d like to walk a 10k around Thanksgiving, and a half…

I get this in every pair of shoes I own, right over the big toe, because of the shape of my toenail I guess.