No love for Reply All’s “The Case of the Missing Hit?” It was amazing. I guess Reply All is too well known for this feature.

Agree. Some of those products are downright dangerous. If there’s a podcast discussing how fucking terrible GOOP’s snake oil is, and how it’s basically the same shit sold by reactionary grifters like Alex Jones in prettier packaging, I would listen to that. (Which the 2nd season of The Dream kind of was.)

There’s... something... about thinly-veiled anti-Semites appropriating one of the most holy days in Judaism to grift suckers, but I’m too tired to put my finger on it.

What up, fellow wonk! I love Knowledge Fight and am pretty active in the Facebook group. Man, Jones was hammered at CPAC. Pretty sure “He went to bed” was code for “He’s passed out in a dumpster covered in his own vomit”.

There’s an episode of the podcast You’re Wrong About that covers Jessica Hahn and Jim Bakker; he apparently sent another minister into the room as he left, and that guy also raped Hahn. Then a third guy came in, but Hahn managed to talk him out of raping her. It was fucking crazy.

I’m old enough to remember his original rounds of scams, and if you had told me back then that this idiot would still be around and selling buckets of apocalypse slop to Boomers, I’d have told you that you were crazy.

Jones went all-in for Trump early in 2016. He’s stopped pretending to be a libertarian/contrarian and has just pivoted to straight-up fascist bootlicking. Everything that Trump can’t accomplish (like allow Jones back on Twitter and Facebook) is the fault of “the Deep State”. If Foxbots were allowed to bust into…

“I didn’t know I was committing fraud against a multi-billion dollar corporation, I just thought I was screwing a woman out of assets during a divorce!” Dude, fuck you, that’s actually worse.

I never even tried to watch this show because I saw too many episodes of Law and Order where Ellen Pompeo played some sort of dead-eyed Karla Homolka knock-off to accept her as a show’s protagonist. A better actor could have overcome that with pure talent, but... yeah, no.

Jamie is an absolute sweetheart who clearly cares about Lily.

I read a comment somewhere that said Eric Trump looked like a “shitty vampire” that would be in the background of a club scene in a Blade knock-off.

Alex Jones is also hawking nanosilver solution—also, like Bakker, buckets of apocalypse slop at a 10% mark-up; if you absolutely must buy that stuff, get it directly from the manufacturer and don’t give right wing grifters a cut. It’s a testament to the efficacy of deplatforming that everyone is clowning on Bakker and…

I was gonna say, didn’t it not actually “learn” from its owner but was just programmed to progress from baby talk to actual words? Not real AI, in other words. No wonder the craze only lasted about a year.

He must have felt like run-over dog shit the next morning. Getting drunk on super-sugary booze is a one-way ticket to Hangover City. I learned that the hard way in my early 20s with a bottle of Chambord.

They’re in Pittsburgh now. I have a friend who lives there and her Facebook feed has been nothing but shallow-focus macro shots of these things all month. They look indistinguishable from jelly doughnuts to me, but I live in Louisiana so Carnival season is all about king cake.

There are a lot of crazy things I would do if I had billions of dollars, and running for President is nowhere the top of the list*. It seems like a massive pain in the ass and no fun at all, but I’m not an old white man so I guess I just don’t have that “I need to bend reality to my will” gene.

Modi (correctly) thinks Trump is a moron ever since Trump wrapped up a whine-fest about China to Modi with “You wouldn’t understand, it’s not like you share a border with China”. (And the USA does... ?) The consensus among people who make a living studying Indian-American relations is that Modi doesn’t think there’s…

What the hell is up with his posture in the header image? He looks like a marionette puppet whose controller is taking a smoke break.

My mother’s grandmother died the week that Airplane! came out in theaters, so she had to fly back to Louisiana and leave us in the care of our soon-to-be stepfather, who dealt with what to do with her 3 kids and his 2 over the weekend by taking us to see that movie. I was 5, so that’s a solid dumbass dad move. A lot…

Northern Exposure was absolutely brilliant, but it seems weirdly under-remembered today. I think it’s because it took a long time to come out on DVD while they wrangled over music rights. And then it never got serialized on a major basic cable network—I think Hallmark Channel got it?