“It’s been fascinating to see how Netflix in particular is falling into the Accidental 30 Rock trap. The mammoth streaming service was supposed to change the game, to be the subversive force that didn’t play by traditional TV’s rules. It took them only a few years to do the exact same nonsense that network broadcasting does. Their reality slate, from Is it Cake? to The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, reeks of the kind of decision making made by harried executives on a tight budget desperate to fill out the schedule.”
“According to the spam blocking company YouMail, robocalls have spiked in the last few months since hitting a low in December.”
“The key insight there is that the “demons” of Pentecostal Spiritual Warfare always, always, always represent attacks on the pre-existing cultural beliefs and presuppositions of these Christians. Spiritual Warfare, in other words, is reactionary. It spiritualizes a defense of the status quo by portraying any form of change — negative or positive — as the strategic handiwork of a conspiracy of literal demons.”
“The federal Department of Education has begun investigating Liberty University’s handling of student reports of sexual assault.”
“You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results”.
Emergency backup goalie alert!
RIP, Bob Krueger, Texas Senator, Congressman, Railroad Commissioner, ambassador, diplomat, professor, and many other things.
RIP, Neal Adams, legendary comic book artist who revitalized “Batman”, among many other things. Look for Mark Evanier to have more to say.
“Susan Collins told the women of America that they could trust her to protect their reproductive freedom. She let us down.”
RIP, Kailia Posey, Toddlers and Tiaras alum probably best known for a reaction GIF you have almost certainly seen.
RIP, Ron Galella, notorious paparazzo.
“With their engrossing and terrifying two-part investigation of Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch, Vanity Fair has revealed a tale that involves alleged trauma-theft, one of the worst hate crimes in American history, multiple potentially fake illnesses, Anna Paquin, and yes, a kidney.”
“A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing where groups of people visiting the locations came from, how long they stayed there, and where they then went afterwards, according to sets of the data purchased by Motherboard.” Seems bad, you know?
“The US Supreme Court’s legitimacy has been deeply pierced, and it may never recover its stature in the eyes of America.”
On the plus side, condors are back. So we’ve got that going for us.
“Please Allow Me, a Woman Who Just Had a Baby, to Fact-Check Justice Samuel J. Alito”.
“As Ukraine Reels, Putin’s Alliance with Russia’s Orthodox Church Leadership Remains Strong”.
“Accumulating this much power is not easy and it is very expensive. But anti-abortion forces had a critical ally: corporate America. A Popular Information analysis of corporate political giving found 13 major companies have given $15.2 million to the NRSC, RSLC, and RGA since 2016.”
“May the Fourth, Rex Manning Day, and 10 More Made-Up Movie and TV Holidays“.
Congratulations to Dusty Baker for his 2,000th win as a MLB manager.
“A Louisiana legislative committee on Wednesday advanced a bill to make abortion a crime of homicide in which the mother or those assisting her in terminating the pregnancy can be charged.” I guarantee you, this will be on the Republican legislative agenda in 2023.
“It was school segregation, not abortion, that brought Christians together in prayer and a quest for political power.” Slacktivist has been on this for a long time.
“A group of Florida residents has sued the state’s governor and other officials over the repeal of a special tax district that has allowed Walt Disney World to self-govern its operations since it was created 55 years ago.”
RIP, George Pérez, comic book artist best known for his work on Wonder Woman and The New Teen Titans. Mark Evanier has more.
RIP, Mickey Gilley, country music star and owner of the iconic Gilley’s honky-tonk in Pasadena, the inspiration for Urban Cowboy.
Abortion Rally in Family-Friendly Downtown Houston Venue
Add RIP Beto Gubernatorial Run.
I mean seriously … instead of honoring your mother on Mother’s Day with jubilation and nice words, flowers, and an ode of appreciation for the challenges of parenthood assumed and completed, a protest and clamor for more fetidice at the Discovery Green, — a family-friendly park in the heart of the city with a Kinder lake for paddle boats for kids and skating in the mild winter months.
https://www.discoverygreen.com/kinder-lake
If nothing else, to hold an abortion rally on Mothers’ Day eve, and in a venue like that, is in extremely poor taste indeed.
Disgusting, really!
Democrats are deservedly doomed in Texas at the all-state level.
Utter lack of a sense of propriety. Out of touch with community sentiments.