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Apparently I need to relearn my stealth snarking techniques.

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I think an appropriate description of Mr. Robertson would be the pronunciation of the license plate of a New Yorker who literally ran us off the road, into the emergency lane, on a freeway in NYC in early Sept of 1989 (and who was probably being Raptured, and so didn't notice): god swill.

mark "no, thanks, I won't drink that swill"

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Some times you just have to wait for your moment!

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It's the new Plenary Indulgence: you don't have to hang around purgatory & he gets a new St Pete's, it's a win-win for everyone!

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I looked for Northern Exposure on Netflix, but they didn't have it. I haz a sadz.

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And Trump can shoot to kill people on the sidewalks of 5th Ave with impunity.

But gawd dammit Trump will give them socialized medicine!

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Of course! He is not a witch doctor, ffs!

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Forgive me for asking a personal question. What is your preferred style of reading?

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India has a lot of religious conmen & women. South America as well. I remember my mother's friend made frequent trips to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990's. She'd show me tourist trinkets, including 3-D postcards, which she seriously believed had mystical powers (after all - they'd been blessed!) and would heal you if you prayed holding the trinket, post-card, amulet.....It wasn't only the RC church scamming people though. The entire area had a cottage industry of "healers"," psychics" and others with similar claims.

In the late 90's my friend and I went to a Benny Hinn revival. The woo was unbelievable. At first we thought it was hilarious but after a few hours observing so many desperate people, who seriously needed help, we both became really sad and had to leave.

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I wonder if she'll publicly support Trump? It would mean so much to Donnie.

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I'm so surprised the southern states would vote for a white wealthy obnoxious nativist racist sexist republican?!

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Rex Humbard decided to build a huge, new church/television studio with a revolving restaurant on top. They started construction without doing the necessary due diligence and got shut down when it was discovered the height of the building would interfere with flight paths at nearby Akron-Canton Airport. They just stopped building and walked away, leaving this half-constructed tower with rebar sticking out of the top. The neighbors around it called it the Tower of Babel.

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The press? You trust those guys? Haven't you been listening to the oompa loompa?! They're the most dishonest bunch of sumobitches!

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And at least he occasionally gave his followers the high hard one unlike Yahweh, who did the namby pamby send his essence down with a flunky so no one gets off.

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Like all popular religious organizations, Netflix doesn't have anything to offer.

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It only worked with Joel as the fish out of water standing in for the viewing audience. After he was acclimated to the local eccentricities, it went straight downhill.

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