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thewhyteboar

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  1. I grow up in the Adventist church, in a tiny-ass town dominated by the church and university. The public elementary and middle schools were smaller than the local Adventist private school. When I was in middle school our town couldn't pass a levy funding the school, cause most of the voters were Adventists who sent their kids to private school. So we wound up with one gym teacher for three schools, all the art teachers fired, and music classes severely reduced. Adventists tithe too, so they figured with 10% going to the church, plus paying tuition for private school, why should they fund the public school as well? Thanks for that. My dad (who worked at the university) was also pissed at how high the pastor's salary was. The pastor also got a house and car. The pastor was really popular with the community, and ended up taking a corporate pr job. Guess he really felt the call huh? My sister did private Adventist school for one year, but my parents yanked her out of it after her first grade teacher told her that her non-Adventist friends were going to hell. America has some really fucked up churches.
  2. More seriously, how could anyone read that letter and think this man is fit for office. The GOP is a dangerous cult.
  3. https://www.thefarside.com/ Gary Larson finally launched a site to host The Far Side. I owned so many of those books as a kid.
  4. I want to see Blake and Looking Glass break Nite Owl out of prison. But if we never get a 2nd season, so be it.
  5. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/watchmen-finale-lindelof-interview-925847/amp/ Interview with Lindelof after the finale.
  6. https://gen.medium.com/the-decade-comic-book-nerds-became-our-cultural-overlords-f219b732a660 This is a really good essay on the whole Marvel-Scorsese thing. In particular this last line: To these poor souls I recommend carving out a few hours of the waning decade for a movie called The Irishman, in which a guy commits for life to an institution that doesn’t care about him at all, and realizes too late that he’s absolutely powerless.
  7. Andrew Sullivan has gone completely nuts since Trump's election.
  8. I saw something that said the news can't report anything til 10pm local time.
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