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This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed
group photo everyone
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hey i look really good in this one
When Star Wars themed lands open at Walt Disney World and Disneyland in 2019, things are going to be interactive. Maybe, a little too interactive.
CrooooowVoter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is a serious problem.
Last Wednesday, in Douglas, Georgia, a jury deadlocked on a case of felony voter fraud against City Commissioner Olivia Pearson. The trial was the latest round in a years-long campaign against a woman who threatened the Republican stranglehold on power in Douglas. Only one person on the jury voted to clear her of her charges.
Douglas is a small, poor town in the southern part of Georgia. Its population of 43,000 is about two-thirds white, one-third black. In 1999, Olivia Pearson was the first black woman elected to the Douglas City Commission. The longtime advocate for civil rights has run unopposed for the seat ever since. In 2012, Pearson spearheaded a successful effort to elect Doyle Wooten as Douglas’s first black, Democratic Sheriff. She enlisted the help of her friend James Hicks to get out the vote. As recounted in Buzzfeed:
“A lot of blacks were frustrated” by how police treated black youth, said Hicks, who faces four counts of both improper voting assistance and false swearing. Hicks said he didn’t break any voting laws but merely impressed upon his neighbors — especially the ones hanging out on the corners, the high school dropouts, the friends of his youngest sons — that they could make a change by going to the polls.
“I get the people that don’t nobody else think about,” Hicks said. “The little young gangbangers — those are the people you need to reach.”
On October 15, 2012, the first day of early voting, Pearson assisted several new voters who had difficulty operating the computerized voting machines. No one has ever alleged that she touched the machines or told anyone whom to vote for. But Georgia’s law bars assisting any voter unless that voter is illiterate or disabled.
Pearson’s defense was that after helping [Diewanna] Robinson, she’d done what poll workers had asked her to do: sign a form that would allow her to help people who were having difficulty using the voting machines. Pearson said she didn’t know turning in those forms meant she was vouching for whether someone was illiterate or disabled.
“It was my understanding that it was the poll workers’ responsibility,” Pearson said. “I was abiding by the instructions of the poll workers.”
After the election, Pearson, Hicks, Sheriff Wooten’s wife and one of Sheriff Wooten’s cousins were investigated and eventually charged with vote fraud.
On December 5, Pearson and a friend saw three police officers with their guns trained on a parked car with three black passengers. She observed for 20 minutes while the police determined that the occupants of the car were not suspects in a recent murder. When instructed by the police to step back, she complied. However, the officer’s report stated
[B]y Pearson intervening with this traffic stop, she hindered and endangered ALL the officers, occupants of the stopped vehicle and her party. Her actions this night could be construed as obstructing or hindering of a law enforcement officer (OCGA 16-10-24).
Local prosecutor Ian Sansot, who was already investigating Pearson for voter fraud, saw this story reported in the local paper Douglas Now. He then contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Therefore, I am requesting the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to investigate this matter to determine whether or not a violation of the Georgia criminal code has occurred (specifically with regard to obstruction and violation of oath of office). Additionally, the article claims that Commissioner Pearson has a history of being involved in traffic stops. Therefore, as well as the incident highlighted in the article, I am requesting the GBI to investigate an other incidences as well, if any such exist.
Watching police on the street is not illegal, even in Georgia. But when the Bureau declined to prosecute, Sansot responded, “I’m confused. Your department will not be initiating an investigation then?”
Georgia authorities waited almost four years to bring charges against Pearson. Only in the run up to the 2016 elections did she face prosecution for alleged vote fraud. In March of that year, Pearson, Hicks and two others appeared before the Georgia Board of Elections, as reported in Buzzfeed.
But the secretary of state had investigated dozens of instances in which Pearson had driven people to the polls or otherwise urged them to vote — instances in which the county elections board chairman alleged her aid crossed the line into illegal voter assistance.
Before the State Elections Board in March, Pearson responded to some of those allegations, including that she had improperly helped her 64-year-old aunt, Evelyn Ross, to vote. Pearson testified her assistance at the polls was never coercive or illegal.
“At no time have I ever touched the screen or told them who to vote for,” Pearson told the panel.
“I could only relay to them what the screen says or whatever and give them an option as to how they would want to proceed,” she said.
Coffee County Elections Supervisor Misty Hayes was a witness at the hearing and Olivia Pearson’s subsequent trial.
Supervisor Hayes testified that during the 2012 election she approached Commissioner Pearson and explained to her the conditions which would allow her to assist voters. Seventeen voter assistance forms were tendered into evidence by the prosecution, all bearing Commissioner Pearson’s signature, although Commissioner
Pearson did dispute the validity of two of the signatures.
It is unclear why Ms. Hayes continued to supply Ms. Pearson with voter assistance forms if she suspected that they were being used to commit voter fraud.
“What do I get out of suppressing a voter?” said Misty Hayes, the elections supervisor for Coffee County. “It’s a joke.” She declined to discuss any specific case but said that cracking down on voter fraud “is just common sense. It’s the law.”
It is unclear why Ms. Hayes failed to challenge suspected fraudulent votes at the time they were cast, as would be expected of the Elections Supervisor.
Olivia Pearson, Charlie Hicks, Evelyn Griffin and Charlie Mack Wooten III were indicted on multiple counts of improperly assisting a ballot and false swearing. They were arrested and booked into the county jail before being released on bond.
With Pearson and Hicks under indictment, black voter registration efforts in Coffee County collapsed. Republican vote tallies ticked up only slightly between 2012 and 2016, but the number of Democratic voters declined by 20%.
Meanwhile, voter-registration efforts in the black neighborhoods that once rallied support for Wooten have nearly disappeared without the leadership of Pearson and Hicks. “That’s because those with a backbone were made an example of,” said Roper, the local civil rights leader.
Stand with me in opposition to the left’s blatant attempts to disrupt Georgia’s elections! pic.twitter.com/hDnjCrkBh5
— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) October 19, 2016
In the run-up to the election, Georgia cut the days and number of precincts for early voting, purged voters from the rolls, slow-walked new voter registrations, and moved one majority-black voter precinct into the local sheriff’s office. Attempts to prevent “voter fraud” also kicked in to high gear.
[Secretary of State Brian] Kemp has support in Coffee County, where the local GOP is training volunteers to work at the polls on Election Day because “we are going to be proactive instead reactive,” said Cathy Latham, a top official with the county GOP.
“I think the fact that voter fraud happened in such a tight-knit community opened our eyes a bit. Our party, as a whole, made sure to step up our game,” she said.
In fact, the number of fraudulent votes is vanishingly small. Conversely, up to 11% of eligible voters in Georgia may lack the required photo ID needed to vote. Prosecuting civil rights leaders for vote fraud serves the double purpose of discouraging voter registration drive and ginning up public panic about “stolen votes.”
“The threat of bringing those cases and starting an investigation is that it’s really a coercive threat against voter registration drives,” said Emmet Bondurant, an Atlanta-based attorney who filed a lawsuit in February against Kemp for allegedly dropping voters from the state’s rolls ahead of the November election.
“And the people who really organize most of the voter registration drives are the NAACP, civil rights groups, because the African-American population is under-registered and under-represented. So they become targets.”
On March 28, Prosecutor Ian Sansot tried Olivia Pearson on one count of improper assistance of a voter in casting a ballot and one count of false swearing. Each count was a felony with a possible jail term of up to ten years.
In her closing remarks, Pearson’s lawyer Nefertara Clark referred to the Salem Witch Trials, saying, “Welcome to 1692.”
Prosecutor Sansot countered
There are no witch hunts. But there are corrupt politicians who abuse their power. You can vote today to get people to stop messing with elections.
The next day, the judge declared a mistrial when one juror refused to convict.
On the lawn outside of the courthouse, one of the jurors claimed she was the lone obstacle to a conviction. Lenecia Armour, a 29-year-old black woman, said once deliberations started it was clear she was the only one who didn’t believe Pearson was guilty. But she held out. “It was torture,” Armour said. “But this is South Georgia: I knew I’d be dealing with these kind of people.”
Sansot vowed to retry the case. But if his goal was to suppress black votes in Douglas, he may have already won.
Indeed, Hicks has seen the toll his legal troubles have taken on his own recent scaled-down GOTV efforts. One recent afternoon, Hicks said he pulled up his black Cadillac sedan beside a group of his son’s friends. He leaned out of the car and asked them if they’d registered to vote.
“One of them said, ‘Mr. Curtis, I ain’t messing with voting,’” he said. “They’ll fuck with me like they got you fucked up.’
[Buzzfeed / Buzzfeed, again / Douglas Now]
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CrooooowThe Democrats don't know what they are doing
There’s a guy running in a special Congressional election in Montana, Rob Quist. He’s a musician, a grassroots guy, works for food banks and arts funding in schools, swell fella, looks hella good for 69. (Nice.) You can and should donate to him here.
Montana’s a real red state. And yet, even so, it’s got a Democratic governor and a Democratic senator. Trump blew Hillary Clinton out of the water here, 55-35.
But there was another race in November: Montana’s gubernatorial race. Democrat Steve Bullock beat this billionaire carpetbagger nobody likes, Greg Gianforte, 50-46.
If you just did that math, Gianforte — a billionaire carpetbagger nobody likes — underperformed Donald Trump by 9 points. The Democrat running against him outperformed Hillary Clinton by 15 points (AND WON). So we’re all clear, right? Good.
For some unknown reason, Republicans nominated Gianforte again, this time for the state’s sole Congressional seat. He is running against Rob Quist, who has the advantage of not being a billionaire carpetbagger nobody likes.
Now consider: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), whose reason for being is helping with the campaigns of Democrats running for Congress, is declining to support the Democrat running for Congress in Montana right now.
What the everliving actual fuck?
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) – the main national party group dedicated to helping Democratic U.S. House candidates – doesn’t mention the race on its website and didn’t return several messages left by MTN News.
It has also has made no independent expenditures on the race.
Gotta keep that powder dry for all those races 18 months from now. Wouldn’t wanna waste any money winning Congressional seats from red-state D’s. What good would that be??
In contrast to this relative silence, the Congressional Leadership Committee, a Republican Super PAC that supports Republican U.S. House candidates, bought $700,000 worth of TV ads in Montana early March, bashing Quist.
The National Republican Campaign Committee also features the Gianforte-Quist matchup prominently on its website, posting stories critical of Quist.
Surely the Republicans’ financial support for the billionaire carpetbagger nobody likes isn’t necessary because nobody likes him and he’s already been beat statewide once before. No, couldn’t be anything like that. They’re just putting in $700 large for funsies, not because it would look mighty bad for Trump to lose a House seat in Montana.
David Parker, a professor at Montana State University, said the groups look at two factors before spending their money: How President Trump did in the district, and whether the candidate has shown that he or she is a contender.
“Trump did so well here (in the November election), I would find it really difficult to find a path forward for Quist, and the national Democrats are savvy enough to know that,” he said.
You know who I don’t know? David Parker. You know who sounds like he is pretty bad at “political science”? David Parker. You know who never seems to have heard of Greg Gianforte and how nobody likes him and he underperformed Trump by 9 points like we already told you and that’s not even taking into account the demoralization of the GOP right now, the #RESISTANCE of Democrats, and Trump being under 50 percent approval with white dudes and rurals? David Parker. You know whose job I should probably take because he has no business professing to young impressionable minds about political science? David Parker.
But this isn’t about David Parker. (It kind of is. We hate that guy already.) This is about the DCCC.
The DCCC has $6.6 million cash on hand, and three races it could spend it on. Seems it’s bothering with all of one: Jon Ossoff’s in Georgia. And it should bother with it! Jon Ossoff, gentleman nerd, has the Republicans in night sweats! They’re suddenly running ads against him, a 30-year-old Democrat, that seem to insinuate he TAKES MONEY FROM BIN LADEN’S REANIMATED CORPSE:
OH BOY, THEY ARE SCARED! LET’S GIVE JON OSSOFF MONEY!But it wouldn’t break the DCCC to give money — ANY MONEY — to Rob Quist, or James Thompson in Kansas (running to fill new CIA chief Mike Pompeo’s House seat in KS 04). Thompson’s election is April 11, and his state Dems wouldn’t even give him $20,000 for mailers. Maybe we should give him a last-minute kick. (South Carolina and California special elections are still upcoming.)
Instead, the DCCC is telling red state Dems we can fuck right off, we’re not even worth a pitiful token. The DCCC calls me for money twice a week. They won’t be getting any more of it.
[KTVH / Rob Quist ActBlue page / James Thompson donate page / Jon Ossoff’s ActBlue]
Know who else could use your money, while you got your wallet out? That’s right! Spaceships! Wait, no, us!
FUCK YOU JEFF SESSIONS, for trying to undo the only good thing that came out of Freddie Gray’s pointless death. We see you trying to weasel out of the Consent Decree the Justice Department brokered between Baltimore and its police department (BPD). And timing it to coincide with the anniversary of Freddie Gray’s arrest on April 12, 2015, is a nice touch. Your “bad apples” theory of police misconduct may play on Fox News, but the Department of Justice crunched actual data and found systemic violations of our citizens’ constitutional rights. And since you are the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in the land, we’d like you to do your job and not throw away years of work because cooperating with Democratic cities doesn’t fit with the Trump administration’s political agenda. Or because you are a notorious racist. ALLEGEDLY.
FUCK YOU JEFF SESSIONS, for forgetting how Freddie Gray died. Remember how officers stepped on his spine before they cuffed him and threw him into the van without a seatbelt, then gave him a “rough ride” to beat the shit out of him before he got to the station? Remember how he slipped into a coma and died a week later? Remember how no cops got convicted because it wasn’t consistent BPD policy to bother with seatbelts in the paddy wagon? If Gray had survived, he’d have been just one of the many of lawsuits filed against BPD every year. The city paid out $5.7 million in settlements for police brutality in the four years leading up to Gray’s death. Your Motion argues that we should not “undermine” police because of a few bad cops.
The misdeeds of individual bad actors should not impugn or undermine the legitimate and honorable work that law enforcement officers and agencies perform in keeping American communities safe.
It’s not anti-cop to point out that Freddie Gray’s community was not safe, not from cops, and not from criminals. The city wasn’t paying out millions to settle lawsuits because of a few “bad actors.”
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS, for thinking that no one cares if black kids get hassled by cops. WE CARE. This is our city, and those are our kids. All of them.
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSONS, for being devoted to the Second Amendment and not giving a damn about the Fourth. As a senator, you had an A+ rating from the NRA. You’re very concerned that we all have the “right to bear arms,” including automatic weapons. It’s the “freedom from unreasonable search and seizure” that doesn’t bother you much. Did you know that Freddie Gray was tackled to the ground because he ran from the cops? They found a knife in his waistband and arrested him for it.
So, you’re good with this.
But not this
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS, for treating this Consent Decree like it’s an insult to law enforcement, when our Police Commissioner Kevin Davis supports it. The 227-page document outlines policies and procedures to protect our citizens’ Constitutionally guaranteed rights. You’re asking the Court to pause so you personally can get a handle on The Decree. Well, here are some highlights.
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS, because Freddie Gray would still be walking around if this Consent Decree had been BPD policy two years ago. Literally everything about this man’s interaction with police violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The police pursued him without reasonable suspicion of any criminal activity, searched him without consent, physically restrained him in a deliberately injurious manner, and arrested him without cause. As his lawyer Billy Murphy put it, “Running while black is not probable cause. Felony running doesn’t exist, and you can’t arrest someone for looking you in the eye.”
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS, for forgetting that police mismanagement directly contributed to the riot/uprising on April 25, 2015. Acting on a social media rumor of impending violence, police shut down all public transportation near Frederick Douglass High School, going so far as to force riders off buses in the area. Five thousand students a day catch the bus at the Mondawmin Mall transportation hub across from Douglass High. When Douglass let out that afternoon, a thousand kids came face to face with cops in riot gear. Without public transportation, the kids were trapped. Half an hour later, the riot started. Maybe it would have happened anyway, or maybe not. But the city was a powder keg that day, and the BPD recklessly dropped a match.
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS, for trying to bring us back to unconstitutional “stop and frisk” searches by pretending to be “tough on crime.” Here’s an excerpt from the Justice Department’s Report on how searches were conducted in Baltimore.
BPD’s pedestrian stops are concentrated on a small portion of Baltimore residents. BPD made roughly 44 percent of its stops in two small, predominantly African American districts that contain only 11 percent of the City’s population. Consequently, hundreds of individuals — nearly all of them African American — were stopped on at least 10 separate occasions from 2010-2015. Indeed, seven African-American men were stopped more than 30 times during this period. […]
During stops, BPD officers frequently pat down or frisk individuals as a matter of course, without identifying necessary grounds to believe that the person is armed and dangerous. And even where an initial frisk is justified, we found that officers often violate the Constitution by exceeding the frisk’s permissible scope. We likewise found many instances where officers strip search individuals without legal justification. In some cases, officers performed degrading strip searches in public, prior to making an arrest and without grounds to believe that the searched individuals were concealing contraband on their bodies.
Mr. Sessions, I have lived in this city my whole life. No police officer has ever treated me like this, and I send my teenage sons out into the world knowing that no one strip searches a white kid in Sperry Topsiders. If my kids were black, I’d be terrified. Of the police.
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS, for your unsubtle threats to hold our city hostage to your hatred of immigrants.
Collaboration between federal and local law enforcement is important, and jurisdictions whose law enforcement agencies accept funding from the Department are expected to adhere to the Department’s grant conditions, as well as to all federal laws.
You want to use our police departments to round up undocumented immigrants who pose no harm to anyone, and you don’t care if it further erodes the power of our police to keep the city safe. We’re not spending our tax dollars to break up families. Not here.
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS, for your Reefer Madness obsession with marijuana. We have no interest in permanently ruining someone’s job prospects because he gets caught with a dime bag. There is literally no evidence for your “gateway drug” theories. The War on Drugs was devastating to Baltimore, and you want to bring it back here?
FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS for thinking that we’re all just itching to get the Feds off our back so we can go back to the way things were. The death of Freddie Gray and the riots that followed broke our hearts. Do you think we came out the other side of that horror unchanged? It is no attack on law enforcement to say that the old way was a disaster. How dare you threaten the progress we’re trying to make!
AND FUCK YOU JEFF SESSIONS, because this city will survive without the Consent Decree. We have a dozen colleges and universities, two law schools, two medical schools, the best hospital in the world, a port, and the safety net of the 95 BosNYWash corridor. More importantly, people here are not falling for your fake populism as an excuse to turn on each other. We are fighting like hell to get our house in order, and we will make it.
Federal Judge James K. Bredar will hear the Justice Department’s Motion tomorrow, and is expected to enforce existing agreements regarding the Consent Decree. But whatever happens, Fuck You, Jeff Sessions. From the bottom of my Baltimore heart, Fuck You.
[US v. BPD, Motion for Continuance / Consent Decree / Justice Department Report / Mother Jones]
Chicago gave America improv comedy, the notion of long-suffering sports franchises, Playboy, the meatpacking industry, the Ferris wheel, urban architecture, comic book gangsters, Wilco, the album art for Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Muddy Waters, and Barack Obama. The list can go on another 500 items. But it’s Chicago’s food innovations that have traveled the farthest outside city limits. You have us to thank (or scorn) for the following.
Sometimes, when the wind is blowing just right, the River North neighborhood of Chicago smells like chocolate, wafting in on the breeze from a nearby factory. It’s a fitting tribute to Chicago’s rich, gooey history of baked goods, most notably the brownie, which was invented at the Palmer House Hotel at the turn of the 20th century. Like many great Chicago innovations, the creation of ...
Slow Cooker Reuben Sandwiches are perfect for leftover corned beef after your St. Patrick’s Day dinner with a quick sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and thousand island dressing.
Read more at: Slow Cooker Reuben Sandwiches http://dinnerthendessert.com/slow-cooker-reuben-sandwiches/
There is a famous story told in Chassidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson.
One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?”
The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all — the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs and act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that god commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.”
“This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”
ETA source: Tales of Hasidim Vol. 2 by Mar
I started reading this and was worried it would be something attacking atheists, or bashing religion, but this makes me really, really happy.
imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Yes. YES.
Aydın Büyüktaş has continued his Flatland project with more of these photographic panoramas folded over on themselves. Looks like he’s gotten better at picking good subjects and stitching these together…love these. (via colossal)
Tags: Aydin Buyuktas photographyCrooooowyes ok, I will watch this
A heist film featuring a getaway driver named Baby — B. A. B. Y. Baby? — directed by Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz fame? Take. My. Money. This is like the comedy version of Drive. In making the film, Wright himself was influenced by the “holy trinity” of heist films from the 90s: Point Break, Reservoir Dogs, and Heat.
See also Tony Zhou’s video tribute to Wright: How to Do Visual Comedy.
Update: Well, that was the international trailer (which is good!) and this is the American trailer (which perhaps is not as good).
Is it me or does the American trailer aim about 15 IQ points lower than the other one? (thx, david)
Tags: Baby Driver Edgar Wright movies trailers videoCrooooowThis is old but it is wonderful
Actor Michael K. Williams — who played Omar Little in The Wire and Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire — has a conversation with himself, musing if he’s been typecast for a certain type of role.
Face it, we from a certain type a people that come from a type a place that look a type a way. You know what that make us?
For a promotional video (for The Atlantic), that was unexpectedly poignant.
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CrooooowInteresting tidbit of Chicago history
don’t mess up that beautiful roast beef sandwich with fixins that aren’t also meats
Pastor Greg Locke of the Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, is mad as hell and he is not going to take it anymore.
Back in January, Pastor Greg recorded a video about how he was very mad about the Women’s March and how they shouldn’t even be able to call it a Women’s March because it was really a Planned Parenthood March and Planned Parenthood is bad, and also Madonna is bad, and it shouldn’t even have been allowed to happen in the first place! Because liberals should not be allowed to complain that Donald Trump is President, and should instead pray for him and think he is great. Or something.
And everyone laughed and laughed because he was stupid, and one woman even chose to take it upon herself to donate to Planned Parenthood in Pastor Greg’s name. And now? Now he is miffed.
He says:
“So today in the mail I got a very shocking and very interesting card. It came from Planned Parenthood, which is a very strange organization to be sending me anything at all because everyone knows my very bold and biblical stand against them,” Locke said last Tuesday.
“But here’s what’s interesting. Here’s what the card said. ‘Dear Greg Locke. Planned Parenthood Federation of America is pleased to let you know that a generous and thoughtful donation has been made in your honor by’ and then apparently the hater’s name was Christa Ginsberg in Houston, Texas. And it doesn’t say how much it was and then sincerely, you know, the Richards lady that runs Planned Parenthood,” he said.
YOU HEAR THAT LADIES? And anyone else who might get the bright idea to donate to Planned Parenthood in Pastor Greg Locke’s name? He does not want you doing that. He does not like it one bit. He does not want to get one more card from Planned Parenthood telling him that a donation has been made in his name, because he does not like Planned Parenthood. In case that was not clear.
I don’t know though. I’m not sure he’s all that sincere. I think he’s just being modest, and is secretly hoping that many, many people actually will donate to the Planned Parenthood of Middle and Eastern Tennessee in his name, and make sure the cards are forwarded to this address here:
Greg Locke
c/o Global Vision Bible Church
2060 Old Lebanon Dirt Rd
Mt Juliet, TN 37122
He may throw the cards out, but what he can never throw out is all the money that he has inspired others to give in support of reproductive rights. Let him know he’s made a difference!
Crooooowthis is great
Although he’s been acting since 1996, Michael K. Williams’ career is largely synonymous with a single character: The Wire’s Omar Little. Nearly every role Williams has taken on since he started playing Omar in 2002—from criminal roles on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and The Night Of, to comedy turns in shows like Community and The Spoils Before Dying—have had some element of the famed stick-up man looming over them. So when The Atlantic asked Williams whether he was typecast, he took the question seriously.
Rather than a simple interview answer, though, Williams’ response comes in the form of a fascinating short film, in which he appears in a number of personas, chatting with himself about that question and its connection to his life as a black man in America. It’s tense stuff, especially when a version of himself looking very much like Mr. Little pops ...
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This latest season of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has been heavy on gimmicks, with the Gang constantly looking for new ways to be inventively and creatively awful. Now, FX has hit upon virtual reality as a vehicle for the show’s mayhem, allowing anybody with a headset to get way closer to Dennis, Dee, Charlie, Mac, and Frank than they could ever possibly want.
Featuring appearances from all five of the show’s stars, the VR experience posits itself as the setup for one of Mac’s ridiculous “Project Badass” stunts, with the end result at least a little cooler than the group’s resident would-be stuntman taping fireworks to himself and riding a bike into some mattresses. Mostly, though, it’s just an excuse for the crew to tell Mac’s accomplice—i.e., the viewer—that they’re going to die, and criticizing him for the ...
Ronald Reagan was 69 years old at his inauguration as president in 1981, the oldest anyone had ever been on taking the office—a record that Donald Trump recently beat when he was inaugurated at age 70. Beset by concerns about his advanced age from the beginning, Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease after he…
CrooooowHey David, its your boy!
