This was generally the case, although he did make errant shitty comments about actresses' bodies from time to time (his review of I Am Curious: Yellow was heavily about how he found it unsexy, partially because Lena Nyman was "pudgy").

Like, clergy sexual abuse and the associated conspiracy to cover it up is absolutely illegal. And with churches using member funds licentiously, my impression is that parishioners are generally approving. If not, it's an issue for them to resolve internally.

I'm not on board with the antisocial characterization, but the tax status isn't going to shift those incentives at all.

Things like the fraud and conspiracy you're describing should be enforced through the criminal code.

Evangelical pastors famously view homosexuality as a slippery slope issue.

I know it's because they're hacks, but I can't get past producing a video self-satisfiedly announcing that you went through the bare-minimum research involved in a profile piece.

All social mobility was downward and enforced by the constant threat of death squads.

Umbrellas still turn inside out at the slightest of breezes.

The incredible irony of "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

The incredible irony of "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Even Marx predicated this sort of political involvement on a specific kind of class consciousness that had to be actively constructed.

What happens when an unstoppable Masterful Gambit meets an immovable Art of the Deal.

What happens when an unstoppable Masterful Gambit meets an immovable Art of the Deal.

The thing about airline pilots suggests this is cribbed from H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (specifically the part that was supposed to be portraying a new dark age).

Our best chance of saving democracy seems to be boosting goldbrickers to positions of power.