RGRobins
rgrobins.bsky.social
RGRobins
@rgrobins.bsky.social
Retired historian (American Christianity), working EFL teacher living in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Prone to random thoughts and scattershot expressions. Old-school liberal, moderately left-of-center in the current scheme of things. Married, father of 7.
Americans can do it—no problem. Just like we can bridge two vowel sounds (like the “aw” in “law” and the “a” in “and” without needing an intrusive “r” like our English friends and their lawr-n-order.
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Absolutely IS pronounced twice by all normal red-blooded Texans, who don’t, by the way, run to Merriam Webster’s before they say what they learned how to say at their mama’s knee! The only difference is that it’s not really two “g’s” to us; it’s more of an ng (⟨ŋ⟩) and a “j”: loŋ- jivity.
October 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
But . . . just one bullet? Is that ink under the water drops or on top of them? Can't really tell. Hmmm . . . . .
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
So . . . now it's a staircase. Start walking.
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"But then again, Oh, what the fuck." That was part of the original commandment but it broke off when Moses tripped and dropped the tablets on his way down from Mt. Sinai.
September 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Evangelicals always catch the trend a bit late but they often do it pretty well, actually, and it really turbo-charges the propaganda.
September 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Now let's not deny that's she's pretty cut and leaning toward the hot side. Can't take that away from her, despite her blasphemous portrait of a Golden-orange Calf/Heifer/whatever that is right in the middle of a Holy Ghost service.
September 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Well, I grew up Pentecostal but never held that against them. I mean, you take your orgasms as you can get them, right. Praise the Lord and thank you, Jesus.
September 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
But it's also very powerful and perversely effective. Evangelicals have instinctively understood the affective dimension of cognition from the get-go. The music, the mood, the pervasive (post-Hillsong) blue-light ambience makes whatever message is proclaimed FEEL incontrovertibly TRUE.
September 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Almost like she's trying to get the Bible/historic Christianity off the hook. The specific millenarianism inspiring many modern Evangelicals (Dispensationalism) has 18th c. roots, but those passages, cryptic though they may be, are there and have spawned millenarian fervor over the centuries.
September 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Let's be careful not to spread false information. Robinson does not seem to have been a right winger in any respect other perhaps than his attitude toward guns. We actually don't know that much about his politics, but clearly NOT a right winger overall.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Naturally, he was rooting for another sinner.
September 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trump's A Punk Ass Bitch (TPAB)
YouTube video by Steven Wilhelm
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
That's taking the "Broken Windows" school of law enforcement to a whole new level!
August 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Trump is the all-time champ of mortgage and lending fraud, overstating or understating the value of properties to gain either better interest rates or tax benefits. Chutzpa, presuming and declaring Cook guilty on flimsy, partial evidence while already himself convicted in a court of law.
August 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM