Weirdest damned brain-fart just now: I read this, read the name right and everything, but all I could think of was AL doesn’t hate white liberals. He hate’s Pinkertons and people who piss him off."
Then a quick head shake made me go “Sharpton… not Swearengen… different Als…”.
Of course now I have visions of DEADWOOD starring Al Sharpton. (In this week’s episode: Bullock must apologize to Sharpton for his comments about nappy headed Navahos.)
I’m having a sudden inspiration. Once he’s planted, send a team in to the cemetary late at night with a truck full of lumber. Build a nice solid wooden platform over the grave.
And dance! Everybody dance!
Fucker will probably be in a big mausoleum – but maybe big enough to lay down a platform inside!
I’d be more inclined to just bring in one piece of lumber. A pointy piece. Just to make sure he doesn’t rise from the grave…
grumblegrumble
I was thinking of a wooden outhouse…
Damn, and now that’s on my mind.
Wow. I tend to seesaw between loving and hating Hitchens. I think this will put me in the ‘love’ column for awhile…
Puh-leeze. This is the same fallacy as the claim that requiring government institutions to be religiously neutral (e.g. abolishing institutional school prayer) infringes on the “religious liberty” of the people who were favored by the particular religious bias the government had been practicing.
(The difference is that the people advancing that argument are mostly cynical hacks, and I think you are falling into the same fallacy through honest error.)
When I firts heard about Falwell’s passing, this scenario came to me:
God suddenly appears in Jerry’s office:
God: Ok Jerry, enough of your shit, let’s go.
Jerry: Uh oh, you’re rea…Thump.
Anyway, these things come in 3’s, who’s going with him?
Well, Roberston and Dobson would be the trifecta but the trope is only that famous people die in threes, not that they have to have anything particularly in common. Vonnegut went a couple of weeks ago, maybe he counts as one of them. Number three could be somebody just as random.
Yolanda King (daughter of MLK & Coretta Scott King) died the same day as Falwell, and was also a Baptist, albeit a liberal and very pro-gay Baptist. I think she also split with the Southern Baptists over the same issues that caused Jimmy Carter and others to depart and that Falwell championed.
(It caused some confusion in a couple of radio reports who identified her as also anti-gay and Baptist, but it’s her sister Bernice who’s anti-gay. Yolanda gave keynote speeches at gay fundraisers and was rumored to be openly closeted. [Strangely, none of MLK’s children have ever married or produced children.])
Nobody else noteworthy so far.
Tammy Faye is in the late stages of lung cancer right now too. She became very gay-friendly and (I think) geninely compassionate and inclusive in her faith after the PTL scandal. My opinion of her changed dramatically over the years. I went from thinking she was just another cynical televangelist bigot into thinking she actually has a good heart and mirabile dictu, is truly a sincere, compassionate and non-judgemental Christian. A televangelist is about the last person you’d expect to actually practice Christianity but truth is stranger than fiction.
Openly closeted? Is that like “Don’t ask, don’t tell”?
Examples of the openly closeted are Anderson Cooper, Jodie Foster, Robbie Williams, etc… Basically they’re rumored to be, never have their names linked with a member of the opposite sex, are seen in the company of people of the same sex in domestic or date-like scenaria, and though they do not ‘come out’ neither do they deny when outright asked but usually respond with an “I don’t talk about that aspect of my life” comment. Openly closeted is usually the final step before openly gay.
Although, I can think of one actor who was considered openly closeted but was actually a closeted straight guy. Dan Futterman of Judging Amy and a multi-part Will & Grace and award winning screenwriter for Capote was thought to be gay and answered the “I don’t answer that because I don’t want the public to know anything of my private life as I play both gay and straight roles and don’t want them to have preconceived notions of me as either” response, but in fact he’s straight and has kids with his girlfriend.
I can’t provide a cite yet though I’m sure one will be on the Internet soon, but Entertainment Tonight reports that Falwell’s personal estate is worth over $10 million with an additional $40 million in life insurance policies.
The beneficiaries of the life insurance policies- whether family members, the ministry, the college, or some combination thereof- are unknown (at least to ET- I’m still wondering how the death of a minister is Entertainment) but my guess is ministry/college. Even for a 25 year old in absolutely perfect health a $40 million life insurance policy would have to cost millions, so it was probably paid for by ministry/college funds to benefit the ministry/college. There are thousands of public universities with endowments nowhere remotely close to $40 million, so it’s a good move actually.
Jesus just left a robe.
Falwell totally did ministry better than Jesus. But then, Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication (don’t ya get me wrong…).
Yeah, but Jesus totally nailed (ha!) the KMFDM sound…
It seems to be entertaining plenty of people in this thread.
Homo humpatorium! Play safe, y’all. 
How… dare you?!?!?
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