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December 2025

December 05, 2025

If you hear any noise, it ain’t the boys

Bars and dance clubs understand that one way to get more men to show up...

December 05, 2025

LBCF: Humbert Steele

Every character the authors say is a Good Guy acts like a jerk. That's true...

December 04, 2025

The Inner Ring (C.S. Lewis on the Epstein lists)

"To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will...

December 04, 2025

For the least they can possibly do

“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her....

December 03, 2025

Recent reads (12.03.25)

Freelance A.I. scammers, Appalachian Mardi Gras, getting Big in Japan, and a creepy archaeological mystery.

December 02, 2025

There’s a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was

"All that happened is the range of options for other people expanded and he perceived...

December 01, 2025

Rules and notes for a Christmas playlist, revisited

This post is an annual tradition here because, as a retail worker, it helps me...

November 2025

November 30, 2025

Take up wickedness again

"For a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again;...

November 28, 2025

LBCF: Faith and reason

In Left Behind, "faith" is good and "reason" and "intellect" are bad. But none of...

November 26, 2025

Men behaving badly (11.26.25)

May every day be another wonderful secret.

November 25, 2025

Smart people saying smart things (11.25.25)

Featuring Michael Woolf, Pema Levy and Ari Berman, Spencer Ackerman, Stuart Hall, Tatiana Schlossberg, and...

November 24, 2025

ICE vs. churches (cont’d.)

Does DHS have an "official plan" to "raid churches"? Maybe. But considering what its already...

November 23, 2025

You’re never gonna keep me down

'The Carpenter's Son' and

November 21, 2025

LBCF: Lunch with Dad

Chloe's mother was "devout" -- meaning she regularly warned her about the imminent one-world government,...

November 20, 2025

Feliz Navidad

Night riders from ICE and the Border Patrol are targeting immigrant churches and will kidnap...

November 19, 2025

Smart people saying smart things (11.19.25)

Please listen to Tressie McMillan Cottom, E.B. White, Mark Silk, Becky Garrison, Bhaskar Sunkara, and...

November 18, 2025

The kingdom of heaven is within

Free your mind and your ass will follow.

November 17, 2025

We’ll think of something funny when we write your epitaph

Any kind of heaven every body doesn't get in Wont seem like a heaven to...

November 13, 2025

‘Political violence’ and Johnny and Nina

You can run on for a long time, run on for a long time, run...

November 12, 2025

I get knocked down, but I get up again

The one-panel gag from The Onion that sums up all of white evangelical devotion, spirituality,...

November 10, 2025

The gales of November

If there is a common theme linking all of these links and stories, I haven't...

November 07, 2025

LBCF: CSI Atlanta

Wherein we discuss why a dogged insurance investigator would have made a better protagonist for...

November 06, 2025

Tales from the religion press release slush pile

The ginormous Mobius-strip monument to answered prayer won't be built until you people fork over...

November 05, 2025

Trying not to make this blog all Nazis all the time

But as much as I'm trying to talk about other things, the steady flow of...

November 03, 2025

More American Nazis in the news

Some Republicans are furious with Tucker Carlson for legitimizing actual Nazi and white nationalist Nick...

October 2025

October 31, 2025

LBCF: A routine flight

Does the authors' Bad Writing result from their immoral view of the world? Or does...

October 30, 2025

South Carerdddd

A story of an aging authoritarian leader who clings to power despite being increasingly out...

October 29, 2025

Unrepentant Nazis in the News (Story No. 4)

The upsetting thing about all of these Nazis (yes, actually, not hyperbole Nazis) is that...

October 29, 2025

Recent reads (10.29.25)

Tales of murder and mystery, Nephilim conspiracies, and the importance of asking questions like "Why...

October 28, 2025

Trump DOL is desperately thirsty for Tom Brady

I never thought I'd say this as an Eagles fan, but I'm worried about Tom...

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