One of my favorite new TV/podcast genres is "insane shit that happened in the 90s." I was a kid when all the stuff with OJ, the Unabomber, Lorena Bobbit, Monica Lewinsky, and the DC sniper happened.
I remember all this stuff going down, but, man, all my memories are wrong.
We're watching the Manhunt series about the Olympic bombing, and I don't think I ever realized just how screwed Richard Jewell got.
This is a theme in these shows. Bobbit and Lewinsky also come out as much more sympathetic characters than I gave them credit for as a kid.
Also, growing up in Charleston, I remember when Eric Rudolph's brother cut his hand off to...protest the FBI and the media?
He had it reattached at the hospital my dad worked at.
We used to drive by his house every time I went to get a haircut. (At least, everyone said it was his house.) His front yard was full of religious signs.
Yes, good point, but still the same era in my mind
Hahaha you know what makes this NRA video really hilarious?
Having a gun in the house drastically increases the chances that a spouse or child will be killed in an act of domestic violence or that a family member will use the firearm to commit suicide.
"Over half of all intimate partner homicides are committed with guns. Indeed, a woman is five times more likely to be murdered when her abuser has access to a gun." efsgv.org/learn/type-of-…
To channel @eisingerj: You can't have a functioning democracy without a functioning tax collection system that people generally see as fair and equitable.
What we have, though, is a broken system that punishes the poor, while letting the ultra-wealthy run roughshod over it.
Gutting the IRS has also helped fuel the rise of massive dark money groups. As the agency's budget was whittled away, it diverted more and more funds away from nonprofit oversight -- because it's a revenue collection agency, and those groups are tax exempt.
TFW you're walking down Connecticut Ave with an apple pie on a nice afternoon, and you notice the bus stops are all showing images of violent insurrectionists that the FBI is trying to hunt down
There's a term in climate change lexicon "blissonance" that describes the mix of joy and terror you get on a warm winter day, knowing it shouldn't be that warm.
I'd say it also applies to walking down the street with pie, and then being subtly reminded the city is in danger.
‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’ - Trump, in an hour-long call, pressuring Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Oh Lordy, there are tapes
Bet y'all didn't expect Trump to prove election fraud exists by possibly committing election fraud
He sold himself as the greatest negotiator and dealmaker in history, but now he can't even get his own party to support something that his opponents already want.
He spent weeks obsessing over election fraud conspiracy theories while a bill was negotiated and passed by Congress, then he demanded something his own allies don't even want.
Now millions face the loss of unemployment benefits, eviction, and a possible government shutdown.