

Ted Turner is probably a bastard right?
He came up in a previous thread as one of those debatable cases. I figure, the guy was a billionaire and that usually automatically makes you a bastard, but he seems to have done some, if not good, certainly entertaining shit in his life. What are people's thoughts on him?
Dan J. Sullivan running as a republican against Senator Dan S. Sullivan in the Alaska senatorial race gives me hope
nytimes.comDoes anyone ever face consequences?
Its hard to consider justice will come for the monsters in government right now when
>1. They were in power from 2017-2021 doing >2. Out of power from 2021-2025 and faced zero consequences >3. Now back in power and hurting people again, arguably at a greater scale
Does anyone ever face justice? Rumsfeld and Cheney got to die at an old ages. Bush is sharing mints with Michelle Obama. Joe McCarthy got to keep being a senator. Is there ever a road to holding these bastards accountable when you get into the annals of power? Or is this whole Behind the Bastards project just cold comfort? We all agree these peoples were the worst in our small corner of the internet but beyond that, nobody really cares?
Reminded me of Jamie Loftus and her Cathy Binge
bsky.appCan you imagine if a Muslim "hijacked" a flight like this?
friendlyatheist.comMitch McConnell certainly has a backup career on Veggie Tales
reddit.comRoy Cohn was so much stranger than his episode would have you think
youtube.comHearing 'bout good old Mitch got me thinking about this sketch
youtube.comWho is your favorite Friend of the Pod?
I think I understand the definition. A bastard, who may or may not have had an episode of their own, who frequently appears as a side character in another bastard's episode. Examples: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Raygun, LRH, Walt Disney
In 1938 Walt Disney gave a warm welcome and personal tour of his studio to Nazi Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
hollywoodreporter.comBastard Suggestion: The Beat Poets had a tendency to be enormous self destructive, and in more than one case homicidal bastards. Trailer for Naked Lunch Included
youtube.comThe man who did the reflecting pool, John J. Cafaro. Owner of, I shit you not, Greenwater Services
bsky.appBleak House Catalogue
I'm really interested in Del Toro's library he has emassed in bleak house, particular various books he has. Does anyone know if there is an official catalogue of the contents?
Legally how can the UFC fight be pay per view?
Yes I know, because they are stealing and wildly corrupt. But, its being paid for with money from the American Taxpayer right? Like public parks, monuments, the Smithsonian. They all are free and open to the public because its tax payer money that funds them. The UFC fight by all rights, as dumb as it is, it should be free and publicly broadcast. if you buy the pay per view could you have legal standing to sue that it should have been for free?
Nearly Got Grifted by a Youtube Bastard
So youtube's algorithm served me up this interesting video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc3ffK46uhU) if you want the full experience of what I got watch it first and fell how I felt when the rug got pulled out from me.
The video about Baba Yaga and its was really interesting at first, the person is a genuinely good storyteller. Anyway, half way through she suddenly brings up that she's a "therapist" (more on that later) and this is all for you to buy her "therapy" app betwixt or whatever and it starts getting all Jordan B. Petersony but with less tangents. Jungian Archetypes clean your room, buy my thing. And I just felt gross. Like I got pulled in by some obscene phone caller. Or just a visceral confirmation of what I already know to be intellectually true. Everyone is susceptible to a grift or culty thing, myself included.
So I look up this lady, Hazel Gale, and she is a former kickboxer who became a HYPNOtherapist. That didn't work out I guess so she decided to make an app that gameifies therapy and start making content.
TldR; Watch out for weird grifty pseudoacademic crap on youtube