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20 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I wanted to write this when Eminem took a knee for the Superbowl halftime show earlier this year, but I didn't care enough. However, after reading some Mexican fake news about a 30-second diss track Eminem made for AMLO, the president of Mexico, I h...
19 May 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." 2 Peter 2:1 Je...
11 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Christianity is for the underdogs. It's for people who have the odds stacked against them. Christianity is actually for everybody, of course, but only the underdogs ever receive it. Being an underdog doesn't necessitate your participation in Chris...
8 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
While traveling in Latin America, it can become necessary to paint on the wall of a cracked-out taqueria to communicate effectively. If you're not fluent in the local language, whether it be Spanish or loathing, it is often expedient to scrawl your...
5 May 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I believed in Santa Claus for over 30 years. In spite of this belief, not one time did a guy named Santa Claus actually climb down the chimney to deliver me presents. My faith was true, but the object of my faith was not. It was a hard awakening,...
4 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've noticed a fair amount of frustration with American leftists by people who disagree with them. This frustration expresses itself by using derogatory terms such as "libtard," etc. This reaction is only natural, but it is the equivalent of a Navy...
30 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When Se7en was released in 1995, I went to see it with some friends. We all went to The Red Lion Pub in Chicago afterward and "discussed the movie" over pints of Guinness, because that's what we went to movies to do: Learn and/or discover something...
20 Apr 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Listening to this song by a group of singers from the west coast of Colombia, it occurred to me, the reason for the coming hell. Tonight was the first time I've ever heard this song, so it has that glow that songs only ever have the first time you d...
19 Apr 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Remember in the 90s, when Bill Clinton was going through the Monica Lewinsky scandal, how everybody said they "don't care" about his personal life, as long as it doesn't interfere with his ability to do his job? Remember Chris Rock (was it Chris Roc...
11 Apr 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I was watching a documentary about "Narcocorridos" (drug ballads) a couple years ago, a phenomenon in Mexico where the artist is commissioned by the cartel to write songs about their exploits. In an age in which no artists can make an independent li...
