Only one in three cardinals has actually been appointed by the Pope.

TORNADO

Ahh, I love a good game of "Yell Out Your Favorite Inclement Weather Condition"...

I don't have time to dig up all the receipts right now, but I belive it's because the Republicans made faith-based programs on for federal grants about 10 years ago in an attempt to starve real charities that supported LGBT people, immigrants, etc.
I think.

It's not just looks! All the bare headed new world vultures/ condors have loose neck skin that can contract to pull up their ruff for insulation or relax to lower it for cooling. Basically a built in hoodie!

Hoodie pulled up 🥰

Uff. I worked for an insurance company once that was what I'd consider one of the better ones -- basically just existed to submit Medicare claims -- and I still felt like I needed a shower after work.

I strongly feel that the billionaire pathology involves no longer thinking of money as money but as a sort of gamer score they can compare to see who's Winning. All other metrics of success fade away and they lose track of any measure of personal value other than The Score.

Meanwhile that $200M is actually in someone else's hands, doing something else. So it's like virtual wealth that exists only in theory, but it's actually double-counting money to make the numbers go up.

It doesn't help that a lot of these valuations are not dollars in a bank but weird potential valuations of real estate and stuff. "If you sold this business (assuming Google would buy it) we think you could probably get $200M for it, so we'll add $200M to your scorecard."

Ooh, that's a lot for a lifesaving procedure, maybe I should just die. 😡

Ah, the Golden Honsun!

"I can't imagine doing research on my own without asking the information slop machine to squeeze out some preprocessed word goop for me."
Does he think this makes him sound smart??

He's just wearing deely boppers.

Judgemental orb!

...okay but when you find a brand of jeans that fits right and has nice deep pockets, YOU KEEP A SPARE.