Jim Bakker in screen captures from his current show, “The Jim Bakker Show”. (Google Images)   This has been one long, crazy story. Nearly unbelievable, except, very true. Sadly true. As a…

James Baldwin, left, and Bobby Kennedy. (Google Images)   By the time Robert F. Kennedy was killed in 1968, he had come to be viewed by many as a politician who cared…

Image and caption from PTL.   When PTL fell apart, I was just 5. I didn’t know about the sex scandals, but I do remember my parents discussing the Bakkers’ outsized lifestyle.…

  Jim and Tammy Faye (Image Source)   It was thirty years ago that the tremendous house of cards that Jim Bakker had constructed out of TV ministry, millions in donations, and…

Jim And Tammy Faye Bakker in all their 1980s glory. (Image Source)   I started composing this post months ago. I stopped partially because my blogging, as a whole, slowed way down…

Happy Sunday! It’s been a couple of months since my last “Some… Stuff”, so let’s kick off the start of Fall with some links, shall we? (Getty Images)   First up, this…

(Image Source: Inverse)   It’s mind boggling to me, but back in the 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, the federal government paid a then-unknown, and very young Orson Welles…

John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Dick Gregory. (Image Source: Yoko Ono’s Twitter account)   Dick Gregory, comedian, entertainer, and civil rights activist, died last Saturday, August 19th, at the age of 84.…

Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver in the early 1970s. (Image Source) I’m currently reading “PTL:”The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire” by John Wigger. Spoiler alert: my next…