John Masters, Author at Deep Something

Spotlight – A Movie Review

December 10, 2015 B. John 301 Views 0 Comments Biography, catholic church, Drama, History, Josh Singer, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Newspaper, Rachel McAdams, Tom McCarthy

Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d’Arcy James and Stanley Tucci, SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT is a tense investigative dramatic-thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest cover-ups in modern times.

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Big Talk About Terrorists

December 6, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 318 Views 0 Comments Ammosexuals, Facebook, Guns, Jihad, Kings Mountain, Terrorists

Suddenly, everyone’s a warrior in the war against terror. That is of course only the terrorists attacks that 1. Don’t involve white male American terrorists, and/or 2. Aren’t likely to actually happen in the first place. Take inspiration for the protection of the homeland from some Facebook posts from early this morning. Here you’ll see the batshittery we’ve devolved into in this country. It started with this fairly incoherent post, which I mostly just ignored after assuming the person who wrote it was either high, drunk, or both.

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Christmas Cup Craziness

November 11, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 390 Views 0 Comments Christmas, Donald Trump, Josh Feurerstein, Starbucks, War on Christmas

By now you’ve likely heard the craziness of some conservatives about Starbuck’s holiday cup design. You’ve probably heard about it because of one idiotic attention whore, who claims to be a pastor, Josh Feurerstein. He apparently managed to finally have a video go viral (trust me, he’s produced some doozies in his efforts to get attention), where he raises a stink about Starbucks, because of their holiday cup design…plain red with their green logo.

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Evangelical Ugliness Directed at the Pope

October 1, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 302 Views 0 Comments Facebook, Krazy Kristian Kooks, Pope Francis, Teabangelicals

Unless you live under a rock, you know the Pope visited the US last week. There was much hope that this Pope might further soften the exclusive tone of Catholic doctrine as espoused by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and while never moving to change doctrine, he did give several speeches indicating that he believed the Church’s emphasis needs to move away from culture war issues to caring for the poor and taking care of our planet. This, of course, set the hair on fire of many of America’s evangelical wing. When Ratzinger was Pope, they had a friend in Rome, but now the two branches of Christianity seem to be, once again, going their separate ways.

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Tony Perkins’ Mouth is Moving, So He’s Lying

September 28, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 393 Views 0 Comments FRC, Islam, jesus, KKK, Muslims, Old Testament, Tony Perkins

It pretty much goes without saying that, if Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council (FRC) is talking, he is mostly likely telling a lie. There may be no other group that spends more time perfecting the art of lying for Jesus than the FRC. Having lost the marriage-equality fight, they need a new demon to keep the dollars flowing in (grifters gotta grift), and lying for Jesus pays so well, so Perkins is now after Muslims.

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The Home of the Brave?

September 20, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 217 Views 0 Comments

We’ve pretty much that line in the National Anthem a joke, haven’t we. A few years ago, as part of a publicity stunt, some LED boards were put up in cities around the country, and we all freaked. Most recently, we have let a child’s engineering project scare the crap out of us. We’ve become a nation of nasty, sniffling cowards. Let’s just be honest about it. Anyone that doesn’t look like us or believe exactly as we do is automatically a threat. And now, to cover our own embarrassment, we double down on the ugliness towards the kid. What a bunch of brave people.

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Is Huckabee the Biggest Jerk in America?

September 20, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 547 Views 0 Comments Ash Cartner, Eric Fanning, Mike Huckabee, Secretary of the Army

So Mike Huckabee’s latest rant against the Black Man in the White House. President Obama has nominated Eric K. Fanning as the Secretary of Army. What has the Huckster’s knickers all in a wad? The fact that Under Secretary Fanning happens to be gay…because, clearly, Rev. Asshole doesn’t think gay people should have jobs.

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Dark Ages in America: Now?

September 1, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 942 Views 1 Comment Climate Change, Creationism, Dark Ages, Education, evolution, exploration, Republic

In the previous century, America, through public and private cooperation and investment built an unrivaled infrastructure. We became the country that invented the things of a new and exciting world, and we built those things. We put in place a social safety net. We weren’t perfect, but we tried, and We looked to the future with excitement and anticipation, but today, we seem to be in a rush to go backwards as far and fast as possible. We fear everything, and demand absolute security, and think it can be found in some nostalgic past.

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Scott Lively Loves Him Some Nazis

August 31, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 544 Views 1 Comment Abiding Truth Ministries, bigotry, discrimination, Religious Freedom, RFRA, Scott Lively, SRO

Scott Lively is an attorney who heads up something called the “Abiding Truth Ministries.” He’s risen to some prominence lately by taking his message of hate and bigotry towards LGBT people international. He found an especially receptive audience in Ugandan government officials, and helped pass anti-gay legislation which called for the death penalty for homosexual acts. His latest screed on World Nut Daily uses the same tired claims.

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Science vs Jindal

August 30, 2015August 29, 2015 B. John 521 Views 0 Comments Climate Change, Jindal, Katrina, new orleans, Obama

Well, Bobby Jindal succeeds, yet again, in making an idiot of himself. He apparently decided that he should tell President Obama what the President should and shouldn’t say during his visit to New Orleans. An article on Think Progress discusses Jindal’s fear that actual facts and science might be discussed in Louisiana this week.

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Poll-2016 Presidential Election

August 29, 2015August 29, 2015 B. John 368 Views 2 Comments

So, let’s take the long list, as it seems to be shaking out today, and see who you all think should be the next President. Note, this is “Should” be President. We’ll ask in a later poll who you think will be. We’ll let the herd thin itself a little before that.