Your Bag of Nothing for Wednesday, October 9, 2024

  • I don’t know if I can call myself an Elvis fan, but I’m the mystique pulls me. You won’t catch me listening to much of his music, but you will find me inquiring about his history. So, it will be no surprise that last night’s Oprah special interview with his granddaughter Riley Keough was a must-see for me. And yes, I will buy the book, Lisa Marie’s autobiography, which she finished writing for her mother. I guess since Riley finished the book, it technically isn’t an autobiography. Here are the two most shocking things in the book, and it deals with Lisa Marie grieving her son who died by suicide. She kept him inside her house for two months before finally being able to bury him.
    • And I know that I’ve mentioned this plenty of times. However, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson were married. They very much could have had a child together. Not only would that child have the blood of the King of Rock and Roll and the King of Pop, but would be the heir to both estates. Man, that would be a lot of wealth and history. That would also have included the Beatles catalog, which Jackson oddly owned. It would be something to own just one of those catalogs, but all three, that’s insane!
  • Just a reminder, there’s a difference between a mammoth and a mastodon.
    • Mastodons had flatter heads, and mammoths had a bulging bone knob on top of their skulls. The Columbian mammoth was also much larger than its distant cousin—fully-grown males weighed nearly 10 tons and stood about 13 feet tall—while male American mastodons reached heights of 10 feet and weighed in around 6 tons.
    • The molars of mastodons featured cone-shaped cusps suited for crushing twigs and other kinds of vegetation. The name mastodon literally means “breast tooth,” referring to the the “nipple”-shaped bumps along the top edges of these animals’ teeth. Mammoths, on the other hand, had ridged teeth—ideal for grazing and grinding tough grasses into small bits, like modern elephants.
  • Gateway Church members file class-action suit against North Texas church
  • A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.

    • Like the Koch brothers, the Mercer family and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. “It’s hard to think of other megafunders in the country as big on the theocratic end of the spectrum,” says Peter Montgomery, who oversees the Right Wing Watch project at People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group.

  • I had to click on the photo to get a better look at how he secured his house to the ground.

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