Darrell Waltrip's family has announced he has had a recent diagnosis of cognitive disease, which is causing some minor symptoms and will keep him away from the limelight. "Darrell is happy and otherwise healthy." ... Full statement:
For the record: Christianity is the only religion to ever uphold women as true equals. Every other religion is about suppression through force and coercion.
We say goodbye to another legend today 🕊️
Mike McFarland, the veteran voice actor, ADR director, scriptwriter and producer, has passed away at 56. For generations of anime fans, he was especially known as the original Funimation English voice of Master Roshi in Dragon Ball, alongside major roles in Attack on Titan, One Piece, Tokyo Ghoul and Fullmetal Alchemist.
Some of his most memorable characters included:
• Master Roshi — Dragon Ball
• Jean Kirstein — Attack on Titan
• Buggy the Clown — One Piece
• Koutarou Amon — Tokyo Ghoul
• Jean Havoc — Fullmetal Alchemist / Brotherhood
• Gordon Agrippa — Black Clover
• Mashirao Ojiro — My Hero Academia
• Carnage Kabuto — One-Punch Man
• Teppei Sugo — Psycho-Pass
• Yajirobe — Dragon Ball
• Ectoplasm — My Hero Academia
• Ryoji “Ranka” Fujioka — Ouran High School Host Club
• Cain Nightroad — Trinity Blood
His influence also extended far beyond the microphone. McFarland directed English dubs for major productions including Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball, the Rebuild of Evangelion films, Summer Wars and Wolf Children, helping shape how an entire generation experienced anime in English.
Rest in peace, Mike McFarland. From Master Roshi and Buggy to Jean Kirstein, his voice and work behind the scenes became part of countless anime memories. 🕊️
Porn taught you sex was recreation.
The clinic is where you pay for that lie.
I'm 44. Got married at 21. Had our first kid nine months later because we knew what we were doing.
Five kids total. My wife was pregnant for 8 years of our marriage. We hit the food bank so many times the lady started calling us by name. Pawned my tools twice. Drove a van with no AC in Montana summers and no heat that actually worked in the winters.
We chose that.
On purpose.
Here's what nobody wants to say:
Abortion doesn't start at the clinic.
It starts in a bedroom with a guy who learned about sex from a screen. Who thinks it's entertainment. Stress relief. Something you do because you're bored and she said yes.
Nobody told him his body was designed to make people. Not sometimes. Not accidentally. That's the whole point of the equipment.
The baby isn't the accident.
His orgasm was.
I found my dad's magazines when I was 12. Thought I understood women by 16.
I understood nothing. I understood pixels and fantasy and a version of sex that doesn't exist anywhere outside a camera setup in the San Fernando Valley.
I got lucky. Married a woman who wanted children more than she wanted comfort. We both did.
But most guys? They got the same magazines. The same screens. The same lie.
And now they're standing in clinic parking lots wondering how recreation made a person.
Every abortion has a man attached to it.
A man who said "I'm not ready" like readiness is a feeling and not a decision.
A man who disappeared. Literally. Or just went quiet and let her do the math alone.
A man who wanted the pleasure but not the weight.
Pro-life starts with your zipper. With teaching your sons that sex makes people and that's not a bug in the system — that's the system.
My oldest son is 21. Got married at 20.
His wife went into labor at 24 weeks.
Blake came out at 1 lb 15 oz. Died twice on the table. Came back twice.
Six months old now. Still on oxygen. Still smaller than the other babies.
Still here.
I look at him and I think about all the math that didn't get done. All the choices that got made before he existed that meant he would exist.
My wife and I chose poverty at 21.
My son and his wife chose to fight at 24 weeks.
Blake chose to keep breathing.
Choices all the way down. Not accidents.
Porn taught an entire generation that sex is content. Entertainment. Something you consume.
Then they're shocked when consumption creates a person.
You want to be pro-life?
Kill the lie first.
Sex isn't recreation. It's creation.
Your body knows this even if your browser history doesn't.
Bill Paxton died at just 61 & when I tell you I miss seeing this man’s face in movies, I mean it. Paxton had a sneaky versatility about him: he could do drama, action, sci-fi- and above all- he was funny. That’s such a lethal combination for an actor as intelligent as Paxton. It’s also the reason why his filmography is incredibly deep. We lost a great actor way too soon.
It was my mother’s 86th birthday the other day. I’ve spent the weekend having quiet thoughts of gratitude about her.
I just heard Giorgia Meloni, the Italian PM say something profound & beautiful …
“ Children make women stronger in the work they do, they are not a limit”
I don't know if we'll ever win the war against human trafficking and child sexual exploitation in this lifetime. But I know Who wins one day.
And until that day comes, we'll keep fighting to rescue one more.
Caution didn't win women the vote, or equal pay, or fair sport, or the right to single-sex spaces. Sophie Cunningham is standing up for women and girls everywhere and it's glorious. Fuck caution.