Classic card of the week
Frank Pastore, 1986 Topps Considering he sent the card my way with accompanying comments, I’m going to let Sean take the lead here: “No, no Frank – sweatier . Yeah, that’s good. Make your whole leather warm-up wet. Now do the ‘molester face.’ Yeah. It’s a wrap!” Normally I’d say that I have nothing else to add, however I went on Wikipedia and as it turns out, I have something else to add. On 5 January 2004 Pastore became the host of The Frank Pastore Show on KKLA 99.5 FM in Los Angeles. It is the largest Christian talk show in the United States. Wow. This guy? Really? Okay. But for various reasons I think it’s warranted that we now retire the term “molester face.” On 5 November 2004 an opinion piece Pastore authored, entitled Christian Conservatives Must Not Compromise” was published in the Los Angeles Times. In it, he references Leftism as “the evil ideology” and says that “the Left must defeated in the realm of ideas,” and has provoked a strong reaction on some message boards. I enjo...