{"id":4094,"date":"2016-06-17T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T03:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T03:42:13","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-54","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">es, with a pref\u00ader\u00adence for con\u00adtent from aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics and influ\u00aden\u00adtial voic\u00ades. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>A QUOTE&nbsp;I COULDN\u2019T GET OUT OF MY HEAD<\/b><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI expect to die in bed, my suc\u00adces\u00adsor will die in prison and his suc\u00adces\u00adsor will die a mar\u00adtyr in the pub\u00adlic square. His suc\u00adces\u00adsor will pick up the shards of a ruined soci\u00adety and slow\u00adly help rebuild civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion, as the church has done so often in human his\u00adto\u00adry.\u201d \u2014 Car\u00addi\u00adnal Fran\u00adcis George (1937\u20132015)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Includ\u00ading a quote may or may not become a recur\u00adring thing. Feed\u00adback wel\u00adcomed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>LINKS WHICH CAUGHT MY INTEREST<\/b><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some help\u00adful arti\u00adcles about pro\u00adcess\u00ading the mass shoot\u00ading at a gay club in Orlan\u00addo:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2016\/06\/12\/orlando-can-still-weep-together\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Orlan\u00addo Can We Still Weep Togeth\u00ader?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, blog)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/australia.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/orlando-grief-in-a-time-of-culture-war\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orlan\u00addo \u2014 Grief In A Time Of Cul\u00adture War<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Ould, Gospel Coali\u00adtion)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rzim.org\/global-blog\/tears-for-orlando\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tears For Orlan\u00addo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Vince Vitale, RZIM)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/5-ways-christians-can-respond-to-the-orlando-shooting\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 Ways Chris\u00adtians Can Respond To The Orlan\u00addo Shoot\u00ading<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coali\u00adtion) <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/reactiongifs\/comments\/4o2q8w\/mrw_when_the_orlando_shooter_was_a_gay\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brief com\u00admen\u00adtary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on how con\u00adfound\u00ading the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is (red\u00addit): I am not sure&nbsp;all these claims are con\u00adfirmed. Still \u2014 wow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/06\/16\/anderson-coopers-orlando-ranting-is-bad-for-america\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ander\u00adson Cooper\u2019s Orlan\u00addo Rant\u00adi\u00adng Is Bad For Amer\u00adi\u00adca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mol\u00adlie Hem\u00ading\u00adway, The Fed\u00ader\u00adal\u00adist): one of the most sur\u00adre\u00adal things for me is that many&nbsp;peo\u00adple are blam\u00ading Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty for the actions of a Mus\u00adlim shoot\u00ader. This is def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly not the most impor\u00adtant angle to the sto\u00adry, but it is worth con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2012\/12\/15\/a-history-of-the-second-amendment-in-two-paintings\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A His\u00adto\u00adry of the Sec\u00adond Amend\u00adment in Two Paint\u00adings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ezra Klein, Wonkblog): In the wake of Orlan\u00addo, a lot of peo\u00adple are talk\u00ading about guns. This brief arti\u00adcle from a few years ago is still one of the most insight\u00adful things I\u2019ve read about firearms in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. The Yale pro\u00adfes\u00adsor inter\u00adviewed, Dr. Amar, also wrote a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2008\/03\/putting_the_second_amendment_second.single.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">length\u00adi\u00ader arti\u00adcle about this for Slate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hand\u00adful of facts which tak\u00aden togeth\u00ader make both sides uncom\u00adfort\u00adable: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/06\/fbi-homicide-data-by-weapon.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FBI homi\u00adcide data by weapon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, &nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/hate-crimes-against-lgbt-people-are-sadly-common\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vio\u00adlence against gay peo\u00adple is com\u00admon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/06\/17\/the-history-of-lgbt-gun-rights-litigation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guns deter vio\u00adlence against gay peo\u00adple<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/2\/29\/11120184\/gun-control-study-international-evidence\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some gun con\u00adtrol laws do seem to reduce gun deaths<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/10\/03\/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">civil\u00adians with guns some\u00adtimes stop mass shoot\u00adings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the lead\u00ading caus\u00ades of gun deaths are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sui\u00adcide fol\u00adlowed by homi\u00adcide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/investigative\/2015\/12\/26\/a-year-of-reckoning-police-fatally-shoot-nearly-1000\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">police shoot\u00adings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">acci\u00adden\u00adtal shoot\u00adings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> com\u00ading in way behind (shock\u00ading\u00adly far behind if you extrap\u00ado\u00adlate from what you see on the news). <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two come\u00addi\u00adans take oppo\u00adsite views. Both are vul\u00adgar, hilar\u00adi\u00adous, and infor\u00adma\u00adtive \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x9iYvyffAh4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill Burr buys a shot\u00adgun<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim Jef\u00adfries on why Amer\u00adi\u00adcans are nuts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See also the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/05\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-48\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal debate about guns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I fea\u00adtured in vol\u00adume&nbsp;48.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/neutralnews\/comments\/4o2wwh\/wh_no_plans_to_reverse_blood_donation_ban_for_gay\/d497721\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why there is a \u201cgay ban\u201d on blood dona\u00adtions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (red\u00addit): also some\u00adthing peo\u00adple are talk\u00ading about since Orlan\u00addo. This is a very sim\u00adple expla\u00adna\u00adtion. The com\u00adments are&nbsp;infor\u00adma\u00adtive. I find it par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading that describ\u00ading the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion accu\u00adrate\u00adly prac\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly forces a&nbsp;focus on behav\u00adior and not ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adtion. The fact-dri\u00adven expla\u00adna\u00adtion winds up fram\u00ading things sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly to the way evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals talk when dis\u00adcussing LGBT issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2016\/06\/epic-correction-of-the-decade.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epic Cor\u00adrec\u00adtion of the Decade<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Steven Hay\u00adward, Pow\u00ader\u00adline): the authors of a wide\u00adly-report\u00aded study about per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty types and polit\u00adi\u00adcal affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtions acci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly cod\u00aded their data back\u00adwards. Their real results are the lit\u00ader\u00adal oppo\u00adsite of what you remem\u00adber see\u00ading in the news. Regard\u00adless of your polit\u00adi\u00adcal propen\u00adsi\u00adties, this is kin\u00adda hilar\u00adi\u00adous. More at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/06\/07\/conservative-political-beliefs-not-linked-to-psychotic-traits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retrac\u00adtion\u00adWatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/15\/11925792\/school-condoms-teen-births\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Study: schools that give away con\u00addoms see more teen births, not few\u00ader<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sarah Kliff, Vox): \u201cA new research paper sug\u00adgests that [giv\u00ading&nbsp;away con\u00addoms] may have back\u00adfired. It finds that access to con\u00addoms in school led to a 10 per\u00adcent increase in teen births.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chesterton.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/15\/the-sphinx-was-disappointed-in-them\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sphinx Was Dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00aded In Them<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (G.K. Chester\u00adton): \u201cNow the mis\u00adtake of crit\u00adics is not that they crit\u00adi\u00adcise the world; it is that they nev\u00ader crit\u00adi\u00adcise them\u00adselves. They com\u00adpare the alien with the ide\u00adal; but they do not at the same time com\u00adpare them\u00adselves with the ide\u00adal; rather they iden\u00adti\u00adfy them\u00adselves with the ide\u00adal.\u201d Chester\u00adton was one of the most impor\u00adtant Chris\u00adt\u00adian intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals of the 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry. This almost became the quote of the week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amus\u00ading:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/radicalized-christians-praying-orlando\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nation\u2019s Rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adized Chris\u00adtians Pray\u00ading For Orlan\u00addo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=4142\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Final exam dream<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SMBC): in hon\u00ador of all our grad\u00adu\u00adates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues, with a pref\u00ader\u00adence for con\u00adtent from aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics and influ\u00aden\u00adtial voic\u00ades. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. A QUOTE&nbsp;I COULDN\u2019T GET OUT OF MY HEAD \u201cI expect to die in bed, my suc\u00adces\u00adsor will die in prison and his \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-54\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 54\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[144,113,117],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-guns","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-142","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}