{"id":4477,"date":"2017-05-19T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2017-05-19T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T03:15:11","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/05\/19\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-101","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. The Curi\u00adous Rise Of The \u2018White Left\u201d As A Chi\u00adnese Inter\u00adnet Insult<\/a> (Chenchen Zhang, Open Democ\u00adra\u00adcy): \u201cIf you look at any thread about Trump, Islam or immi\u00adgra\u00adtion on a Chi\u00adnese social media plat\u00adform these days, it\u2019s impos\u00adsi\u00adble to avoid encoun\u00adter\u00ading the term baizuo (\u00e7\u2122\u00bd\u00e5\u00b7\u00a6)<\/i>, or lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly, the \u2018white left\u2019.\u2026 Crit\u00adi\u00adcisms of the \u2018white left\u2019 against the back\u00adground of the Euro\u00adpean refugee cri\u00adsis fit espe\u00adcial\u00adly well with the \u2018ris\u00ading Chi\u00adna\u2019 ver\u00adsus \u2018Europe in decline\u2019 nar\u00adra\u00adtive.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The True Heart\u00adbreak Of Read\u00ading The Bible<\/span><\/a> (Rebec\u00adca McLaugh\u00adlin, Ver\u00adi\u00adtas): \u201cWhen we humans make metaphors, we\u2019re notic\u00ading con\u00adnec\u00adtions.  Love is a sick\u00adness. Life is a marathon. Par\u00adents can be heli\u00adcopters.  But if the mes\u00adsage of the Bible is true \u2013 if there <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> a God who cre\u00adat\u00aded the uni\u00adverse  \u2013 then bib\u00adli\u00adcal metaphors are dif\u00adfer\u00adent. God did not notice how human fathers love their chil\u00addren and decide to call him\u00adself our Father (e.g.<\/span> Isa\u00adiah 63:16<\/span>,<\/span> Matthew 6:9<\/span>).  Rather, God cre\u00adat\u00aded father\u00adhood, so that the best of human fathers could give us some small glimpse of how he loves us.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Beau\u00adty sleep is a real thing, research shows<\/span><\/a> (Michelle Roberts, BBC): \u201c<\/span>Beau\u00adty sleep is a real thing, accord\u00ading to researchers who have shown that peo\u00adple who miss out on sleep do appear less attrac\u00adtive to oth\u00aders. A cou\u00adple of bad nights is enough to make a per\u00adson look \u201csig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly\u201d more ugly, their sleep exper\u00adi\u00adments sug\u00adgest.\u201d Bad news for Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents.<\/li>\n
  4. Way More Amer\u00adi\u00adcans May Be Athe\u00adists Than We Thought<\/span><\/a> (Daniel Cox, Five Thir\u00adty Eight): I sus\u00adpect that even the high\u00adest esti\u00admate in the arti\u00adcle is low\u00ader than what many at Stan\u00adford assume.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The Dam\u00adage We Would Do To Each Oth\u00ader If We Had \u201cThe Expla\u00adna\u00adtion\u201d<\/span><\/a>  (Richard Beck, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cImag\u00adine, if you will, that the Bible gave us an expla\u00adna\u00adtion for why there is so much pain and suf\u00adfer\u00ading in the world. Imag\u00adine that the Bible gave us \u2018The Expla\u00adna\u00adtion\u2019 in a spe\u00adcif\u00adic text, some\u00adthing we could eas\u00adi\u00adly quote and share\u2026. Then imag\u00adine how The Expla\u00adna\u00adtion would be used.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. What Makes A Par\u00adent?<\/span><\/a> (Ian Park\u00ader, New York\u00ader): \u201c\u2026at the end she stood to make a skep\u00adti\u00adcal point or two. In her view, the speak\u00aders had under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admat\u00aded the legal con\u00adse\u00adquences of mak\u00ading a per\u00adson a par\u00adent. The panel\u2019s chair, a judge, asked Rabin to stop lec\u00adtur\u00ading the room. It was a pecu\u00adliar moment. Rabin\u2014who is gay, and a par\u00adent, and who has no argu\u00adment with Barone\u2019s vic\u00adto\u00adry, and who is admired for her own chal\u00adlenge to Ali\u00adson D., in 2010\u2014seemed to have been cast as a reac\u00adtionary, intrud\u00ading on a cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion.\u201d This is a long, fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading piece which (in my view but not the author\u2019s) high\u00adlights some of the neg\u00ada\u00adtive con\u00adse\u00adquences of the LGBT rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion in soci\u00adety. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n