{"id":4820,"date":"2018-01-05T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T04:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T04:12:58","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/01\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-133","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/fractured-west-15611.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frac\u00adtured West<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Michael Tot\u00adten, City Jour\u00adnal): \u201c\u2026I inter\u00adviewed a gay Native Amer\u00adi\u00adcan who sports an \u2018I Stand with Stand\u00ading Rock\u2019 T\u2011shirt on his Face\u00adbook page. You might think that a gay Native Amer\u00adi\u00adcan must have vot\u00aded for Hillary Clin\u00adton, but you would be wrong.\u201d This is a tremen\u00addous\u00adly fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading arti\u00adcle about Ore\u00adgon pol\u00adi\u00adtics. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speak\u00ading of Ore\u00adgon: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/01\/collection-action-kills-innovation.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Col\u00adlec\u00adtive Action Kills Inno\u00adva\u00adtion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cMost of the rest of the America\u2013where peo\u00adple pump their own gas every\u00adday with\u00adout a sec\u00adond thought\u2013is hav\u00ading a good laugh at Oregon\u2019s expense. But I am not here to laugh because in every state but one where you can pump your own gas you can\u2019t open a bar\u00adber\u00adshop with\u00adout a license.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-01-02\/the-hardest-workers-don-t-do-the-best-work?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=180102&amp;utm_campaign=sharetheview\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hard\u00adest Work\u00aders Don\u2019t Do the Best Work <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Jer\u00adry Useem, Bloomberg View): \u201cIt turned out that some peo\u00adple who did less just accom\u00adplished less. But the top per\u00adform\u00aders also did less, and seemed to have a knack for fig\u00adur\u00ading out how to side\u00adstep inessen\u00adtial tasks to obsess on a few impor\u00adtant things.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/johnsalvatier.org\/blog\/2017\/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real\u00adi\u00adty Has A Sur\u00adpris\u00ading Amount of Detail <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(John Sal\u00advati\u00ader, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impor\u00adtant details you haven\u2019t noticed are invis\u00adi\u00adble to you, and the details you <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> noticed seem com\u00adplete\u00adly obvi\u00adous and you see right through them. This all makes makes it dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to imag\u00adine how you could be miss\u00ading some\u00adthing impor\u00adtant.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/5\/30\/15591700\/mass-incarceration-john-pfaff-locked-in\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why you can\u2019t blame mass incar\u00adcer\u00ada\u00adtion on the war on drugs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ger\u00adman Lopez, Vox): \u201cIt\u2019s not drug offens\u00ades that are dri\u00adving mass incar\u00adcer\u00ada\u00adtion, but vio\u00adlent ones. It\u2019s not the fed\u00ader\u00adal gov\u00adern\u00adment that\u2019s behind mass incar\u00adcer\u00ada\u00adtion, but a whole host of prison sys\u00adtems down to the local and state lev\u00adel. It\u2019s not sole\u00adly police and law\u00admak\u00aders lead\u00ading to more incar\u00adcer\u00ada\u00adtion and lengthy prison sen\u00adtences, but pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtors who are by and large out of the polit\u00adi\u00adcal spot\u00adlight.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/01\/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum?mbid=synd_digg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOh My God, This Is So F\u2014ed Up\u201d: Inside Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Valley\u2019s Secre\u00adtive, Orgias\u00adtic Dark Side<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Emi\u00adly Chang, Van\u00adi\u00adty Fair): \u201cRich men expect\u00ading casu\u00adal sex\u00adu\u00adal access to women is any\u00adthing but a new par\u00ada\u00addigm. But many of the A\u2011listers in Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley have some\u00adthing unique in com\u00admon: a lone\u00adly ado\u00adles\u00adcence devoid of con\u00adtact with the oppo\u00adsite sex.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-12-20\/two-taxpayers-two-definitions-of-progressive\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Tax\u00adpay\u00aders, Two Def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtions of \u2018Pro\u00adgres\u00adsive\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ramesh Pon\u00adnu\u00adru, Bloomberg View): \u201c\u2026lib\u00ader\u00adal analy\u00adses of the tax cut empha\u00adsize that it gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly rais\u00ades after-tax income more for high earn\u00aders than for low earn\u00aders. Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive analy\u00adses tend to point out that low\u00ader earn\u00aders will gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly see their tax bills decline by the same per\u00adcent\u00adage that high\u00ader earn\u00aders will (and some\u00adtimes will see them drop more). Nei\u00adther side is dis\u00adtort\u00ading the truth. They\u2019re look\u00ading at the same thing from dif\u00adfer\u00adent angles.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-12-22\/when-democracy-hinges-on-a-single-vote\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Democ\u00adra\u00adcy Hinges On a Sin\u00adgle Vote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Stephen Carter, Bloomberg View): \u201c\u2026it turns out that we don\u2019t count votes ter\u00adri\u00adbly well. A 2012 study found that although some meth\u00adods of tab\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading bal\u00adlots are bet\u00adter than oth\u00aders, we can gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly expect an error rate of 1 to 2 per\u00adcent. Although we can\u2019t pre\u00addict which way the errors will fall, it\u2019s unlike\u00adly that they will sum pre\u00adcise\u00adly to zero \u2013 in oth\u00ader words, there will always be mis\u00adtakes. So each time we count, we can expect a dif\u00adfer\u00adent result.\u201d The author is a law pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Yale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/01\/08\/making-china-great-again\">Mak\u00ading Chi\u00adna Great Again<\/a> (Evan Osnos, The New York\u00ader): \u201cFor years, China\u2019s star\u00adtups lagged behind those in Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley. But there is more par\u00adi\u00adty now. Of the forty-one pri\u00advate com\u00adpa\u00adnies world\u00adwide that reached \u201cuni\u00adcorn\u201d sta\u00adtus in 2017\u2014meaning they had val\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions of a bil\u00adlion dol\u00adlars or more\u2014fifteen are Chi\u00adnese and sev\u00aden\u00adteen are Amer\u00adi\u00adcan.\u201d Also, I found this bit very amus\u00ading: \u201cIn the city of Shen\u00adzhen, the local gov\u00adern\u00adment uses facial recog\u00adni\u00adtion to deter jay\u00adwalk\u00aders. (At busy inter\u00adsec\u00adtions, it posts their names and I.D. pic\u00adtures on a screen at the road\u00adside.) In Bei\u00adjing, the gov\u00adern\u00adment uses facial-recog\u00adni\u00adtion machines in pub\u00adlic rest rooms to stop peo\u00adple from steal\u00ading toi\u00adlet paper; it lim\u00adits users to six\u00adty cen\u00adtime\u00adtres with\u00adin a nine-minute peri\u00adod.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/Uf3MGVF\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to par\u00adal\u00adlel park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (imgur): a very cool ani\u00adma\u00adtion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/local-mans-bible-excited-read-whole-first-week-january\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local Man\u2019s Bible Excit\u00aded To Be Read For Whole First Week Of Jan\u00adu\u00adary Again<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-bravely-abandons-unpopular-christian-belief-affirm-popular-cultural-belief\/\">Man Brave\u00adly Aban\u00addons Unpop\u00adu\u00adlar Chris\u00adt\u00adian Belief To Affirm Extreme\u00adly Pop\u00adu\u00adlar Cul\u00adtur\u00adal Belief<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/chesterton\">Chester\u00adton<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-tries-hard-believes-self-fails-miserably\/\">Local Man Tries Hard, Believes In Self, Fails Mis\u00ader\u00adably<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2018\/01\/04\">Punt\u00ading<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sourcetext.com\/the-gift-of-fire-chapter-three\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Land of We All<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire), an essay built on this insight: \u201cThink\u00ading can not be done cor\u00adpo\u00adrate\u00adly. Nations and com\u00admit\u00adtees can\u2019t think. That is not only because they have no brains, but because they have no selves, no cen\u00adters, no souls, if you like. Mil\u00adlions and mil\u00adlions of per\u00adsons may hold the same thought, or con\u00advic\u00adtion or sus\u00adpi\u00adcion, but each and every per\u00adson of those mil\u00adlions must hold it all alone.\u201d (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/06\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Archives at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a>.<\/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. 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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Frac\u00adtured West (Michael Tot\u00adten, City Jour\u00adnal): \u201c\u2026I inter\u00adviewed a gay Native Amer\u00adi\u00adcan who sports \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/01\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-133\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 133\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":"Lots of stuff this week, including an article about Oregon politics showing why a gay Native American voted for Trump.","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":[125,117,199,203,137],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-china","tag-politics","tag-prison","tag-silicon-valley","tag-thinking-clearly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1fK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","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=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}