{"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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;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;\">Fractured West<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Michael Totten, City Journal): \u201c\u2026I interviewed a gay Native American who sports an \u2018I Stand with Standing Rock\u2019 T\u2011shirt on his Facebook page. You might think that a gay Native American must have voted for Hillary Clinton, but you would be wrong.\u201d This is a tremendously fascinating article about Oregon politics.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking of Oregon: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/01\/collection-action-kills-innovation.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collective Action Kills Innovation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cMost of the rest of the America\u2013where people pump their own gas everyday without a second thought\u2013is having 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 barbershop without a license.\u201d&nbsp;<\/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 Hardest Workers Don\u2019t Do the Best Work <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Jerry Useem, Bloomberg View): \u201cIt turned out that some people who did less just accomplished less. But the top performers also did less, and seemed to have a knack for figuring out how to sidestep inessential tasks to obsess on a few important 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;\">Reality Has A Surprising Amount of Detail <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(John Salvatier, personal blog): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The important details you haven\u2019t noticed are invisible to you, and the details you <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> noticed seem completely obvious and you see right through them. This all makes makes it difficult to imagine how you could be missing something important.\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 incarceration on the war on drugs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (German Lopez, Vox): \u201cIt\u2019s not drug offenses that are driving mass incarceration, but violent ones. It\u2019s not the federal government that\u2019s behind mass incarceration, but a whole host of prison systems down to the local and state level. It\u2019s not solely police and lawmakers leading to more incarceration and lengthy prison sentences, but prosecutors who are by and large out of the political spotlight.\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 Silicon Valley\u2019s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Emily Chang, Vanity Fair): \u201cRich men expecting casual sexual access to women is anything but a new paradigm. But many of the A\u2011listers in Silicon Valley have something unique in common: a lonely adolescence devoid of contact with the opposite 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 Taxpayers, Two Definitions of \u2018Progressive\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View): \u201c\u2026liberal analyses of the tax cut emphasize that it generally raises after-tax income more for high earners than for low earners. Conservative analyses tend to point out that lower earners will generally see their tax bills decline by the same percentage that higher earners will (and sometimes will see them drop more). Neither side is distorting the truth. They\u2019re looking at the same thing from different 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 Democracy Hinges On a Single Vote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Stephen Carter, Bloomberg View): \u201c\u2026it turns out that we don\u2019t count votes terribly well. A 2012 study found that although some methods of tabulating ballots are better than others, we can generally expect an error rate of 1 to 2 percent. Although we can\u2019t predict which way the errors will fall, it\u2019s unlikely that they will sum precisely to zero \u2013 in other words, there will always be mistakes. So each time we count, we can expect a different result.\u201d The author is a law professor at&nbsp;Yale.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/01\/08\/making-china-great-again\">Making China Great Again<\/a> (Evan Osnos, The New Yorker): \u201cFor years, China\u2019s startups lagged behind those in Silicon Valley. But there is more parity now. Of the forty-one private companies worldwide that reached \u201cunicorn\u201d status in 2017\u2014meaning they had valuations of a billion dollars or more\u2014fifteen are Chinese and seventeen are American.\u201d Also, I found this bit very amusing: \u201cIn the city of Shenzhen, the local government uses facial recognition to deter jaywalkers. (At busy intersections, it posts their names and I.D. pictures on a screen at the roadside.) In Beijing, the government uses facial-recognition machines in public rest rooms to stop people from stealing toilet paper; it limits users to sixty centimetres within a nine-minute period.\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 parallel park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (imgur): a very cool animation.<\/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 Excited To Be Read For Whole First Week Of January Again<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Babylon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-bravely-abandons-unpopular-christian-belief-affirm-popular-cultural-belief\/\">Man Bravely Abandons Unpopular Christian Belief To Affirm Extremely Popular Cultural Belief<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/chesterton\">Chesterton<\/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 Miserably<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2018\/01\/04\">Punting<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. 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: \u201cThinking can not be done corporately. Nations and committees can\u2019t think. That is not only because they have no brains, but because they have no selves, no centers, no souls, if you like. Millions and millions of persons may hold the same thought, or conviction or suspicion, but each and every person of those millions 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;\">volume 2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it).<\/p>\n<p>Also, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about&nbsp;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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way. Things Glen Found Interesting Fractured West (Michael Totten, City Journal): \u201c\u2026I interviewed a gay Native American who sports an \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/01\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}