{"id":5163,"date":"2018-09-07T15:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:55:46","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/09\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-168","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 168"},"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 Most Momen\u00adtous Place?<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cThe old city of Jerusalem is aston\u00adish\u00ading\u00adly small for a city with so many momen\u00adtous places. One can walk from Christianity\u2019s holi\u00adest site to the holi\u00adest site of Judaism, paus\u00ading to look at one of the holi\u00adest sites of Islam, in less time than it takes to walk from my office on the cam\u00adpus of George Mason Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty to the cam\u00adpus Star\u00adbucks.\u201d Short and provoca\u00adtive.<\/li>\n
  2. Aus\u00adtrali\u00ada\u2019s new Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal prime min\u00adis\u00adter: Try to guess how the press is receiv\u00ading him<\/a> (Ira Rifkin, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): \u201c\u2026the new prime min\u00adis\u00adter, Scott Mor\u00adri\u00adson, is an out\u00adspo\u00adken, polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal Chris\u00adt\u00adian. This mix\u00ading of reli\u00adgion and pol\u00adi\u00adtics may be old-hat at this point for Amer\u00adi\u00adcans. But it\u2019s an entire\u00adly new expe\u00adri\u00adence for Aus\u00adtralians.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. My nephew tried to school me on cul\u00adtur\u00adal appro\u00adpri\u00ada\u00adtion. It did\u00adn\u2019t end well.<\/a>(Jack Van\u00adNo\u00adord, Chica\u00adgo Tri\u00adbune): fic\u00adtion\u00adal, amus\u00ading, and makes a seri\u00adous point about glob\u00adal cul\u00adtur\u00adal exchange. \u201cMost weeks, his less-woke friends go out for Taco Tues\u00addays, but not Kyle. No more hum\u00admus. No more bagels. No mo\u2019 pho. Poor Kyle. Liv\u00ading the unap\u00adpro\u00adpri\u00adat\u00aded life is tough busi\u00adness. When\u00adev\u00ader it rains, Kyle gets soaked. No more umbrel\u00adlas for him. Chi\u00adnese. Kyle has stopped binge watch\u00ading \u2018The Walk\u00ading Dead\u2019 once I men\u00adtioned the word for, and the con\u00adcept of, zom\u00adbies were appro\u00adpri\u00adat\u00aded from West Africa. Kyle was tak\u00ading a sum\u00admer math course at the com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty col\u00adlege. But he dropped out. It was just too hard. His home\u00adwork was tak\u00ading all evening. He was doing all his assign\u00adments using Roman numer\u00adals since Ara\u00adbic numer\u00adals are \u2026 well, Ara\u00adbic.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. The Reli\u00adgious Typol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/a> (Pew Research Cen\u00adter): \u201c a new Pew Research Cen\u00adter analy\u00adsis looks at beliefs and behav\u00adiors that cut across many denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions \u2013 impor\u00adtant traits that unite peo\u00adple of dif\u00adfer\u00adent faiths, or that divide peo\u00adple who have the same reli\u00adgious affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion \u2013 pro\u00adduc\u00ading a new and reveal\u00ading clas\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion, or typol\u00ado\u00adgy, of reli\u00adgion in Amer\u00adi\u00adca.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. A Prison That\u2019s Also a Loony Bin<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cA trans\u00adgen\u00adder pris\u00adon\u00ader has admit\u00adted sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly assault\u00ading inmates at a women\u2019s jail. Karen White, 51, who was born male but now iden\u00adti\u00adfies as a woman, has plead\u00aded guilty to two counts of sex\u00adu\u00adal touch\u00ading at New Hall Prison, Wake\u00adfield.\u201d The sto\u00adry is astound\u00ading.<\/li>\n
  6. Bet\u00adter Dead Than Dis\u00adabled?<\/a> (Charles Camosy, Com\u00admon\u00adweal): \u201cpro\u00adlif\u00aders are not imag\u00adin\u00ading things: argu\u00adments in favor of the autonomous moral and legal choice to com\u00admit infan\u00adti\u00adcide are easy to find\u2026. [for exam\u00adple, a] 2012 arti\u00adcle by moral philoso\u00adphers Alber\u00adto Giu\u00adbili\u00adni and Francesca Min\u00ader\u00adva, which appeared in the respect\u00aded Jour\u00adnal of Med\u00adical Ethics<\/em>, was provoca\u00adtive\u00adly titled \u2018After-Birth Abor\u00adtion: Why Should the Baby Live?\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
  7. Diary of a Con\u00adcus\u00adsion: What I Learned About Head Injuries By Hav\u00ading One<\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Lopat\u00adto, The Verge): \u201cTo have your per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty altered by brain trau\u00adma seems to upset peo\u00adple more than hav\u00ading it altered by, for instance, emo\u00adtion\u00adal trau\u00adma. I don\u2019t know why this is! \u2026. If I thought I was my brain, prob\u00ada\u00adbly I would have found the injury more upset\u00adting. But I didn\u2019t and don\u2019t believe that; my self<\/em> is an inter\u00adac\u00adtion between my body and my brain.\u201d This is a year old but I just stum\u00adbled upon it. Super inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n