{"id":5985,"date":"2020-05-01T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2020-05-01T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T03:20:00","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/05\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-248","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 248"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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 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>     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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m a lit\u00adtle hap\u00adpy because the num\u00adber 248 seems cool to me. If I ever reach 1248 I\u2019ll think it\u2019s even cool\u00ader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/religious-liberty-and-the-common-good\">Reli\u00adgious Lib\u00ader\u00adty and the Com\u00admon Good<\/a> (Nation\u00adal Affairs, William Haun): \u201cMany of today\u2019s pro\u00adgres\u00adsives, con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives, and lib\u00ader\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adans [can\u00adnot] explain why reli\u00adgion <em>in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar<\/em> and reli\u00adgious exer\u00adcise <em>in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar<\/em> should shape the com\u00admon good, even when they go against the grain of sec\u00adu\u00adlar visions adopt\u00aded in law.\u201d This is prob\u00ada\u00adbly the most impor\u00adtant link I\u2019ve shared in quite a while. Not light read\u00ading but worth\u00adwhile. The author is a lawyer for the Beck\u00adet Fund.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/outreachmagazine.com\/interviews\/42227-erwin-mcmanus-the-peaceable-warrior-part-1.html\">Erwin McManus: The Peace\u00adable War\u00adrior<\/a> (Paul J. Pas\u00adtor, Out\u00adreach Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cI talked to some\u00adone last Sun\u00adday who said, \u2018I\u2019m here because some\u00adbody invit\u00aded me. I didn\u2019t want to come.\u2019 [Laughs] She actu\u00adal\u00adly said, \u2018I\u2019m mean, jad\u00aded and cyn\u00adi\u00adcal. I don\u2019t believe in God or reli\u00adgion. I think it\u2019s all a sham.\u2019 I said, \u2018You\u2019re real\u00adly dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00aded, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 \u2018Why?\u2019 \u2018Because you like us,\u2019 I said. \u2018Yeah,\u2019 she said, \u2018I don\u2019t know what to do with that.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d (the excerpt is actu\u00adal\u00adly from <a href=\"https:\/\/outreachmagazine.com\/interviews\/42228-erwin-mcmanus-becoming-fully-human-part-2.html\">part 2 of the inter\u00adview<\/a> and the sto\u00adry gets even bet\u00adter). I only stum\u00adbled upon this slight\u00adly old\u00ader arti\u00adcle because it won a Mag\u00adgie award for <a href=\"http:\/\/maggieawards.com\/68th-annual-maggie-awards-winners-revealed\/\">best inter\u00adview of 2019<\/a>.<\/li><li>Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus News &amp; Per\u00adspec\u00adtives\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/comparing-covid-19-deaths-to-flu-deaths-is-like-comparing-apples-to-oranges\">Com\u00adpar\u00ading COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Com\u00adpar\u00ading Apples to Oranges<\/a> (Jere\u00admy Samuel Faust, Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Amer\u00adi\u00adcan): \u201cWhen reports about the nov\u00adel coro\u00adn\u00adavirus SARS-CoV\u00ad\u20112 began cir\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00ading ear\u00adli\u00ader this year and ques\u00adtions were being raised about how the ill\u00adness it caus\u00ades, COVID-19, com\u00adpared to the flu, it occurred to me that, in four years of emer\u00adgency med\u00adi\u00adcine res\u00adi\u00adden\u00adcy and over three and a half years as an attend\u00ading physi\u00adcian, I had almost nev\u00ader seen any\u00adone die of the flu. I could only remem\u00adber one trag\u00adic pedi\u00adatric case.\u201d The author is an instruc\u00adtor at Har\u00advard Med\u00adical School. Fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/different-perspective-telephoto-lens-vs-wide-angle-philip-davali-olafur-steinar-ry\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=organic\">Pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Takes Pics Of Peo\u00adple In Pub\u00adlic From 2 Per\u00adspec\u00adtives And It Shows How Eas\u00adi\u00adly The Media Can Manip\u00adu\u00adlate Real\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Liu\u00adci\u00adja Ado\u00admaite and Denis Tymulis, Bored Pan\u00adda): \u201c\u2018The prox\u00adim\u00adi\u00adty of peo\u00adple has wide\u00adly been debat\u00aded in Den\u00admark in the past weeks. Dan\u00adish politi\u00adcians and author\u00adi\u00adties have fre\u00adquent\u00adly referred to images which they believed to show mem\u00adbers of the pub\u00adlic behav\u00ading in dis\u00adagree\u00adment with the gen\u00ader\u00adal guide\u00adlines.\u2019 As a nation\u00adal pho\u00adto news agency that sup\u00adplies visu\u00adal cov\u00ader\u00adage on the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus pan\u00addem\u00adic, \u2018we became aware that our con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion could be mis\u00adread.\u2019\u201d A pic\u00adture is worth 1000 words, not all of them hon\u00adest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/05\/04\/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not\">Seattle\u2019s Lead\u00aders Let Sci\u00aden\u00adtists Take the Lead. New York\u2019s Did Not<\/a> (Charles Duhigg \u201aNew York\u00ader): \u201cCon\u00adstan\u00adtine told me, \u2018Jeff rec\u00adog\u00adnized what he was ask\u00ading for was imprac\u00adti\u00adcal. He said if we advised social dis\u00adtanc\u00ading right away there would be zero accep\u00adtance. And so the ques\u00adtion was: What can we say <em>today <\/em>so that peo\u00adple will be ready to hear what we need to say <em>tomor\u00adrow<\/em>?\u2019 In e\u2011mails and phone calls, the men began play\u00ading a game: What was the most extreme advice they could give that peo\u00adple wouldn\u2019t scoff at? Con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading what would like\u00adly be hap\u00adpen\u00ading four days from then, what would they regret not hav\u00ading said?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2020\/04\/27\/pastor-landon-spradlin-coronavirus-death\/\">A Vir\u00adginia preach\u00ader believed \u2018God can heal any\u00adthing.\u2019 Then he caught coro\u00adn\u00adavirus.<\/a> (Peter Jami\u00adson, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cIn the days after Lan\u00addon suc\u00adcumbed to covid-19, his death brought words of sym\u00adpa\u00adthy from peo\u00adple who knew him \u2014 and jeers from peo\u00adple who didn\u2019t. The New York Post, the Dai\u00adly Mail and an athe\u00adist blog pub\u00adlished arti\u00adcles seiz\u00ading on his March 13 Face\u00adbook post. Lan\u00addon was posthu\u00admous\u00adly attacked as a vic\u00adtim of mis\u00adguid\u00aded beliefs \u2014 in the assur\u00adances of his pres\u00adi\u00addent and the pro\u00adtec\u00adtions of his God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2020\/04\/62837\/\">Infor\u00adma\u00adtion Can Do What Lock\u00addowns Can\u2019t<\/a> (Lyman Stone, The Pub\u00adlic Dis\u00adcourse): \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcans, like peo\u00adple in almost every coun\u00adtry, were quick\u00ader to under\u00adstand the risks than most of the peo\u00adple who gov\u00adern us. Alas, had our lead\u00aders tak\u00aden the threat seri\u00adous\u00adly a month ear\u00adli\u00ader, and com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded the risks to Amer\u00adi\u00adcans more explic\u00adit\u00adly, COVID could have been a flash in the pan. Instead, many thou\u00adsands of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans are going to die unnec\u00ades\u00adsary deaths.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/why-did-youtube-remove-the-doctors-briefing\/\">Why Did YouTube Remove The Doc\u00adtors\u2019 Brief\u00ading?<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201c\u2026I absolute\u00adly believe that it\u2019s wrong to cen\u00adsor what qual\u00adi\u00adfied med\u00adical pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adals (read: not quacks) are say\u00ading about the cri\u00adsis, which is so unique in our expe\u00adri\u00adence as a nation. A strong lock\u00addown was nec\u00ades\u00adsary at first. If there is good med\u00adical evi\u00addence that the lock\u00addown, and relat\u00aded pub\u00adlic health strate\u00adgies, might be doing more harm that good at this date, then let\u2019s hear that argu\u00adment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/temporary-coronavirus-censorship\">The Inevitable Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Cen\u00adsor\u00adship Cri\u00adsis is Here<\/a> (Matt Taib\u00adbi, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe peo\u00adple who want to add a cen\u00adsor\u00adship regime to a health cri\u00adsis are more dan\u00adger\u00adous and more stu\u00adpid by leaps and bounds than a pres\u00adi\u00addent who tells peo\u00adple to inject dis\u00adin\u00adfec\u00adtant. It\u2019s aston\u00adish\u00ading that they don\u2019t see this.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/2020\/04\/23\/covid-19-borders-insulin\/\">With US Bor\u00adders Closed by Covid-19, How Will I Afford Insulin?<\/a> (James Stout, Undark): \u201cDur\u00ading months when I teach as an adjunct pro\u00adfes\u00adsor and am cov\u00adered by my university\u2019s insur\u00adance plan, I stock up as much insulin as I can. Dur\u00ading the remain\u00adder of the year, I do what thou\u00adsands of oth\u00aders do: I cross the bor\u00adder to Mex\u00adi\u00adco where, just 12 miles from my house in San Diego, I can buy the same med\u00adi\u00adcine at one-tenth of the price.\u201d Sent my way by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-05-01\/ufo-sightings-they-deserve-to-be-taken-more-seriously?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=view&amp;utm_mediu\">UFO Sight\u00adings: They Deserve to Be Tak\u00aden More Seri\u00adous\u00adly<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg): \u201cThe offi\u00adcial release of some pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly leaked UFO videos tak\u00aden by U.S. navy pilots has sparked renewed inter\u00adest in the big\u00adger ques\u00adtions. For sure those fly\u00ading objects are uniden\u00adti\u00adfied, but how much atten\u00adtion should we earth\u00adlings devote to this issue? I am struck by the con\u00adtrast between those who see this as an impor\u00adtant ques\u00adtion and those who think the whole thing will turn out to be an error or some kind of opti\u00adcal illu\u00adsion.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/5dmnp3\/ufo-videos-only-scratch-the-surface-of-what-the-pentagon-knows-harry-reid-says\">UFO Videos \u2018Only Scratch the Sur\u00adface\u2019 of What the Pen\u00adta\u00adgon Knows, Har\u00adry Reid Says<\/a>&nbsp;(Jason Koe\u00adbler, Vice): \u201cReid, who was a sen\u00ada\u00adtor for 30 years and was Sen\u00adate major\u00adi\u00adty leader from 2007 to 2015, helped to cre\u00adate a so-called \u2018black bud\u00adget\u2019 for the Pentagon\u2019s UFO pro\u00adgram, called the Advanced Aero\u00adspace Threat Iden\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion Pro\u00adgram\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This is some\u00adthing <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?s=UFO\">I\u2019ve shared arti\u00adcles about before<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>On the Chi\u00adnese Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty:&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/25\/opinion\/china-hong-kong-coronavirus.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">Chi\u00adna Has a Post-Pan\u00addem\u00adic Dream for Hong Kong<\/a> (Yi-Zheng Lian, New York Times): \u201cBut the recent devel\u00adop\u00adments actu\u00adal\u00adly are remark\u00adable. For the first time, the tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal pan-dems are being treat\u00aded as ene\u00admies just like the sep\u00ada\u00adratists. And for the first time, Bei\u00adjing is vio\u00adlat\u00ading the very let\u00adter of the Basic Law, which it itself has pro\u00admul\u00adgat\u00aded; the Chi\u00adnese gov\u00adern\u00adment typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly only con\u00adtorts the law and dis\u00adtorts its spir\u00adit.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2020\/4\/23\/harvard-china-scrutiny\/#.XqWvr_Pq_5k.twitter\">The End of the Har\u00advard Cen\u00adtu\u00adry<\/a> (Mat\u00adteo N. Wong, Har\u00advard Crim\u00adson): \u201cChi\u00adnese offi\u00adcials reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly deliv\u00ader com\u00adplaints to uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties host\u00ading events on sen\u00adsi\u00adtive issues and even offer schol\u00adars mon\u00adey to mod\u00adi\u00adfy research crit\u00adi\u00adcal of Chi\u00adna.\u2026 giv\u00aden Harvard\u2019s sta\u00adtus in the inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic hier\u00adar\u00adchy, Chi\u00adnese author\u00adi\u00adties may be par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00aded in the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. \u2018We\u2019ve had Chi\u00adnese cit\u00adi\u00adzens at Har\u00advard, who are clear\u00adly doing the bid\u00adding of the Chi\u00adnese state, com\u00ading and sit\u00adting in on talks and tak\u00ading notes and report\u00ading back,\u2019 Per\u00adry says. She sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly sus\u00adpects Chi\u00adnese cit\u00adi\u00adzens of report\u00ading on vis\u00adit\u00ading Chi\u00adnese schol\u00adars\u2019 activ\u00adi\u00adties.\u201d This arti\u00adcle is quite long but fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/global-opinions\/mitt-romney-covid-19-has-exposed-chinas-utter-dishonesty\/2020\/04\/23\/30859476-8569-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_ideas\">Amer\u00adi\u00adca is awak\u00aden\u00ading to Chi\u00adna. This is a clar\u00adi\u00adon call to seize the moment.<\/a> (Mitt Rom\u00adney, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cChina\u2019s alarm\u00ading mil\u00adi\u00adtary build-up is not wide\u00adly dis\u00adcussed out\u00adside clas\u00adsi\u00adfied set\u00adtings, but Amer\u00adi\u00adcans should not take com\u00adfort in our dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate\u00adly large mil\u00adi\u00adtary bud\u00adget. The gov\u00adern\u00adment of Pres\u00adi\u00addent Xi Jin\u00adping doesn\u2019t report its actu\u00adal defense spend\u00ading. An apples-to-apples analy\u00adsis demon\u00adstrates that China\u2019s annu\u00adal pro\u00adcure\u00adment of mil\u00adi\u00adtary hard\u00adware is near\u00adly iden\u00adti\u00adcal to ours; but because our mil\u00adi\u00adtary has mis\u00adsions around the world, this means that in the Pacif\u00adic, where Chi\u00adna con\u00adcen\u00adtrates its fire\u00adpow\u00ader, it will have mil\u00adi\u00adtary supe\u00adri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/04\/21\/i-was-arrested-hong-kong-its-part-chinas-larger-plan\/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_ideas\">I was arrest\u00aded in Hong Kong. It\u2019s part of China\u2019s larg\u00ader plan.<\/a>(Mar\u00adtin C. M. Lee , Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cHong Kong peo\u00adple now face two plagues from Chi\u00adna: the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus and attacks on our most basic human rights. We can all hope a vac\u00adcine is soon devel\u00adoped for the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus. But once Hong Kong\u2019s human rights and rule of law are rolled back, the fatal virus of author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan rule will be here to stay.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/04\/29\/my-ojibwe-father-drew-land-olakes-maiden-she-was-never-stereotype\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most\">My Native Amer\u00adi\u00adcan father drew the Land O\u2019Lakes maid\u00aden. She was nev\u00ader a stereo\u00adtype.<\/a> (Robert Des\u00adJar\u00adlait, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cMia\u2019s van\u00adish\u00ading has prompt\u00aded a social media meme: \u2018They Got Rid of The Indi\u00adan and Kept the Land.\u2019 That isn\u2019t too far from the truth. Mia, the stereo\u00adtype that wasn\u2019t, leaves behind a land\u00adscape void\u00aded of iden\u00adti\u00adty and his\u00adto\u00adry. For those of us who are Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Indi\u00adan, it\u2019s a his\u00adto\u00adry that is all too famil\u00adiar.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/05\/andrew-sullivan-by-bidens-own-standards-he-is-guilty.html\">By Biden\u2019s Own Stan\u00addards, He Is Guilty As Charged<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, New York Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cOn Friday\u2019s <em>Morn\u00ading Joe<\/em>, Biden laid out a sim\u00adple process for judg\u00ading him: Lis\u00adten respect\u00adful\u00adly to Tara Reade, and then check for facts that prove or dis\u00adprove her spe\u00adcif\u00adic claim. The objec\u00adtive truth, Biden argued, is what mat\u00adters. I agree with him. But this was emphat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly not the stan\u00addard Biden favored when judg\u00ading men in col\u00adlege. If Biden were a stu\u00addent, under Biden rules, Reade could file a claim of assault, and Biden would have no right to know the specifics, the evi\u00addence pro\u00advid\u00aded, who was charg\u00ading him, who was a wit\u00adness, and no right to ques\u00adtion the accuser.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>This arti\u00adcle is about col\u00adlege Title IX pro\u00adceed\u00adings using Tara Reade and Joe Biden as illus\u00adtra\u00adtions. If its inclu\u00adsion comes off as par\u00adti\u00adsan, bear in mind that the author intends to vote for Biden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GQ08UJ8QNtg&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Dol\u00adphins swim in bio\u00adlu\u00admi\u00adnes\u00adcent waves in New\u00adport Beach<\/a> (YouTube): three min\u00adutes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/obviously-confused-amash-runs-for-president-even-though-we-already-have-two-choices\">Obvi\u00adous\u00adly Con\u00adfused Amash Runs For Pres\u00adi\u00addent Even Though We Already Have Two Choic\u00ades<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/04\/28\">Unusu\u00adal\u00adly Heavy Call Vol\u00adumes<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/latest-cdc-computer-modeling-predicts-between-0-and-126-billion-new-covid-19-deaths-by-summer\">Lat\u00adest Com\u00adput\u00ader Mod\u00adel Pre\u00addicts Between 0 And 12.6 Bil\u00adlion New COVID-19 Deaths By Sum\u00admer<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aoz7Q5OXIHY\">Steve Har\u00advey Gets Tie Stolen by Pick\u00adpock\u00adet Bob Arno<\/a> (Steve Har\u00advey Show, YouTube): sev\u00aden min\u00adutes, rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have the provoca\u00adtive read <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/In-Defense-of-Flogging\/127208\/?sid=at\">In Defense of Flog\u00adging<\/a> (Peter Moskos, Chron\u00adi\u00adcle of High\u00ader Edu\u00adca\u00adtion) \u2014 the author is a for\u00admer police offi\u00adcer and now a crim\u00adi\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgist at the City Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of New York. This one was shared back before I start\u00aded send\u00ading these emails in a blog post called <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/05\/05\/punishment\">Pun\u00adish\u00adment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, 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.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best expla\u00adna\u00adtions of reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty I have read, along with arti\u00adcles about the pan\u00addem\u00adic, UFOs, the Chi\u00adnese Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty, and a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview with a pas\u00adtor.<\/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":"One of the best explanations of religious liberty I have read, along with articles about the pandemic, UFOs, the Chinese Communist Party, and a fascinating interview with a pastor.","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":[125,262,275,172,138,147],"class_list":["post-5985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-china","tag-hong-kong","tag-pandemic","tag-racism","tag-religious-freedom","tag-sexual-assault"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1yx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985","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=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}