{"id":6023,"date":"2020-05-08T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:56:43","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/05\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-249","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 249"},"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\" 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>\n\n    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<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.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/04\/13\/a-missionary-on-trial\">A Mis\u00adsion\u00adary on Tri\u00adal<\/a> (Ariel Levy, The New York\u00ader): \u201cAccord\u00ading to a study pub\u00adlished in 2017 in <em>The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Jour\u00adnal for Clin\u00adi\u00adcal Nutri\u00adtion<\/em>, four\u00adteen per cent of chil\u00addren treat\u00aded for severe acute mal\u00adnu\u00adtri\u00adtion at Mula\u00adgo Hospital\u2014Uganda\u2019s best facility\u2014died. The study notes that the over-all mor\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty rate in Africa for chil\u00addren with S.A.M. is between twen\u00adty and twen\u00adty-five per cent. Dur\u00ading the years when Serv\u00ading His Chil\u00addren func\u00adtioned as an in-patient facil\u00adi\u00adty, its rate was eleven per cent.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. If you want to dig deep\u00ader, last Octo\u00adber a Ugan\u00addan tele\u00advi\u00adsion sta\u00adtion did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M1Pe81KIGrY&amp;feature=emb_logo\">a twen\u00adty-minute sto\u00adry<\/a> on this case which also dis\u00adcred\u00adit\u00aded the missionary\u2019s accusers. Proverbs 18:17 wins again.<\/li>\n<li>I see a sim\u00adi\u00adlar dynam\u00adic in some stu\u00addents who are feel\u00ading angst over their faith. Upon con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion, I often learn that they have been told untrue or mis\u00adlead\u00ading things about mis\u00adsions, the his\u00adto\u00adry of the church, and the present sta\u00adtus of the church in the world. Always remem\u00adber that crit\u00adics might have motives beyond sim\u00adply estab\u00adlish\u00ading the truth. That doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t lis\u00adten to them, but it does mean that you don\u2019t treat their com\u00adplaints as axioms. When this reporter flew to Ugan\u00adda and talked to peo\u00adple on the ground she quick\u00adly learned that the inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly-accept\u00aded nar\u00adra\u00adtive was not right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/may\/iraq-christians-erbil-chaldean-university-isis-rasche.html\">Why We Opened a Chris\u00adt\u00adian Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in Iraq Amid ISIS\u2019 Geno\u00adcide<\/a> (Jayson Cas\u00adpar, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThere was an unwrit\u00adten under\u00adstand\u00ading that the Chris\u00adtians would not overt\u00adly pros\u00ade\u00adly\u00adtize and share the gospel, but be indi\u00adrect and not offend sharia law. But after ISIS and the lack of any real response from the Mus\u00adlim world, Arch\u00adbish\u00adop War\u00adda says that this agree\u00adment is now fin\u00adished. That as we go for\u00adward, we will no longer be shy. We are going to pro\u00adclaim the gospel, pro\u00adclaim the teach\u00adings of Christ, and who\u00adev\u00ader comes to us will come\u2026. There may not be many Chris\u00adtians in Iraq. But as an old priest said once to me, \u2018Well, remem\u00adber Christ only had 12, and every\u00adone want\u00aded to kill them, too.\u2019\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/scandal\/exquisite-scandal\">Exquis\u00adite Scan\u00addal<\/a> (Nan\u00adcy Lemann, Lapham\u2019s Quar\u00adter\u00adly): \u201cThe famil\u00adiar the\u00ado\u00adry at the tri\u00adal was that the peo\u00adple of Louisiana would rather be enter\u00adtained than served with ethics. Some would call this a Gal\u00adlic atti\u00adtude, to be blind\u00aded by charm at the expense of integri\u00adty, and indeed the cul\u00adture of Louisiana is his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly French Catholic. And as the Catholics might say, the fall from grace is inevitable, a mys\u00adtery to be endured rather than a prob\u00adlem to be solved. And some in Louisiana would pre\u00adfer a smart crook to an unin\u00adtel\u00adli\u00adgent oppor\u00adtunist masked as a cru\u00adsad\u00ader whose ambi\u00adtion blinds him to his own stu\u00adpid\u00adi\u00adty. Such a one could be just as dan\u00adger\u00adous, if not more so, than a crook.\u201d As some\u00adone born in Louisiana, I very much enjoyed this arti\u00adcle.&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/07\/us\/ahmaud-arbery-arrests-mcmichaels\/index.html\">Gre\u00adgo\u00adry and Travis McMichael face mur\u00adder charges in con\u00adnec\u00adtion with Ahmaud Arbery case<\/a> (Steve Almasy and Angela Bara\u00adjas, CNN): \u201cTwo men involved in the fatal shoot\u00ading of Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick, Geor\u00adgia, have been arrest\u00aded and face mur\u00adder and aggra\u00advat\u00aded assault charges, accord\u00ading to the Geor\u00adgia Bureau of Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>It is amaz\u00ading to me that it was not the video evi\u00addence that led to their arrest, but the pub\u00adlic out\u00adcry in response to the video evi\u00addence.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/p\/a-vigilante-killing-in-georgia\">A Vig\u00adi\u00adlante Killing in Geor\u00adgia<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cWhen white men grab guns and mount up to pur\u00adsue and seize an unarmed black man in the street, they stand in the shoes of lynch mobs past.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/ahmaud-arbery-basics\/\">Think\u00ading Chris\u00adtian\u00adly About the Ahmaud Arbery Lynch\u00ading<\/a> (Jake Meador, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cIf we are to be peo\u00adple who act just\u00adly and pro\u00admote jus\u00adtice, which is that each per\u00adson receives their right\u00adful dues, then we must right\u00adly dis\u00adcern what has hap\u00adpened in the case of Arbery. This was a lynch\u00ading. It was an act that God hates. And so we must rec\u00adog\u00adnize that and we must call it by its name and speak out against it and against all such acts of injus\u00adtice.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded in the abstract: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/31\/opinion\/election-voting-rights-fraud-prosecutions.html\">How to Pun\u00adish Vot\u00aders<\/a> (Josie Duffy Rice, New York Times): \u201cIt\u2019s well known that vot\u00ader sup\u00adpres\u00adsion has tak\u00aden the form of the clos\u00ading of polling places, new restric\u00adtive vot\u00ader ID laws, vot\u00ader roll purges of thou\u00adsands of eli\u00adgi\u00adble vot\u00aders and nine-hour lines at the polls. But Ms. Pearson\u2019s case is a reminder that it can also take the form of the aggres\u00adsive pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtion of indi\u00advid\u00adual black vot\u00aders for polling-place offens\u00ades \u2014 which in many cas\u00ades appears moti\u00advat\u00aded less by a sin\u00adcere desire to address fraud than by a desire to intim\u00adi\u00addate.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Pan\u00addem\u00adic Per\u00adspec\u00adtives\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/03\/world\/asia\/coronavirus-spread-where-why.html?campaign_id=9&amp;emc=edit_nn_20200504&amp;instance_id=18202&amp;nl=the-morning&amp;regi_id=59635643&amp;segment_id=26556&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=82bd71d01fd70886e97df691aa12c777\">The Covid-19 Rid\u00addle: Why Does the Virus Wal\u00adlop Some Places and Spare Oth\u00aders?<\/a> (Han\u00adnah Beech, Alis\u00adsa J. Rubin, Ana\u00adtoly Kur\u00admanaev and Ruth Maclean, New York Times): \u201cThe coro\u00adn\u00adavirus has killed so many peo\u00adple in Iran that the coun\u00adtry has resort\u00aded to mass buri\u00adals, but in neigh\u00adbor\u00ading Iraq, the body count is few\u00ader than 100. The Domini\u00adcan Repub\u00adlic has report\u00aded near\u00adly 7,600 cas\u00ades of the virus. Just across the bor\u00adder, Haiti has record\u00aded about 85.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/07\/climate\/coronavirus-weather-monitoring.html\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Could Dis\u00adrupt Weath\u00ader Fore\u00adcast\u00ading<\/a> (Hen\u00adry Foun\u00adtain, New York Times): \u201c\u2026data on tem\u00adper\u00ada\u00adture, wind and humid\u00adi\u00adty from air\u00adplane flights, col\u00adlect\u00aded by sen\u00adsors on the planes and trans\u00admit\u00adted in real time to fore\u00adcast\u00ading orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions around the world, has been cut by near\u00adly 90 per\u00adcent in some regions.\u201d I must con\u00adfess I did not see that com\u00ading. At all.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/google-app-censoring-covid-19-courses\/\">Google App Cen\u00adsor\u00ading Covid-19 Cours\u00ades<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cGoogle is a pri\u00advate enti\u00adty. It has the right to con\u00adtrol what goes out on its app plat\u00adform. Whether Google is moral\u00adly cor\u00adrect to exer\u00adcise that right to sup\u00adpress any unof\u00adfi\u00adcial pan\u00addem\u00adic infor\u00adma\u00adtion is a dif\u00adfer\u00adent ques\u00adtion \u2014 and a very impor\u00adtant one. Google owns YouTube \u2014 how long will they allow these cours\u00ades to remain on YouTube?\u201d These are cours\u00ades by aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics speak\u00ading with\u00adin their areas of exper\u00adtise.<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/05\/08\/plandemic-judy-mikovits-coronavirus\/\">Who is Judy Mikovits in \u2018Plan\u00addem\u00adic,\u2019 the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy video just banned from social media?<\/a> (Katie Shep\u00adherd, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe film is so ques\u00adtion\u00adable that social media plat\u00adforms includ\u00ading Face\u00adbook, YouTube and Vimeo on Thurs\u00adday scrubbed it from their sites. A Vimeo spokesper\u00adson, for exam\u00adple, said that the com\u00adpa\u00adny \u2018stands firm in keep\u00ading our plat\u00adform safe from con\u00adtent that spreads harm\u00adful and mis\u00adlead\u00ading health infor\u00adma\u00adtion. The video in ques\u00adtion has been removed \u2026 for vio\u00adlat\u00ading these very poli\u00adcies.\u2019\u201d A friend sent me a link to her video but it was pulled down. I have no opin\u00adion about the video because I haven\u2019t seen it. But I do have an opin\u00adion about it being pulled down. I dis\u00adlike that intense\u00adly. I fear the risks of mis\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion far less than I fear the risks of con\u00adtrol\u00adling infor\u00adma\u00adtion.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2020\/05\/05\/bronx-church-promised-land-coronavirus-deaths\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most\">A pas\u00adtor in the Bronx thought he knew hard\u00adship. Then his church saw 13 coro\u00adn\u00adavirus deaths.<\/a> (Sarah Pul\u00adliam Bai\u00adley, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cPromised Land, in the poor\u00adest con\u00adgres\u00adsion\u00adal dis\u00adtrict in the nation, sees about 250 most\u00adly African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan and Lati\u00adno wor\u00adshipers on a nor\u00admal week\u00adend. Pub\u00adlic hous\u00ading units line the streets near the church in the Mott Haven neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood, where city offi\u00adcials esti\u00admate the pover\u00adty rate is about 44 per\u00adcent.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/may\/small-black-churches-coronavirus-and-campaign-chc-grants.html\">In Inner-City Black Church\u00ades: More Grief, Few\u00ader Resources, Stronger Faith<\/a> (Kate Shell\u00adnutt, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cDespite bear\u00ading the dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate impact of the out\u00adbreak, black believ\u00aders have demon\u00adstrat\u00aded par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal endurance. In a Pew sur\u00advey released last week, mem\u00adbers of his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly black church\u00ades were more like\u00adly than any oth\u00ader reli\u00adgious tra\u00addi\u00adtion to say their faith has been strength\u00adened through the out\u00adbreak. More than half (56%) say their faith has become stronger, com\u00adpared to 35 per\u00adcent of all Chris\u00adtians and 24 per\u00adcent of adults over\u00adall.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/05\/01\/849408522\/clinical-study-considers-the-power-of-prayer-to-combat-covid-19?utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=nprnews\">Clin\u00adi\u00adcal Study Con\u00adsid\u00aders The Pow\u00ader Of Prayer To Com\u00adbat COVID-19<\/a> (Tom Gjel\u00adten, NPR): \u201cHalf of the patients, ran\u00addom\u00adly cho\u00adsen, will receive a \u2018uni\u00adver\u00adsal\u2019 prayer offered in five denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal forms, via Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, Hin\u00adduism, Islam, Judaism, and Bud\u00addhism. The oth\u00ader 500 patients will con\u00adsti\u00adtute the con\u00adtrol group.\u201d This study looks like a mess. How do they expect to keep the 500 in the con\u00adtrol group from being prayed for? I am pret\u00adty sure that if you are hos\u00adpi\u00adtal\u00adized with Covid-19 some\u00adone is pray\u00ading for you. And my the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy leads me to believe those organ\u00adic, heart\u00adfelt prayers offered by peo\u00adple who actu\u00adal\u00adly know the patients are going to be more sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant than the \u201cuni\u00adver\u00adsal prayers\u201d offered by the research par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants. I expect this study will lead inter\u00adnet athe\u00adists to claim that all prayer has been debunked when at most it will show that script\u00aded mul\u00adti\u00adfaith prayers offered on behalf of strangers do not move the heart of God.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/05\/food-banks-cant-go-like\/611206\/\">Food Banks Can\u2019t Go On Like This<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cNor\u00admal\u00adly, \u2018res\u00adcued\u2019 food\u2014items that would oth\u00ader\u00adwise be thrown out as their sell-by date approaches\u2014accounts for 97 per\u00adcent of Feed\u00ading San Diego\u2019s dis\u00adtri\u00adb\u00adu\u00adtions. Until the pan\u00addem\u00adic, the group was receiv\u00ading unpur\u00adchased food from 204 Star\u00adbucks loca\u00adtions every night of the year. Most of those stores are now closed. The orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion nor\u00admal\u00adly gets excess food from 260 gro\u00adcery stores too, but con\u00adsumers have been stock\u00ading up enough late\u00adly that many shelves are picked clean.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PUtll3mNj5U\">The UK Bless\u00ading \u2014 Church\u00ades sing \u2018The Bless\u00ading\u2019 over the UK<\/a> (YouTube): sev\u00aden mov\u00ading min\u00adutes. Shared with me by a student\u2019s father.<\/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 wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/05\/05\">A Pro\/Con List<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2302\/\">2020 Google Trends<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2020\/05\/05\/stanford-stadium-cited-as-national-model-for-social-distancing\/\">Stan\u00adford Sta\u00addi\u00adum cit\u00aded as nation\u00adal mod\u00adel for social dis\u00adtanc\u00ading<\/a> (Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x6NCSfAcqIE\">Big Mus\u00adcles Won\u2019t Pro\u00adtect You<\/a> (K\u2011von, YouTube): four min\u00adutes of stand-up com\u00ade\u00addy<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wGFU3Ad59GI\">Why is your name Preach\u00ader?<\/a> (Preach\u00ader Law\u00adson, YouTube): four min\u00adutes of stand-up com\u00ade\u00addy<\/li><\/ul>\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 <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/sister-show-mercy.html\">Sis\u00adter\u2026 Show Mer\u00adcy!<\/a> (Dan Phillips, Team Pyro): \u201cSis\u00adter, if there\u2019s one thing you and I can cer\u00adtain\u00adly agree on, it\u2019s this: I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be a woman, and you don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be a man. We\u2019re both prob\u00ada\u00adbly wrong where we\u2019re sure we\u2019re right, try as we might. So let me try to dart a telegram from my camp over to the distaff side.\u201d (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/04\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-148\">vol\u00adume 148<\/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>. 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