{"id":6030,"date":"2020-05-15T20:41:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T04:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2020-05-15T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T04:41:59","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/05\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-250","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 250"},"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\">Also, this is the 250<sup>th<\/sup> of these week\u00adly roundups I have pub\u00adlished. Even though last week was num\u00adber 249, I was still sur\u00adprised to type in 250 this week. Some\u00adday I\u2019ll remem\u00adber a spe\u00adcial num\u00adber is com\u00ading up and do some\u00adthing dif\u00adfer\u00adent for it. But not this day.<\/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:\/\/christianscholars.com\/are-the-wages-of-sin-really-death-moral-and-epidemiologic-observations\/\">Are the Wages of Sin Real\u00adly Death?: Moral and Epi\u00addemi\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adic Obser\u00adva\u00adtions<\/a> (David Lyle Jef\u00adfrey and Jeff Levin, Chris\u00adt\u00adian Scholar\u2019s Review): \u201cSo, are the wages of sin <em>real\u00adly <\/em>death? As far as pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion-health research sug\u00adgests, the answer is a guard\u00aded yes.\u201d The authors are pro\u00adfes\u00adsors at Bay\u00adlor, one of epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy and the oth\u00ader of lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture.&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@brazyintheday\/kids-tv-has-a-porn-problem-84592d9514fc\">Kids\u2019 TV has a porn prob\u00adlem<\/a> (Brazy\u00adDay, Medi\u00adum): \u201cIn a very real way, the \u2018hyper\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal and tox\u00adic\u2019 cul\u00adture that has sprung up around children\u2019s TV car\u00adtoons is of com\u00adpa\u00adnies\u2019 own mak\u00ading. They active\u00adly allow it to hap\u00adpen sim\u00adply by doing noth\u00ading \u2014 cre\u00adat\u00ading a law\u00adless vac\u00adu\u00adum where any\u00adthing goes and porn coex\u00adists with harm\u00adless fan cre\u00adations.\u201d This arti\u00adcle was much bet\u00adter than I expect\u00aded it to be.&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/how-we-got-the-bible\">How We Got the Bible<\/a> (Dirk Jongkind,Desiring God): \u201c\u2026by under\u00adstand\u00ading what God had done over the ages, we will see that it is rea\u00adson\u00adable and jus\u00adti\u00adfied to trust that the Bible in our hands is a trans\u00adla\u00adtion of the trust\u00adwor\u00adthy words of Scrip\u00adture.\u201d The author is a research fel\u00adlow in New Tes\u00adta\u00adment text and lan\u00adguage at Tyn\u00addale House, Cam\u00adbridge Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/may\/09\/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months\">The real Lord of the Flies: what hap\u00adpened when six boys were ship\u00adwrecked for 15 months<\/a> (The Guardian): \u201cThe kids agreed to work in teams of two, draw\u00ading up a strict ros\u00adter for gar\u00adden, kitchen and guard duty. Some\u00adtimes they quar\u00adrelled, but when\u00adev\u00ader that hap\u00adpened they solved it by impos\u00ading a time-out. Their days began and end\u00aded with song and prayer. Kolo fash\u00adioned a makeshift gui\u00adtar from a piece of drift\u00adwood, half a coconut shell and six steel wires sal\u00advaged from their wrecked boat \u2013 an instru\u00adment Peter has kept all these years \u2013 and played it to help lift their spir\u00adits.\u201c Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.\n<ul>\n<li>Fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scholars_Stage\/status\/1260958965082488832\">Twit\u00adter thread in response<\/a> by Tan\u00adner Greer: \u201cLord of the Flies is one of those nov\u00adels that peo\u00adple remem\u00adber wrong. Peo\u00adple remem\u00adber its cen\u00adtral theme as \u2018take away civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion, and we all turn into Hobbe\u00adsian lit\u00adtle mon\u00adsters.\u2019 But if you read the book as an adult, instead of an 8th grad\u00ader speed\u00ading through, you find a dif\u00adfer\u00adent mean\u00ading.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mereorthodoxy.com\/jake\/religious-conservatives-aspire-relevance\/\">Should Reli\u00adgious Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives Aspire to Noto\u00adri\u00adety?<\/a> (Jake Meador, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cYou don\u2019t go look\u00ading for pow\u00ader and pres\u00adtige. You aspire to be faith\u00adful. If pres\u00adtige finds you, then you allow your\u00adself to be extrud\u00aded into it and pray that God pro\u00adtect you from the spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal dan\u00adgers.\u201d This is essay is part of a swarm of inter\u00adnet arti\u00adcles about the tra\u00adjec\u00adto\u00adry of the mag\u00ada\u00adzine <em>First Things<\/em>, but you don\u2019t have to read any\u00adthing else about that (or even care much about that) to find this essay worth\u00adwhile.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Pan\u00addem\u00adic Per\u00adspec\u00adtives\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/?s=%22regulatory+state+is+failing%22\">\u201cOur reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adto\u00adry state is fail\u00ading us\u201d<\/a> Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cWhen the CDC pooh-poohed masks ear\u00adly on, or botched their test\u00ading kit there\u00adby delay\u00ading U.S. test\u00ading by weeks or maybe months, did the per\u00adma\u00adnent staff of the CDC rise up and rebel and leak howl\u00ading protests to the media, real\u00adiz\u00ading that thou\u00adsands of lives were at stake? That is sure\u00adly what would hap\u00adpen if say the cur\u00adrent FDA announced it was going to approve thalido\u00admide.\u201d This is a link to a search result on his blog, keep scrolling after you fin\u00adish the main arti\u00adcle to see sev\u00ader\u00adal exam\u00adples of what he is describ\u00ading.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/05\/coronavirus-pandemic-be-charitable-to-your-fellow-americans\/\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Pan\u00addem\u00adic: A Plea for Gen\u00aderos\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Michael Bren\u00addan Dougher\u00adty, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cThere is a good rea\u00adson to hes\u00adi\u00adtate to judge, name\u00adly our igno\u00adrance. Plagues are a time for scape\u00adgoats and blame-shift\u00ading pre\u00adcise\u00adly because they deal out suf\u00adfer\u00ading such a seem\u00ading\u00adly unjust and ran\u00addom fash\u00adion. Our lead\u00aders say they will fol\u00adlow the sci\u00adence, but they can\u2019t, real\u00adly. With a hereto\u00adfore-unseen virus such as this one, the sci\u00adence is more like inher\u00adit\u00aded wis\u00addom and intu\u00adition from pre\u00advi\u00adous, sim\u00adi\u00adlar mal\u00adadies, at least at the start. What fol\u00adlows is a con\u00adfused rush to catch up through tri\u00adal and error.\u201c<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erinbromage.com\/post\/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them\">The Risks \u2014 Know Them \u2014 Avoid Them<\/a> (Erin Bro\u00admage, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cI reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly hear peo\u00adple wor\u00adry\u00ading about gro\u00adcery stores, bike rides, incon\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adate run\u00adners who are not wear\u00ading masks.\u2026 are these places of con\u00adcern? Well, not real\u00adly. Let me explain.\u201d The author is a biol\u00ado\u00adgy pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at U Mass who teach\u00ades cours\u00ades on immunol\u00ado\u00adgy and infec\u00adtious dis\u00adease. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/no-the-superspreader-choir-in-washington-doesnt-prove-church-is-dangerous\">No, the super\u00adspread\u00ader choir in Wash\u00ading\u00adton does\u00adn\u2019t prove church is dan\u00adger\u00adous<\/a> (Tim\u00ado\u00adthy P. Car\u00adney, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Exam\u00adin\u00ader): \u201cIt\u2019s hard to blame the choir for not tak\u00ading more pre\u00adcau\u00adtions, as this was March 10, before stuff real\u00adly hit the fan (and when our gov\u00adern\u00adment was still telling peo\u00adple NOT to wear masks).\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>This op-ed is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6919e6.htm?s_cid=mm6919e6_w\">a CDC inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion<\/a>: \u201cThe March 10 choir rehearsal last\u00aded from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Sev\u00ader\u00adal mem\u00adbers arrived ear\u00adly to set up chairs in a large mul\u00adti\u00adpur\u00adpose room. Chairs were arranged in six rows of 20 chairs each, spaced 6\u201310 inch\u00ades apart with a cen\u00adter aisle divid\u00ading left and right stages.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/lockdown-over-someone-tell-government\/\">Lock\u00addown is over. Some\u00adone tell the gov\u00adern\u00adment<\/a> (Dominic Green, Spec\u00adta\u00adtor USA): \u201cEvery soci\u00adety has react\u00aded to COVID-19 accord\u00ading to its prin\u00adci\u00adples or, if no prin\u00adci\u00adples were to hand, its habits. It has been America\u2019s mis\u00adfor\u00adtune that its prin\u00adci\u00adples and habits are ill-suit\u00aded to man\u00adag\u00ading an epi\u00addem\u00adic.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/05\/take-shutdown-skeptics-seriously\/611419\/\">Take the Shut\u00addown Skep\u00adtics Seri\u00adous\u00adly<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cThe gen\u00ader\u00adal point is that min\u00adi\u00admiz\u00ading the num\u00adber of COVID-19 deaths today or a month from now or six months from now may <em>or may not<\/em> min\u00adi\u00admize the human costs of the pan\u00addem\u00adic when the full spec\u00adtrum of human con\u00adse\u00adquences is con\u00adsid\u00adered. The last glob\u00adal depres\u00adsion cre\u00adat\u00aded con\u00addi\u00adtions for a cat\u00ada\u00adstroph\u00adic world war that killed rough\u00adly 75 to 80 mil\u00adlion peo\u00adple. Is that a pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty? The down\u00adside risks and costs of every approach are real, fright\u00aden\u00ading, and depress\u00ading, no mat\u00adter how lit\u00adtle one thinks of reopen\u00ading now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mereorthodoxy.com\/brad\/2020\/05\/14\/coronavirus-folly-american-exceptionalism\/\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus and The Myopia of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Excep\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adism<\/a> (Brad Lit\u00adtle\u00adjohn, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cRather than <em>prov\u00ading <\/em>our\u00adselves excep\u00adtion\u00adal, we sim\u00adply assume that we are. The ordi\u00adnary rules do not apply to us, because we are Amer\u00adi\u00adca. We make things bet\u00adter here, we run things more effi\u00adcient\u00adly here, we live more hap\u00adpi\u00adly here, because we are Amer\u00adi\u00adca. There is no need to look at OECD rank\u00adings, because we already know that they are wrong if they show us any\u00adwhere but #1\u2026. this way of think\u00ading, far from mak\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adca great, is almost cer\u00adtain to make her the oppo\u00adsite. After all, the only way to improve is to learn, and the chief way we learn as human beings is from the exam\u00adples of oth\u00aders.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2020\/05\/the-miracle-of-the-internet.html\">The Mir\u00ada\u00adcle of the Inter\u00adnet<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cThe surge in traf\u00adfic, on the inter\u00adnet as a whole and on AT&amp;T\u2019s part of the net\u00adwork, is extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary in a way that the phrase <em>20 per\u00adcent increase<\/em> doesn\u2019t quite cap\u00adture. AT&amp;T\u2019s net\u00adwork is car\u00adry\u00ading an extra 71 petabytes of data every day. How much is 71 petabytes? One com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson: Back at the end of 2014, AT&amp;T\u2019s <em>total<\/em> net\u00adwork traf\u00adfic was 56 petabytes a day; in just a few weeks, AT&amp;T has accom\u00admo\u00addat\u00aded more <em>new<\/em> traf\u00adfic every day than its total dai\u00adly traf\u00adfic six years ago. (Dur\u00ading the pan\u00addem\u00adic, the AT&amp;T net\u00adwork has been car\u00adry\u00ading about 426 petabytes a day\u2014one petabyte is 1 mil\u00adlion giga\u00adbytes.)\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2020\/05\/14\/stanfords-27-7-billion-not-enough-to-house-students-in-need-in-a-pandemic\/\">Stan\u00adford\u2019s $27.7 bil\u00adlion not enough to house stu\u00addents in need amid pan\u00addem\u00adic<\/a> (Sheikh Sri\u00adjon, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cHar\u00advard is allow\u00ading those on cam\u00adpus with demon\u00adstrat\u00aded need to stay for the whole sum\u00admer for only $200. MIT is offer\u00ading free hous\u00ading and meals. Duke is offer\u00ading free hous\u00ading and par\u00adtial com\u00adpen\u00adsa\u00adtion for lost sum\u00admer earn\u00adings to those with sub\u00adstan\u00adtial finan\u00adcial aid.\u2026 Com\u00adpare Stanford\u2019s pol\u00adi\u00adcy to these insti\u00adtu\u00adtions\u2019 poli\u00adcies. Though it has a $27.7 bil\u00adlion dol\u00adlar endow\u00adment (as of Octo\u00adber 2019), it is charg\u00ading stu\u00addents near\u00adly $6,000 for sum\u00admer hous\u00ading and meals in times of such finan\u00adcial uncer\u00adtain\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/05\/14\/bret-stephens-new-york-times-outrage-backlash-256494\">The New York Times Sur\u00adren\u00addered to an Out\u00adrage Mob. Jour\u00adnal\u00adism Will Suf\u00adfer For It.<\/a> (Pamela Paresky, Jonathan Haidt, Nadine Strossen And Steven Pinker, Politi\u00adco): \u201c\u2026for the Times to \u2018dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u2019 pas\u00adsages of a pub\u00adlished arti\u00adcle into an inac\u00adces\u00adsi\u00adble mem\u00ado\u00adry hole is an Orwellian act that, thanks to the newspaper\u2019s actions, might now be seen as accept\u00adable jour\u00adnal\u00adis\u00adtic prac\u00adtice. It is all the worse when the edi\u00adtors\u2019 pub\u00adlished account of what they delet\u00aded is itself inac\u00adcu\u00adrate. This does a dis\u00adser\u00advice to read\u00aders, his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans and jour\u00adnal\u00adists, who are left unable to deter\u00admine for them\u00adselves what the con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy was about, and to Stephens, who is left unable to defend him\u00adself against read\u00aders\u2019 worst sus\u00adpi\u00adcions.\u201d<\/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:\/\/i.redd.it\/b2dum063xly41.jpg\">How to Live To Be 100<\/a> (red\u00addit)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2304\/\">Preprint<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/i-am-a-depraved-wretch-says-calvinist-smugly\">\u2018I Am A Depraved Wretch,\u2019 Says Calvin\u00adist Smug\u00adly<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/05\/12\">Seek\u00ading Approval<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine): the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly inac\u00adcu\u00adrate<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2020\/05\/the-carrier-is-vulnerable-and-obsolete-according-to-100-years-worth-of-military-journals\/\">\u2018The Car\u00adri\u00ader is Vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble and Obso\u00adlete\u2019 accord\u00ading to 100 years worth of mil\u00adi\u00adtary jour\u00adnals<\/a> (Dirk Dig\u00adgler, Duf\u00adfel Blog): most of you will not find this piece all that fun\u00adny. The rest of you will laugh out loud.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/uYu32mU\">The Shop\u00adping Cart The\u00ado\u00adry<\/a> (Imgur, but I think orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly from 4Chan)<\/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=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/if-i-were-22-again\">If I Were 22 Again<\/a> (John Piper, Desir\u00ading God): \u201cThere have been about 18,340 days since I turned 22, and I think I have read my Bible on more of those days than I have eat\u00aden. I have cer\u00adtain\u00adly read my Bible on more of those days that I have watched tele\u00advi\u00adsion or videos.\u2026 Read your Bible every day of your life. If you have time for break\u00adfast, nev\u00ader say that you don\u2019t have time for God\u2019s word.\u201d This whole thing is real\u00adly good. High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/05\/11\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-151\">vol\u00adume 151<\/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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