{"id":6528,"date":"2021-03-19T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6528"},"modified":"2021-03-19T19:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:15:53","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/03\/19\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-293","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 293"},"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\">This is vol\u00adume 293 \u2014 a prime num\u00adber.<\/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>Arti\u00adcle relat\u00aded to vio\u00adlence against Asian-Amer\u00adi\u00adcans:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2021\/march\/religion-race-and-atlanta-murders-untangling-multiple-layer.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+christianitytoday%2Fctmag+%28CT+Magazine%29\">Reli\u00adgion, Race, and the Atlanta Mur\u00adders<\/a> (Ed Stet\u00adzer, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThere are so many threads to this knot that need to be slow\u00adly untan\u00adgled. There are ele\u00adments relat\u00aded to pornog\u00adra\u00adphy, sex traf\u00adfick\u00ading, reli\u00adgion, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism, South\u00adern Bap\u00adtists, and many oth\u00aders just out\u00adside our periph\u00adery. But nei\u00adther the com\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adty of this event nor the trib\u00adal\u00adism of our cul\u00adtur\u00adal dis\u00adcourse must not allow us to avoid self-reflec\u00adtion and scruti\u00adny. We must con\u00adfront the real\u00adi\u00adty that some\u00adthing is hor\u00adri\u00adbly wrong in our midst when a per\u00adson kills to \u2018elim\u00adi\u00adnate\u2019 temp\u00adta\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/06\/opinion\/asian-american-violence-race.html\">We Need to Put a Name to This Vio\u00adlence<\/a> (Jay Caspi\u00adan Kang, New York Times): \u201cThere is no shared his\u00adto\u00adry between, say, Thai immi\u00adgrants who saw images of one of their own attacked in San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco, and the Chi\u00adnese-Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of Oak\u00adland alarmed by the assault in Chinatown.Asian-American iden\u00adti\u00adty is frac\u00adtured and often inco\u00adher\u00adent because it assumes kin\u00adship between peo\u00adple who do not speak the same lan\u00adguage, and, in many cas\u00ades, dis\u00adlike one anoth\u00ader.\u201d This was writ\u00adten before the Atlanta mur\u00adders and is dis\u00adcussing the trend wave of vio\u00adlence more gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-muddled-history-of-anti-asian-violence\">The Mud\u00addled His\u00adto\u00adry of Anti-Asian Vio\u00adlence<\/a> (Hua Hsu, New York\u00ader): \u201cSome have won\u00addered if these hor\u00adrif\u00adic, viral videos con\u00adsti\u00adtute a wave, or if they were just ran\u00addom inci\u00addents. When your con\u00adcerns have gone unrec\u00adog\u00adnized for decades, it\u2019s under\u00adstand\u00adable why some with\u00adin the Asian-Amer\u00adi\u00adcan com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty remain so invest\u00aded in using these high\u00adly vis\u00adi\u00adble moments as an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to call atten\u00adtion to hate, even if the inci\u00addents seem more var\u00adied than that. The wave in ques\u00adtion isn\u2019t just two or three inci\u00addents.\u201d Also writ\u00adten before the Atlanta shoot\u00adings.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/racializing-atlanta-massage-parlor-killings\/\">Racial\u00adiz\u00ading The Atlanta Mas\u00adsage Par\u00adlor Killings<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cIt is strik\u00ading to see how quick\u00adly our media has racial\u00adized the nar\u00adra\u00adtive of the hor\u00adrif\u00adic mur\u00adders at the Geor\u00adgia mas\u00adsage par\u00adlors. From what we know so far, the alleged mur\u00adder\u00ader was a young man tor\u00adment\u00aded by his com\u00adpul\u00adsive sex\u00adu\u00adal desires. He vis\u00adit\u00aded mas\u00adsage par\u00adlors in the past, and went to this one to kill the women he once depend\u00aded on to grat\u00adi\u00adfy his desires. From all the avail\u00adable evi\u00addence, these killings were the misog\u00ady\u00adnis\u00adtic act of a sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly depraved man.\u201d As is often the case with Dreher, some of the best mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal is in the updates at the end (usu\u00adal\u00adly a com\u00adment from a read\u00ader that Dreher thought sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant).<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/when-the-narrative-replaces-the-news-9ea\">When The Nar\u00adra\u00adtive Replaces The News<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cMass killers, if they are moti\u00advat\u00aded by big\u00adotry or hate, tend to let the world know\u2026 This mass mur\u00adder\u00ader in Atlanta actu\u00adal\u00adly denied any such motive, and, to repeat myself, <em>there is no evi\u00addence for it<\/em> \u2014 and that has been true from the very start.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/03\/19\/aaron-robert-long-spa-killer-atlanta-jay-baker-cop-bad-day\/\">The Media Got It Wrong: Police Cap\u00adtain Did\u00adn\u2019t Say the Atlanta Spa Killer Was Hav\u00ading a \u2018Bad Day\u2019<\/a> (Rob\u00adby Soave, Rea\u00adson): \u201cA police offi\u00adcer excus\u00ading Long\u2019s actions as mere\u00adly the result of him hav\u00ading a \u2018bad day\u2019 would indeed be con\u00adtemptible. But that\u2019s not what Bak\u00ader did. In fact, many of the peo\u00adple so infu\u00adri\u00adat\u00aded about the quote were mis\u00adled by Rupar\u2019s edit of the video. The full video (the rel\u00ade\u00advant sec\u00adtion starts at about 13:50) makes clear that Bak\u00ader was not pro\u00advid\u00ading his own com\u00admen\u00adtary, but rather sum\u00adma\u00adriz\u00ading what Long had told the inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtors.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/third-places-horizons-male-friendships\/\">Third Places and the Hori\u00adzons of Male Friend\u00adships<\/a> (Ryan McCormick, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cGen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly speak\u00ading, typ\u00adi\u00adcal male friend\u00adship is dif\u00adfer\u00adent from typ\u00adi\u00adcal, con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary female friend\u00adship. A fail\u00adure to rec\u00adog\u00adnize the dif\u00adfer\u00adent ways that men and women form inti\u00admate bonds in friend\u00adship is what breeds so much con\u00adfu\u00adsion and leads to the mis\u00addi\u00adag\u00adno\u00adsis of \u2018tox\u00adic mas\u00adculin\u00adi\u00adty.\u2019\u201d I will add one extra lay\u00ader of diag\u00adno\u00adsis that the author did\u00adn\u2019t address: many in our cul\u00adture have a hor\u00adror of male-only spaces. How are we sur\u00adprised to dis\u00adcov\u00ader a dearth of male friend\u00adships when we view the very exis\u00adtence of mas\u00adcu\u00adline com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties as evi\u00addence of some\u00adthing amiss?<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-false-and-exaggerated-claims\">The False and Exag\u00adger\u00adat\u00aded Claims Still Being Spread About the Capi\u00adtol Riot<\/a> (Glenn Green\u00adwald, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cDespite this alleged bru\u00adtal mur\u00adder tak\u00ading place in one of the most sur\u00adveilled build\u00adings on the plan\u00adet, filled that day with hun\u00addreds of cell\u00adphones tap\u00ading the events, nobody saw video of it. No pho\u00adtographs depict\u00aded it. To this day, no autop\u00adsy report has been released. No details from any offi\u00adcial source have been pro\u00advid\u00aded.\u201d<ul><li>Fol\u00adlow-up: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/as-the-insurrection-narrative-crumbles\">As the Insur\u00adrec\u00adtion Nar\u00adra\u00adtive Crum\u00adbles, Democ\u00adrats Cling to it More Des\u00adper\u00adate\u00adly Than Ever<\/a> (Glenn Green\u00adwald, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cAs I detailed sev\u00ader\u00adal weeks ago, so many of the most har\u00adrow\u00ading and wide\u00adspread media claims about the Jan\u00adu\u00adary 6 riot proved to be total fab\u00adri\u00adca\u00adtions. A pro-Trump mob did not bash Office Bri\u00adan Sicknick\u2019s skull in with a fire extin\u00adguish\u00ader. No pro\u00adtest\u00ader brought zip-ties with them as some pre\u00admed\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded plot to kid\u00adnap mem\u00adbers of Con\u00adgress (two riot\u00aders found them on a table inside). There\u2019s no evi\u00addence any\u00adone intend\u00aded to assas\u00adsi\u00adnate Mike Pence, Mitt Rom\u00adney or any\u00adone else.\u201d<\/li><li>Relat\u00aded: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/15\/us\/politics\/brian-sicknick-jan-6-capitol-police.html?campaign_id=60&amp;emc=edit_na_20210315&amp;instance_id=0&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;ref=cta&amp;regi_id=59635643&amp;segment_id=53446&amp;user_id=82bd71d01fd70886e97df691aa12c777\">Two are charged in the assault of a Capi\u00adtol Police offi\u00adcer who died after the Jan. 6 riot.<\/a> (Katie Ben\u00adner&nbsp;and&nbsp;Adam Gold\u00adman, New York Times): \u201cThe Jus\u00adtice Depart\u00adment has charged two men in the assault on Bri\u00adan D. Sick\u00adnick, a&nbsp;Capi\u00adtol Police&nbsp;offi\u00adcer who died the day after he fought riot\u00aders storm\u00ading the Capi\u00adtol on Jan. 6, accord\u00ading to a law enforce\u00adment offi\u00adcial briefed on the case and court doc\u00adu\u00adments.\u2026 It is not clear whether Offi\u00adcer Sick\u00adnick died because of his expo\u00adsure to the spray.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/18\/briefing\/atlanta-shootings-kamala-harris-tax-deadline-2021.html\">Covid\u2019s Par\u00adti\u00adsan Errors<\/a> (David Leon\u00adhardt, New York Times): \u201c&nbsp;\u2018Repub\u00adli\u00adcans con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admate risks, while Democ\u00adrats con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly over\u00ades\u00adti\u00admate them.\u2019&nbsp; \u2026The rea\u00adsons for these ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal bias\u00ades aren\u2019t com\u00adplete\u00adly clear, but they are not shock\u00ading. Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives tend to be more hos\u00adtile to behav\u00adior restric\u00adtions and to sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic research. And lib\u00ader\u00adals some\u00adtimes over\u00adre\u00adact to social prob\u00adlems.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2021\/03\/17\/science.abf8003\">Tim\u00ading the SARS-CoV\u00ad\u20112 index case in Hubei province<\/a> (Sci\u00adence, Jonathan Pekar et al):&nbsp; \u201cEmpir\u00adi\u00adcal obser\u00adva\u00adtion through\u00adout the SARS-CoV\u00ad\u20112 pan\u00addem\u00adic has shown the out\u00adsized role of super\u00adspread\u00ading events in the prop\u00ada\u00adga\u00adtion of SARS-CoV\u00ad\u20112, where\u00adin the aver\u00adage infect\u00aded per\u00adson does not trans\u00admit the virus. Our results sug\u00adgest the same dynam\u00adics like\u00adly influ\u00adenced the ini\u00adtial estab\u00adlish\u00adment of SARS-CoV\u00ad\u20112 in humans, as only 29.7% of sim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded epi\u00addemics from the pri\u00adma\u00adry analy\u00adsis went on to estab\u00adlish self-sus\u00adtain\u00ading epi\u00addemics. The remain\u00ading 70.3% of epi\u00addemics went extinct.\u2026 Fur\u00adther\u00admore, the large and high\u00adly con\u00adnect\u00aded con\u00adtact net\u00adworks char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adiz\u00ading urban areas seem crit\u00adi\u00adcal to the estab\u00adlish\u00adment of SARS-CoV\u00ad\u20112. When we sim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded epi\u00addemics where the num\u00adber of con\u00adnec\u00adtions was reduced by 50% or 75% (with\u00adout rescal\u00ading per-con\u00adtact trans\u00admis\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty), to reflect emer\u00adgence in a rur\u00adal com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, the epi\u00addemics went extinct 94.5% or 99.6% of the time, respec\u00adtive\u00adly.\u201d<ul><li>This is real\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading. The researchers are large\u00adly at UCSD. One impli\u00adca\u00adtion is that there are a LOT more ani\u00admal-to-human COVID-like infec\u00adtions that sim\u00adply nev\u00ader make the leap to becom\u00ading wide\u00adspread. Kind of like music: there are a ton of great musi\u00adcians who just nev\u00ader catch their big break. With\u00adout super\u00adspread\u00aders, this kind of pan\u00addem\u00adic appears unlike\u00adly. I hope researchers can find a way to address what\u00adev\u00ader caus\u00ades some\u00adone to be a super\u00adspread\u00ader.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2021\/03\/19\/raising-beef-cattle\/\">Rais\u00ading Beef Cat\u00adtle<\/a> (Tom Blan\u00adton, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cIt is by cher\u00adry-pick\u00ading images of the times of con\u00adfine\u00adment from around the world that the grue\u00adsome image of \u2018fac\u00adto\u00adry farms\u2019 is cre\u00adat\u00aded. Often the images are tak\u00aden from coun\u00adtries that don\u2019t have the human\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions that most West\u00adern nations have.\u2026 If those gen\u00aduine\u00adly con\u00adcerned for the suf\u00adfer\u00ading of ani\u00admals could find it with\u00adin them\u00adselves to rec\u00adog\u00adnize that it is not immoral to slaugh\u00adter ani\u00admals humane\u00adly for food, they would find many allies for the cause of reduc\u00ading ani\u00admal suf\u00adfer\u00ading amongst the peo\u00adple who raise and work with these ani\u00admals on a dai\u00adly basis.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/could-it-be-genes?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMzgzNzYzMywiXyI6Ii8zeUl6IiwiaWF0IjoxNjE2MDgxNDE5LCJleHAiOjE2MTYwODUwMTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yOTU5MzciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.hIjpDpl0mQfuNY71YUFPnC4c-k3BpWS648_Jh5sj4X0\">Could It Be\u2026 Genes?<\/a> (Fred\u00addie deBoer, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThis is an arti\u00adcle about how fam\u00adi\u00adly influ\u00adences chil\u00addren with\u00adout a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of the most direct and pow\u00ader\u00adful way. The words \u2018gene\u2019 and \u2018genes\u2019 and \u2018genet\u00adic\u2019 do not appear in this paper. Nei\u00adther do \u2018her\u00adi\u00adta\u00adble\u2019 or \u2018hered\u00adi\u00adty\u2019 or \u2018hered\u00adi\u00adtary.\u2019 The con\u00adcept of the trans\u00adfer of genet\u00adic infor\u00adma\u00adtion from par\u00adent to off\u00adspring sim\u00adply does not exist in this men\u00adtal space\u2026 in a paper about how fam\u00adi\u00adlies influ\u00adence the char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtics of their chil\u00addren. I would call this odd, but it\u2019s par for the course in social sci\u00adence research.\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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EWX0bbGAd0k\">A Geog\u00adra\u00adphy of Who Hates Who<\/a> (The Dai\u00adly Show, YouTube): three min\u00adutes. Not entire\u00adly accu\u00adrate, but fair\u00adly amus\u00ading.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wHr02U1OYVk\">St. Patrick: The Musi\u00adcal<\/a> (Luther\u00adan Satire, YouTube): six min\u00adutes, rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/in-edgy-grammys-performance-fully-clothed-woman-sings-beautiful-song\/\">In Edgy Gram\u00admys Per\u00adfor\u00admance, Ful\u00adly Clothed Woman Sings Beau\u00adti\u00adful Song<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2021-03-19?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DilbertDailyStrip+%28Dilbert+Daily+Strip%29\">Mask Dur\u00ading Zoom<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert): it actu\u00adal\u00adly does feel like this some\u00adtimes<\/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:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/27538479\">On Obsti\u00adna\u00adcy In Belief<\/a> (C.S. Lewis, The Sewa\u00adnee Review): this is a reward\u00ading essay from way back in 1955. (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/07\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-6\">vol\u00adume 6<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fea\u00adtur\u00ading sev\u00ader\u00adal per\u00adspec\u00adtives about the mur\u00adders in Atlanta<\/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":"My weekly roundup, with lots about Atlanta, violence against Asian-Americans in general, and a variety of other interesting articles.","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":[208,195,275,117,172,176,198],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-environmentalism","tag-gender","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-science","tag-vegetarianism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","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=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}