{"id":6723,"date":"2021-10-01T17:58:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T01:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2021-10-01T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T01:58:37","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/10\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-320","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 320"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/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

This is vol\u00adume 320, which is 28<\/sup> + 26<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The Mis\u00adtakes We Can\u00adnot Make Again<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201c\u2026if peo\u00adple of faith are to be con\u00adcerned about jus\u00adtice (and they are!), then jus\u00adtice is rarely more imme\u00addi\u00adate and impor\u00adtant than when con\u00adfronting both the scourge of crime and the tragedy of excess enforce\u00adment and mass incar\u00adcer\u00ada\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>
  2. A Cog in the Col\u00adlege Admis\u00adsions Scan\u00addal Speaks Out<\/a> (Bil\u00adly Witz, New York Times): \u201cVan\u00adde\u00admo\u00ader, unlike the oth\u00aders accused in the plot, did not per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly gain in the trans\u00adac\u00adtions. He hand\u00aded checks total\u00ading $770,000 from Singer to Stan\u00adford devel\u00adop\u00adment offi\u00adcers, who planned to use the mon\u00adey for new boats.\u2026 So as he told his sto\u00adry to Stanford\u2019s inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtors, he won\u00addered why no one had ever come to him when the indict\u00adments came down, not\u00ading that even fed\u00ader\u00adal pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtors had acknowl\u00adedged he did not enrich him\u00adself from the scheme. It rein\u00adforced the notion that he was sim\u00adply an asset \u2014 a name\u00adless, expend\u00adable cog in a cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtion with a $29 bil\u00adlion endow\u00adment.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent. Stan\u00adford does not come off look\u00ading good at all. <\/li>
  3. Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents are more like\u00adly to wear masks on bicy\u00adcles than hel\u00admets<\/a> (Maxwell Mey\u00ader, Stan\u00adford Review): \u201cIn April of this year, I wit\u00adnessed some\u00adthing on the Stan\u00adford cam\u00adpus that will be seared into my mem\u00ado\u00adry for\u00adev\u00ader: a stu\u00addent on a bicy\u00adcle, wear\u00ading flip-flops, Air\u00adPods in ear, going the wrong way through a round\u00adabout in an active con\u00adstruc\u00adtion zone, with no hel\u00admet. But like any good fol\u00adlow\u00ader of sci\u00adence, the stu\u00addent was<\/em> wear\u00ading a dis\u00adpos\u00adable blue face mask \u2014 for safe\u00adty, I guess.\u201d Should he desire to, Mey\u00ader will become a well-known nation\u00adal com\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtor some\u00adday. He\u2019s quite good.<\/li>
  4. Why I Am a Con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy The\u00ado\u00adrist<\/a> (Hans Boers\u00adma, First Things): \u201cWhen rulers man\u00addate vac\u00adcine pass\u00adports and estab\u00adlish elab\u00ado\u00adrate elec\u00adtron\u00adic sys\u00adtems to police com\u00adpli\u00adance, it doesn\u2019t take a great deal of imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion to see how the same sys\u00adtem might be used\u2014and in the eyes of many should<\/em> be used\u2014to reg\u00adu\u00adlate car\u00adbon emis\u00adsions, expen\u00addi\u00adtures, and even opin\u00adions. After all, it\u2019s not just the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus that is dan\u00adger\u00adous. So are cli\u00admate change, social inequal\u00adi\u00adty, and cer\u00adtain moral and reli\u00adgious con\u00advic\u00adtions. Tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, trav\u00adel\u00ading from vac\u00adcine pass\u00adports to a social cred\u00adit system\u2014the kind that Chi\u00adna already has in place\u2014takes no time at all.\u2026 This is not an argu\u00adment against vac\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtion per se. It is an argu\u00adment to take con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy theorists\u2014David fore\u00admost among them\u2014seriously.\u201d The author is an Angli\u00adcan the\u00adolo\u00adgian.<\/li>
  5. The Pub\u00adlic Con\u00adtin\u00adues to Under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admate COVID\u2019s Age Dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion<\/a> (David Wal\u00adlace-Wells, NY Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cAfter 18 months of pub\u00adlic-health guid\u00adance pro\u00admot\u00ading uni\u00adver\u00adsal vig\u00adi\u00adlance, I think hard\u00adly any Amer\u00adi\u00adcan has a clear view of just how dra\u00admat\u00adic these dif\u00adfer\u00aden\u00adtials are. All else being equal, an unvac\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded 66-year old is about 30 times more like\u00adly to die, giv\u00aden a con\u00adfirmed case, than an unvac\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded 36-year-old, and some\u00adone over 85 is over 10,000 times more at risk of dying than a child under 10.\u2026 a vac\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded 80-year-old has about the same mor\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty risk as an unvac\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded 50-year-old, and an unvac\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded 30-year-old has a low\u00ader risk than a vac\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded 45-year-old.\u201d<\/li>
  6. Inside the Church That Preach\u00ades \u2018Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand\u2019<\/a> (Sarah Stanko\u00adrb, Vice): \u201cMoth\u00ader Kirk can be a joy\u00adous, faith\u00adful com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty. But the con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtion also is at odds with Moscow\u2019s more lib\u00ader\u00adal pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion (sur\u00adround\u00ading Latah coun\u00adty vot\u00aded for Pres\u00adi\u00addent Biden in 2020). Depend\u00ading upon whom you ask, the town either hosts a Calvin\u00adist utopia or a patri\u00adar\u00adchal cult in which women must sub\u00admit or face dis\u00adci\u00adpline at home and at church. At the cen\u00adter of it all is noto\u00adri\u00adous\u00adly con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial Dou\u00adglas Wil\u00adson, the fire\u00adbrand pas\u00adtor who has been pre\u00adsid\u00ading over his Moth\u00ader Kirk fief\u00addom for more than 40 years.\u201d Many of the details in this sto\u00adry are very bad.