{"id":6774,"date":"2021-12-03T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T03:55:15","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/12\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-328","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 328"},"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 328, which is the year that one of my favorite church lead\u00aders became a bish\u00adop: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athanasius_of_Alexandria\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athanasius_of_Alexandria\">Athana\u00adsius<\/a>.<\/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>The Supreme Court recon\u00adsid\u00aders abor\u00adtion:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/12\/01\/us\/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court?referringSource=articleShare#abortion-supreme-court-mississippi-law\">The Supreme Court seems poised to uphold Mississippi\u2019s abor\u00adtion law.<\/a> (Adam Lip\u00adtak, New York Times): \u201cThe Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednes\u00adday to uphold a Mis\u00adsis\u00adsip\u00adpi law that bans abor\u00adtions after 15 weeks of preg\u00adnan\u00adcy, based on some\u00adtimes tense and heat\u00aded ques\u00adtion\u00ading at a momen\u00adtous argu\u00adment in the most impor\u00adtant abor\u00adtion case in decades. Such a rul\u00ading would be flat\u00adly at odds with what the court has said was the cen\u00adtral hold\u00ading of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 deci\u00adsion that estab\u00adlished a con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal right to abor\u00adtion and pro\u00adhib\u00adit\u00aded states from ban\u00adning the pro\u00adce\u00addure before fetal via\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty, or around 23 weeks. But the court\u2019s six-mem\u00adber con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive major\u00adi\u00adty seemed divid\u00aded about whether to stop at 15 weeks, for now at least, or whether to over\u00adrule Roe entire\u00adly, allow\u00ading states to ban abor\u00adtions at any time or entire\u00adly.\u201d<\/li><li>For a free, non\u00adpay\u00adwalled analy\u00adsis check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2021\/12\/majority-of-court-appears-poised-to-uphold-mississippis-ban-on-most-abortions-after-15-weeks\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2021\/12\/majority-of-court-appears-poised-to-uphold-mississippis-ban-on-most-abortions-after-15-weeks\/\">Major\u00adi\u00adty of court appears poised to roll back abor\u00adtion rights<\/a> (Amy Howe, SCO\u00adTUS\u00adblog)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/why-roe-will-fall-and-obergefell-77a?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NDg0NDkwMCwiXyI6Inc2aGJiIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM4NTg3NjIzLCJleHAiOjE2Mzg1OTEyMjMsImlzcyI6InB1Yi02MTM3MSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.UFm08jB1MAgL7vyEeY_qXUXYxTMfRHmif7XxeYMnsag\">Why Roe Will Fall And Oberge\u00adfell Won\u2019t<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn <em>Roe<\/em>, the Court tried to jump\u00adstart a con\u00adsen\u00adsus and failed to secure it, with pub\u00adlic opin\u00adion very sim\u00adi\u00adlar now to where it was half a cen\u00adtu\u00adry ago. In&nbsp;<em>Oberge\u00adfell<\/em>, the Court wait\u00aded&nbsp;<em>until<\/em>&nbsp;there was major\u00adi\u00adty sup\u00adport, which arrived, accord\u00ading to Gallup, in 2011, and the Court then val\u00adi\u00addat\u00aded a still-grow\u00ading soci\u00adetal con\u00adsen\u00adsus four years lat\u00ader.\u201d <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundthomist.org\/lowering-the-voting-age\">Low\u00ader\u00ading the Vot\u00ading Age<\/a> (J. Budziszews\u00adki, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cPeo\u00adple who dis\u00adcuss low\u00ader\u00ading the vot\u00ading age \u2013 not only those for it but also those against \u2013 assume that it would mean a trans\u00adfer of polit\u00adi\u00adcal influ\u00adence to the young. That is absurd.&nbsp;It would mean no such thing. Although the very young are often very sure of their opin\u00adions and con\u00advinced that they have made up their own minds, they lack the matu\u00adri\u00adty to form their minds inde\u00adpen\u00addent\u00adly.&nbsp;So to low\u00ader the vot\u00ading age would not mean increas\u00ading the polit\u00adi\u00adcal influ\u00adence of the young.&nbsp;It would only mean increas\u00ading the polit\u00adi\u00adcal clout of those who have influ\u00adence <em>through <\/em>the young.\u201d<ul><li>That\u2019s a real\u00adly good point I had\u00adn\u2019t con\u00adsid\u00adered. The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy and of gov\u00adern\u00adment at UT Austin.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/29\/us\/evangelical-churches-baptism.html?referringSource=articleShare\">Horse Troughs, Hot Tubs and Hash\u00adtags: Bap\u00adtism Is Get\u00adting Wild<\/a> (Ruth Gra\u00adham, New York Times): \u201cCon\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal bap\u00adtisms are often rau\u00adcous affairs. Instead of sub\u00addued hymns and mur\u00admurs, think roar\u00ading mod\u00adern wor\u00adship music, fist pumps, tears and bois\u00adter\u00adous cheer\u00ading. There are pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphers, self\u00adie sta\u00adtions and hash\u00adtags for social media. One church in Texas calls its reg\u00adu\u00adlar mass bap\u00adtism event a \u2018plunge par\u00adty.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<ul><li>This is an inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle most\u00adly for how inter\u00adest\u00ading utter\u00adly nor\u00admal things can seem to NY Times read\u00aders.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/projects\/2021\/rescuing-jessica-san-francisco-fentanyl-addiction\/\">She set out to save her daugh\u00adter from fen\u00adtanyl. She had no idea what she would face on the streets of San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco<\/a> (Heather Knight, San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco Chron\u00adi\u00adcle): \u201cI asked Jes\u00adsi\u00adca if she thought she would ever leave San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco. \u2018It\u2019s like a vor\u00adtex,\u2019 she said. \u2018I want to get out of here. But why the f\u2014 would I leave here if I have every\u00adthing I need giv\u00aden to me? It might be enabling or it might be keep\u00ading you in a cycle, but at least you can sur\u00advive,\u2019 she con\u00adtin\u00adued. \u2018That\u2019s bet\u00adter than a lot of places.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<ul><li> The wages of sin is death. What a gut-punch of a sto\u00adry.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/race-panic-stanford\/\">Race Pan\u00adic! Stan\u00adford inves\u00adti\u00adgates \u201ccords with loops that may rep\u00adre\u00adsent noos\u00ades\u201d<\/a> (Maxwell Mey\u00ader, Stan\u00adford Review): \u201cCall\u00ading out and address\u00ading racism? No, these Stan\u00adford admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors are com\u00admit\u00adted to <em>invent\u00ading<\/em> racism. Though, I must hand it to them: Dean Hicks and her \u2018insti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal equi\u00adty\u2019 side\u00adkick Mr. Dunk\u00adley might not real\u00adize it, but there is a beau\u00adti\u00adful, almost poet\u00adic irony to the tim\u00ading of their email. They rushed to inform Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents of an alleged race inci\u00addent on the very day that the crim\u00adi\u00adnal tri\u00adal of Jussie Smol\u00adlett, the great\u00adest of all race hoax\u00aders, began in Chica\u00adgo. That lit\u00adtle coin\u00adci\u00addence is the cher\u00adry on top of this giant farce.\u201d<ul><li>Mey\u00ader\u2019s take is, as far as I can tell, entire\u00adly cor\u00adrect. If those loops looked at all like noos\u00ades we\u2019d have pho\u00adtos.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wyss.harvard.edu\/news\/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce\/\">Team builds first liv\u00ading robots\u2014that can repro\u00adduce<\/a> (Joshua Brown, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Ver\u00admont press release): \u201cSome peo\u00adple may find this exhil\u00ada\u00adrat\u00ading. Oth\u00aders may react with con\u00adcern, or even ter\u00adror, to the notion of a self-repli\u00adcat\u00ading biotech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy. For the team of sci\u00aden\u00adtists, the goal is deep\u00ader under\u00adstand\u00ading.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/markusstrasser.org\/p\/bcd8bded-7136-4bb4-8f97-e8a3a7b6d926\/\">The Busi\u00adness of Extract\u00ading Knowl\u00adedge from Aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic Pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtions<\/a> (Markus Strass\u00ader, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cI had to wrap my head around the fact that close to <strong>noth\u00ading of what makes sci\u00adence actu\u00adal\u00adly work is pub\u00adlished as text on the web. <\/strong>Research ques\u00adtions that can be answered log\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly through just read\u00ading papers and con\u00adnect\u00ading the dots don\u2019t require a biotech corp to be formed around them. There\u2019s much less log\u00adic and deduc\u00adtion hap\u00adpen\u00ading than you\u2019d expect in a sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic dis\u00adci\u00adpline.\u201d <ul><li>Long and poor\u00adly for\u00admat\u00adted, but with an inter\u00adest\u00ading core idea. Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li><\/ul><\/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.reddit.com\/r\/interestingasfuck\/comments\/r58vbx\/adam_rainer_is_the_only_person_in_history_that\/\">Adam Rain\u00ader is the only per\u00adson in his\u00adto\u00adry that has been classed as a dwarf and a giant. In 1918, when Adam was 18 years old, his height was mea\u00adsured at 3\u2019 7.9\u201d tall. But by the time Adam was 31, his height had grown to a stag\u00adger\u00ading 7\u20321\u2033.<\/a> (Red\u00addit)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/morality\">Moral\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (SMBC): the author means this as a slam on the\u00adism, but I think his core insight is cor\u00adrect. He just points it in the wrong direc\u00adtion.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2021-12-01\">Hik\u00ading<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/laid-off-journalist-trying-to-learn-to-code-horrified-to-discover-the-code-is-binary\/\">Laid-Off Jour\u00adnal\u00adist Try\u00ading To Learn To Code Hor\u00adri\u00adfied To Dis\u00adcov\u00ader The Code Is Bina\u00adry<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2021\/12\/02\/stanford-divorce-pact-results-announced\/\">Stan\u00adford Divorce Pact results announced<\/a> (Sea\u00admus Allen, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cLuck\u00adi\u00adly, the Stan\u00adford Divorce Pact offers a bet\u00adter way. It match\u00ades you up with the least com\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adble per\u00adson on cam\u00adpus, so you can skip right to the bit\u00adter fight\u00ading and resent\u00adment.\u201d<\/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:\/\/twitter.com\/DrPJWilliams\/status\/1065768149541363713\">Elisha and the She\u2010bears<\/a> (Peter J Williams, Twit\u00adter): an insight\u00adful Twit\u00adter thread about a dis\u00adturb\u00ading OT sto\u00adry. The author is the War\u00adden of Tyn\u00addale House at Cam\u00adbridge. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-179\">vol\u00adume 179<\/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>Every\u00adthing from bap\u00adtisms to abor\u00adtion to per\u00adceived noos\u00ades. 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