{"id":6778,"date":"2021-12-10T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T00:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T00:59:05","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/12\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-329","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 329"},"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 the 329th install\u00adment. 329 is, appar\u00adent\u00adly, the num\u00adber of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/Forest.html\">forests<\/a>&nbsp;(a type of graph) with 10 ver\u00adtices.<\/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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2021-12-4\/loving-lies\">Lov\u00ading Lies<\/a> (Bill Adair, Air Mail): \u201cInter\u00adview\u00ading Glass can be frus\u00adtrat\u00ading, because he frets so much about get\u00adting every detail right. He\u2019ll stop mid\u00adsen\u00adtence to pon\u00adder the month or day that some\u00adthing hap\u00adpened. Was that lunch in late 2014 or ear\u00adly 2015? He\u2019ll check. He knows he has a rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion as a liar and that he has already blown a life\u00adtime of cred\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<ul><li>Quite a sto\u00adry. You will need to pro\u00advide your email address to unlock it and it is 100% worth it.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/04\/style\/denzel-washington-man-on-fire.html?emc=edit_th_20211207&amp;nl=todaysheadlines\">Den\u00adzel Wash\u00ading\u00adton, Man on Fire<\/a> (Mau\u00adreen Dowd, New York Times): \u201cThe ene\u00admy is the inner me,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Bible says in the last days \u2014 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the last days, it\u2019s not my place to know \u2014 but it says we\u2019ll be lovers of our\u00adselves. The No. 1 pho\u00adto\u00adgraph today is a self\u00adie, \u2018Oh, me at the protest.\u2019 \u2018Me with the fire.\u2019 \u2018Fol\u00adlow me.\u2019 \u2018Lis\u00adten to me.\u2019 We\u2019re liv\u00ading in a time where peo\u00adple are will\u00ading to do any\u00adthing to get fol\u00adlowed. What is the long or short-term effect of too much infor\u00adma\u00adtion? It\u2019s going fast and it can be manip\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded obvi\u00adous\u00adly in a myr\u00adi\u00adad of ways. And peo\u00adple are led like sheep to slaugh\u00adter.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abigailshrier.substack.com\/p\/what-i-told-the-students-of-princeton\">What I told the stu\u00addents of Prince\u00adton<\/a> (Abi\u00adgail Shri\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c\u2026I want you to think for a moment about a young woman here at Prince\u00adton. She\u2019s a mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent ath\u00adlete named Ellie Mar\u00adquardt, an all-Amer\u00adi\u00adcan swim\u00admer who set an Ivy League record in the 500-meter freestyle event as a fresh\u00adman. Just before Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading, Ellie was defeat\u00aded in the 500-meter, the event she held the record in, by almost <strong>14 sec\u00adonds <\/strong>by a 22 year old bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal male at Penn who was com\u00adpet\u00ading on the men\u2019s team as recent\u00adly as Novem\u00adber of 2019. That male ath\u00adlete now holds <em>mul\u00adti\u00adple U.S. records in women\u2019s swim\u00adming<\/em>, eras\u00ading the hard work of so many of our best female ath\u00adletes, and mak\u00ading a mock\u00adery of the rights women fought for gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions to achieve.\u201d Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out\">Even on U.S. Cam\u00adpus\u00ades, Chi\u00adna Cracks Down on Stu\u00addents Who Speak Out<\/a> (Sebas\u00adt\u00adian Rotel\u00adla, ProP\u00adub\u00adli\u00adca): \u201cAs the regime of Chi\u00adnese Pres\u00adi\u00addent Xi Jin\u00adping reach\u00ades across bor\u00adders to con\u00adtrol its cit\u00adi\u00adzens wher\u00adev\u00ader they are, its assaults on aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic free\u00addom have inten\u00adsi\u00adfied, accord\u00ading to U.S. nation\u00adal secu\u00adri\u00adty offi\u00adcials, aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics, dis\u00adsi\u00addents and oth\u00ader experts. Chi\u00adnese intel\u00adli\u00adgence offi\u00adcers are mon\u00adi\u00adtor\u00ading cam\u00adpus\u00ades across the Unit\u00aded States with online sur\u00adveil\u00adlance and an array of infor\u00admants moti\u00advat\u00aded by mon\u00adey, ambi\u00adtion, fear or authen\u00adtic patri\u00ado\u00adtism. A com\u00adment in class about Tai\u00adwan or a speech at a ral\u00adly about Tibet can result in retal\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion against stu\u00addents and their rel\u00ada\u00adtives back home.\u201d<\/li><li>Polit\u00adi\u00adcal arti\u00adcles which caught my atten\u00adtion:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/07\/opinion\/trump-supreme-court-abortion-dobbs-roe.html\">I Couldn\u2019t Vote for Trump, but I\u2019m Grate\u00adful for His Supreme Court Picks<\/a> (Eri\u00adka Bachiochi, New York Times): \u201cMr. Trump\u2019s eco\u00adnom\u00adic pop\u00adulism (at least in rhetoric) blast\u00aded through the lib\u00ader\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan\u00adism that has tend\u00aded to dom\u00adi\u00adnate the G.O.P., a lib\u00ader\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan\u00adism that has made the party\u2019s alliance with pro-lif\u00aders one of strange bed\u00adfel\u00adlows indeed. If the G.O.P. wants to be of any rel\u00ade\u00advance in a post-Roe world \u2014 after all, with Roe gone, those sin\u00adgle-issue vot\u00aders will be free to look else\u00adwhere \u2014 it will have to offer the coun\u00adtry the matrix of eth\u00adnic diver\u00adsi\u00adty and eco\u00adnom\u00adic sol\u00adi\u00addar\u00adi\u00adty that Mr. Trump stum\u00adbled upon, but with\u00adout the divi\u00adsive\u00adness of the man him\u00adself.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/06\/hispanic-voters-latinx-term-523776\">Democ\u00adrats fall flat with \u2018Lat\u00adinx\u2019 lan\u00adguage<\/a> (Marc Caputo &amp;&nbsp;Sab\u00adri\u00adna Rodriguez<strong>, <\/strong>Politi\u00adco): \u201cThe num\u00adbers sug\u00adgest that using Lat\u00adinx is a vio\u00adla\u00adtion of the polit\u00adi\u00adcal Hip\u00adpo\u00adcrat\u00adic Oath, which is to first do no elec\u00adtoral harm,\u201d said Aman\u00addi, whose firm advised Barack Obama\u2019s suc\u00adcess\u00adful His\u00adpan\u00adic out\u00adreach nation\u00adwide in his two pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial cam\u00adpaigns. \u201cWhy are we using a word that is pre\u00adferred by only 2 per\u00adcent, but offends as many as 40 per\u00adcent of those vot\u00aders we want to win?\u201d Shared with me by a stu\u00addent well-suit\u00aded to assess this con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy.&nbsp;<\/li><li>[Stan\u00adford] <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2021\/12\/08\/senate-again-denies-mike-pence-event-funding-at-meeting-revoting-on-grants\/\">Sen\u00adate again denies Mike Pence event fund\u00ading at meet\u00ading revot\u00ading on grants<\/a> (Itzel Luna, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly):&nbsp; \u201cFive sen\u00ada\u00adtors vot\u00aded in favor of SCR\u2019s $6,000 fund\u00ading request to bring for\u00admer Vice Pres\u00adi\u00addent Mike Pence to cam\u00adpus in the win\u00adter quar\u00adter. Eight sen\u00ada\u00adtors abstained and no one vot\u00aded against the fund\u00ading which, accord\u00ading to the sen\u00ada\u00adtors, con\u00adsti\u00adtut\u00aded a fail\u00adure to receive major\u00adi\u00adty approval.\u201d This reads like a par\u00ado\u00addy of stu\u00addent gov\u00adern\u00adment.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/poll-political-polarization-students-a31e9888-9987-4715-9a2e-b5c448ed3e5a.html\">Young Dems more like\u00adly to despise the oth\u00ader par\u00adty<\/a> (Neal Roth\u00adschild, Axios): \u201c[Among col\u00adlege stu\u00addents,] 5% of Repub\u00adli\u00adcans said they would\u00adn\u2019t be friends with some\u00adone from the oppo\u00adsite par\u00adty, com\u00adpared to 37% of Democ\u00adrats. 71% of Democ\u00adrats would\u00adn\u2019t go on a date with some\u00adone with oppos\u00ading views, ver\u00adsus 31% of Republicans.30% of Democ\u00adrats \u2014 and 7% of Repub\u00adli\u00adcans \u2014 would\u00adn\u2019t work for some\u00adone who vot\u00aded dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly from them.\u201d<\/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.youtube.com\/watch?v=oiSn2JuDQSc\">A Star Trek Christ\u00admas Song<\/a> (YouTube): two min\u00adutes of nerdy good\u00adness<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2021\/12\/06\">Social Media<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RamsesThePigeon\/status\/1466168057676578818\">A Pedan\u00adtic Christ\u00admas Car\u00adol<\/a> (Twit\u00adter): a two and half minute video for gram\u00admar nerds<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R83udn2xAs\">How To Lose Friends In The South<\/a> (It\u2019s A South\u00adern Thing, YouTube): four hon\u00adest min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/nations-men-freaking-out-about-omicron-after-learning-symptoms-are-like-a-mild-cold\/\">Nation\u2019s Men Freak\u00ading Out About Omi\u00adcron After Learn\u00ading Symp\u00adtoms Are Like A Mild Cold<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DxySnnL6c1I\">Dan\u00adny Ray<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): eleven min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4-1a-hwuxM\">Why Are Black Peo\u00adple Stereo\u00adtyped for Lik\u00ading Chick\u00aden<\/a>? (Michael Che, YouTube): three min\u00adutes<\/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.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/is-christmas-a-pagan-rip-off\/\">Is Christ\u00admas a Pagan Rip-off?<\/a> (Kevin DeY\u00adoung, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201c\u2026what\u00adev\u00ader the Christ\u00admas hol\u00adi\u00adday has become today, it start\u00aded as a copy\u00adcat of well-estab\u00adlished pagan hol\u00adi\u00addays. If you like Christ\u00admas, you have Sat\u00adur\u00adna\u00adlia and Sol Invic\u00adtus to thank. That\u2019s the sto\u00adry, and every\u00adone from lib\u00ader\u00adal Chris\u00adtians to con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Chris\u00adtians to non-Chris\u00adtians seem to agree that it\u2019s true. Except that it isn\u2019t.\u201d From <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/12\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-280\">vol\u00adume 280<\/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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