{"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><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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 329th installment. 329 is, apparently, the number of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/Forest.html\">forests<\/a>&nbsp;(a type of graph) with 10 vertices.<\/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\">Loving Lies<\/a> (Bill Adair, Air Mail): \u201cInterviewing Glass can be frustrating, because he frets so much about getting every detail right. He\u2019ll stop midsentence to ponder the month or day that something happened. Was that lunch in late 2014 or early 2015? He\u2019ll check. He knows he has a reputation as a liar and that he has already blown a lifetime of credibility.\u201d<ul><li>Quite a story. You will need to provide your email address to unlock it and it is 100% worth&nbsp;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\">Denzel Washington, Man on Fire<\/a> (Maureen Dowd, New York Times): \u201cThe enemy 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 ourselves. The No. 1 photograph today is a selfie, \u2018Oh, me at the protest.\u2019 \u2018Me with the fire.\u2019 \u2018Follow me.\u2019 \u2018Listen to me.\u2019 We\u2019re living in a time where people are willing to do anything to get followed. What is the long or short-term effect of too much information? It\u2019s going fast and it can be manipulated obviously in a myriad of ways. And people are led like sheep to slaughter.\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 students of Princeton<\/a> (Abigail Shrier, Substack): \u201c\u2026I want you to think for a moment about a young woman here at Princeton. She\u2019s a magnificent athlete named Ellie Marquardt, an all-American swimmer who set an Ivy League record in the 500-meter freestyle event as a freshman. Just before Thanksgiving, Ellie was defeated in the 500-meter, the event she held the record in, by almost <strong>14 seconds <\/strong>by a 22 year old biological male at Penn who was competing on the men\u2019s team as recently as November of 2019. That male athlete now holds <em>multiple U.S. records in women\u2019s swimming<\/em>, erasing the hard work of so many of our best female athletes, and making a mockery of the rights women fought for generations to achieve.\u201d Emphasis in original.<\/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. Campuses, China Cracks Down on Students Who Speak Out<\/a> (Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica): \u201cAs the regime of Chinese President Xi Jinping reaches across borders to control its citizens wherever they are, its assaults on academic freedom have intensified, according to U.S. national security officials, academics, dissidents and other experts. Chinese intelligence officers are monitoring campuses across the United States with online surveillance and an array of informants motivated by money, ambition, fear or authentic patriotism. A comment in class about Taiwan or a speech at a rally about Tibet can result in retaliation against students and their relatives back&nbsp;home.\u201d<\/li><li>Political articles which caught my attention:<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 Grateful for His Supreme Court Picks<\/a> (Erika Bachiochi, New York Times): \u201cMr. Trump\u2019s economic populism (at least in rhetoric) blasted through the libertarianism that has tended to dominate the G.O.P., a libertarianism that has made the party\u2019s alliance with pro-lifers one of strange bedfellows indeed. If the G.O.P. wants to be of any relevance in a post-Roe world \u2014 after all, with Roe gone, those single-issue voters will be free to look elsewhere \u2014 it will have to offer the country the matrix of ethnic diversity and economic solidarity that Mr. Trump stumbled upon, but without the divisiveness of the man himself.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/06\/hispanic-voters-latinx-term-523776\">Democrats fall flat with \u2018Latinx\u2019 language<\/a> (Marc Caputo &amp;&nbsp;Sabrina Rodriguez<strong>, <\/strong>Politico): \u201cThe numbers suggest that using Latinx is a violation of the political Hippocratic Oath, which is to first do no electoral harm,\u201d said Amandi, whose firm advised Barack Obama\u2019s successful Hispanic outreach nationwide in his two presidential campaigns. \u201cWhy are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent, but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?\u201d Shared with me by a student well-suited to assess this controversy.&nbsp;<\/li><li>[Stanford] <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\/\">Senate again denies Mike Pence event funding at meeting revoting on grants<\/a> (Itzel Luna, Stanford Daily):&nbsp; \u201cFive senators voted in favor of SCR\u2019s $6,000 funding request to bring former Vice President Mike Pence to campus in the winter quarter. Eight senators abstained and no one voted against the funding which, according to the senators, constituted a failure to receive majority approval.\u201d This reads like a parody of student government.<\/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 likely to despise the other party<\/a> (Neal Rothschild, Axios): \u201c[Among college students,] 5% of Republicans said they wouldn\u2019t be friends with someone from the opposite party, compared to 37% of Democrats. 71% of Democrats wouldn\u2019t go on a date with someone with opposing views, versus 31% of Republicans.30% of Democrats \u2014 and 7% of Republicans \u2014 wouldn\u2019t work for someone who voted differently from&nbsp;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 Christmas Song<\/a> (YouTube): two minutes of nerdy goodness<\/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 Pedantic Christmas Carol<\/a> (Twitter): a two and half minute video for grammar 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 Southern Thing, YouTube): four honest minutes<\/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 Freaking Out About Omicron After Learning Symptoms Are Like A Mild Cold<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DxySnnL6c1I\">Danny Ray<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): eleven minutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4-1a-hwuxM\">Why Are Black People Stereotyped for Liking Chicken<\/a>? (Michael Che, YouTube): three minutes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/is-christmas-a-pagan-rip-off\/\">Is Christmas a Pagan Rip-off?<\/a> (Kevin DeYoung, Gospel Coalition): \u201c\u2026whatever the Christmas holiday has become today, it started as a copycat of well-established pagan holidays. If you like Christmas, you have Saturnalia and Sol Invictus to thank. That\u2019s the story, and everyone from liberal Christians to conservative Christians to non-Christians 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\">volume 280<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. 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