{"id":6808,"date":"2022-01-21T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T01:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2022-01-21T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T01:33:08","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/01\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-335","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 335"},"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 335. The num\u00adber 335 is pret\u00adty cool because it is divis\u00adi\u00adble by the num\u00adber of primes below it (335 = 67 \u00c2\u00b7 5, and <a href=\"https:\/\/miniwebtool.com\/first-n-prime-numbers\/?number=67\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/miniwebtool.com\/first-n-prime-numbers\/?number=67\">there are 67 primes less than 335<\/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><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/january-web-only\/john-macarthur-russell-moore-religious-freedom-hell.html\">No, Reli\u00adgious Free\u00addom Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Send Peo\u00adple to Hell<\/a> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cReli\u00adgious free\u00addom is a restric\u00adtion on the pow\u00ader of the state to set itself up as a medi\u00ada\u00adtor between God and human\u00adi\u00adty. It is not an affir\u00adma\u00adtion of idol\u00ada\u00adtry, just as say\u00ading, \u2018The gov\u00adern\u00adment shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take your baby away and raise your chil\u00addren\u2019 is not an affir\u00adma\u00adtion of bad par\u00adent\u00ading. Say\u00ading par\u00adents should raise their chil\u00addren, instead of the gov\u00adern\u00adment, does not mean everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s par\u00adent\u00ading is good.\u201d<\/li><li>About iden\u00adti\u00adty issues<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theupheaval.substack.com\/p\/no-the-revolution-isnt-over?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjMwOTAxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NzI1NjMwMSwiXyI6IkJUWTBPIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQyNTI2MzYyLCJleHAiOjE2NDI1Mjk5NjIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMzA3OTYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.rTZx9L80GWk29iQVQw9FhN1Kp6ZN76B3XrFysArUTBs\">No, the Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Over<\/a> (N.S. Lyons, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn what is rapid\u00adly becom\u00ading one of my pre\u00adferred expla\u00adna\u00adtions for the Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion, the evo\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary anthropologist\/mathematician\/prophet of doom Peter Turchin has iden\u00adti\u00adfied \u2018elite over\u00adpro\u00adduc\u00adtion\u2019 as hav\u00ading been one of the top dri\u00advers of rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion and civ\u00adil con\u00adflict through\u00adout his\u00adto\u00adry. He points to the ten\u00adden\u00adcy for deca\u00addent soci\u00adeties to pro\u00adduce far more overe\u00add\u00adu\u00adcat\u00aded elites than there are elite-lev\u00adel jobs, lead\u00ading to large num\u00adbers of under\u00adem\u00adployed, resent\u00adful elite-class intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals of the type who tend pine after the posi\u00adtion and sta\u00adtus they \u2018deserve\u2019 and even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly start spend\u00ading their free time start\u00ading rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary cells.\u201d <ul><li>This is long and full of insight. And very, very spicy. I have no idea who the author is \u2014 N.S. Lyons is a pen name for a DC area ana\u00adlyst with exper\u00adtise in the Chi\u00adnese Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty. I assume he finds the pen name nec\u00ades\u00adsary to pro\u00adtect his pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion when he writes about Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cul\u00adture. Did I men\u00adtion it was spicy?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-trans-movement-is-not-about-rights-67e\">The Trans Move\u00adment Is Not About Rights Any\u00admore<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThis week, the writer Col\u00adin Wright posed on Twit\u00adter the fol\u00adlow\u00ading ques\u00adtion: \u2018What rights do trans peo\u00adple cur\u00adrent\u00adly not have but want that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t involve replac\u00ading bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal sex with one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sub\u00adjec\u00adtive \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgender iden\u00adti\u00adty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?\u2019 And the response was, of course, crick\u00adets. The truth is: the 6\u20133 <em>Bostock<\/em> deci\u00adsion places trans peo\u00adple in every state under the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion of the Civ\u00adil Rights Act of 1964. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s built on the stur\u00addy pro\u00adhi\u00adbi\u00adtion on sex dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion. A Trump nom\u00adi\u00adnee wrote the rul\u00ading. What the trans move\u00adment is now doing, after this com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive vic\u00adto\u00adry, is not about rights at all. It is about cul\u00adtur\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jordan-peterson-why-i-am-no-longer-a-tenured-professor-at-the-university-of-toronto\">Why I am no longer a tenured pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Toron\u00adto<\/a> (Jor\u00addan Peter\u00adson, Nation\u00adal Post): \u201cMy stu\u00addents are also part\u00adly unac\u00adcept\u00adable pre\u00adcise\u00adly because they are my stu\u00addents. I am aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic per\u00adsona non gra\u00adta, because of my unac\u00adcept\u00adable philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal posi\u00adtions. And this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just some incon\u00adve\u00adnience. These facts ren\u00addered my job moral\u00adly unten\u00adable. How can I accept prospec\u00adtive researchers and train them in good con\u00adscience know\u00ading their employ\u00adment prospects to be min\u00adi\u00admal?\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/being-jewish-in-an-unraveling-america?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NzIzMTY0NCwiXyI6InVDNGJ3IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQyNDM1NTExLCJleHAiOjE2NDI0MzkxMTEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNjAzNDciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.7jr4DskJiFgTsyjk_N3CDceRTQ8qHZU0G6dChBEdY7Q\">Being Jew\u00adish in an Unrav\u00adel\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adca<\/a> (Bari Weiss, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe bad guy was killed. The good guys were saved. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t often turn out that way. All the Jews I know\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven the atheists\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare thank\u00ading God.\u00c2&nbsp; But why, despite my grat\u00adi\u00adtude, do I feel so much rage? Why does it feel like there is so lit\u00adtle com\u00adfort to be found? What has changed? I did not feel this way in the hor\u00adrif\u00adic after\u00admath of the Tree of Life massacre\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe most lethal in all of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Jew\u00adish his\u00adto\u00adry.\u2026 What I now see is this: In Amer\u00adi\u00adca cap\u00adtured by trib\u00adal\u00adism and dehu\u00adman\u00adiza\u00adtion, in an Amer\u00adi\u00adca swept up by ide\u00adolo\u00adgies that pit us against one anoth\u00ader in a zero-sum game, in an Amer\u00adi\u00adca enthralled with the poi\u00adso\u00adnous idea that some groups mat\u00adter more than oth\u00aders, not all Jews\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand not all Jew\u00adish victims\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare treat\u00aded equal\u00adly. What seems to mat\u00adter most to media pun\u00addits and politi\u00adcians is not the Jews them\u00adselves, but the iden\u00adti\u00adties of their attack\u00aders. And it scares me.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronrenn.substack.com\/p\/newsletter-60-the-pro-life-movements?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NzAyNTY4NiwiXyI6InVDNGJ3IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQyNDI5NDE0LCJleHAiOjE2NDI0MzMwMTQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNTY3NiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.58m4qkFzS2eXdGvxtIAHFMfvGFNlKNZ-eTh_hzQvPis\">The Pro-Life Move\u00admen\u00adt\u2019s Moral Dou\u00adble\u00ads\u00adpeak<\/a> (Aaron Renn, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cBut the mod\u00adern Chris\u00adt\u00adian church has put forth a fake real\u00adi\u00adty in which women are almost always the vic\u00adtim except in rare, extreme cas\u00ades. They seem inca\u00adpable of admit\u00adting that women who abort their babies know what they are doing. They can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring them\u00adselves to even acknowl\u00adedge that women ini\u00adti\u00adate about 70% of all divorces. When pas\u00adtors write entire books about mar\u00adriage and nev\u00ader once men\u00adtion the basic and well known fact that women file for the vast major\u00adi\u00adty of divorces \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s every Chris\u00adt\u00adian mar\u00adriage book I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever read \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seri\u00adous peo\u00adple. They jus\u00adti\u00adfy and excuse almost any female behav\u00adior, and even twist real\u00adi\u00adty to some\u00adhow blame men for it.\u201d There are sev\u00ader\u00adal uncom\u00adfort\u00adable insights in this essay.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/17\/world\/asia\/china-births-demographic-crisis.html\">China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Births Hit His\u00adtoric Low, a Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Prob\u00adlem for Bei\u00adjing<\/a> (Steven Lee Myers and Alexan\u00addra Steven\u00adson, New York Times): \u201cThe num\u00adber of births fell to 10.6 mil\u00adlion in 2021, com\u00adpared with 12 mil\u00adlion the year before, accord\u00ading to fig\u00adures report\u00aded on Mon\u00adday by the Nation\u00adal Bureau of Sta\u00adtis\u00adtics. That was few\u00ader even than the num\u00adber in 1961, when the Great Leap For\u00adward, Mao Zedong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eco\u00adnom\u00adic pol\u00adi\u00adcy, result\u00aded in wide\u00adspread famine and death.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/write.as\/harold-lee\/theres-a-phrase-going-around-that-you-should-buy-experiences-not-things?pk_campaign=rss-feed\">Buy Things, Not Expe\u00adri\u00adences<\/a> (Harold Lee, per\u00adson\u00adal blog):\u00c2&nbsp; \u201c\u2026the focus on min\u00adi\u00admal\u00adism sounds like a new form of con\u00adspic\u00adu\u00adous con\u00adsump\u00adtion. Now that even the poor can afford mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal goods, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s den\u00adi\u00adgrate goods while high\u00adlight\u00ading the remain\u00ading lux\u00adu\u00adries that only the afflu\u00adent can enjoy and show off to their friends.\u201d<ul><li>This is a short, well-argued con\u00adtrar\u00adi\u00adan take. Stuff like this is cat\u00adnip to me.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>About the pan\u00addem\u00adic:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/315952\/hong-kongers-rebel-against-order-to-hand-over-hamsters.html\">Hong Kongers Rebel Against Order to Hand Over Ham\u00adsters<\/a> (Rob Quinn, News\u00ader): \u201cAfter a woman and 11 ham\u00adsters in the pet shop she worked in test\u00aded pos\u00adi\u00adtive for COVID, author\u00adi\u00adties said Tues\u00adday that any\u00adbody who bought a ham\u00adster on or after Dec. 22 should hand it in to be euth\u00ada\u00adnized. But while the ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adry gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly has a high lev\u00adel of com\u00adpli\u00adance with COVID orders, the ham\u00adster order was wide\u00adly seen as a step too far\u2026\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/14\/opinion\/covid-america.html?smid=tw-share\">To Fight Covid, We Need to Think Less Like Doc\u00adtors<\/a> (Aaron E. Car\u00adroll, New York Times): \u201cCar\u00ading for an indi\u00advid\u00adual and pro\u00adtect\u00ading a pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion require dif\u00adfer\u00adent pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adties, prac\u00adtices and ways of think\u00ading. While it may sound coun\u00adter\u00adin\u00adtu\u00aditive, to heal the coun\u00adtry and put our Covid-19 response on the right track, we need to think less like doc\u00adtors.\u201d The author is both a physi\u00adcian and also the chief health offi\u00adcer at Indi\u00adana Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timharford.com\/2022\/01\/omicron-optimist-pessimist-or-fatalist-which-are-you\/\">Omi\u00adcron opti\u00admist, pes\u00adsimist or fatal\u00adist \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which are you?<\/a> (Tim Har\u00adford, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cIs this the point at which we should shrug our shoul\u00adders and give up? Omi\u00adcron has prompt\u00aded three kinds of reac\u00adtion: opti\u00admism, pes\u00adsimism and fatal\u00adism.\u2026 What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s con\u00adfus\u00ading is that all three views may be right. Omi\u00adcron is quite plau\u00adsi\u00adbly mild, cat\u00ada\u00adstroph\u00adic and inevitable all at once.\u201d The author is a British economist.\u00c2&nbsp;<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/315952\/hong-kongers-rebel-against-order-to-hand-over-hamsters.html\">Lying About Covid For \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInternational Har\u00admony\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cInch by painful inch, the truth is being dragged out about how this pan\u00addem\u00adic start\u00aded. It is just about under\u00adstand\u00adable, if not for\u00adgiv\u00adable, that Chi\u00adnese sci\u00aden\u00adtists have obfus\u00adcat\u00aded vital infor\u00adma\u00adtion about ear\u00adly cas\u00ades and their work with sim\u00adi\u00adlar virus\u00ades in Wuhan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adries: they were sub\u00adject to fierce edicts from a ruth\u00adless, total\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan regime. It is more shock\u00ading to dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00c2&nbsp;in emails released this week\u00c2&nbsp;that some west\u00adern sci\u00aden\u00adtists were also say\u00ading dif\u00adfer\u00adent things in pub\u00adlic from what they thought in pri\u00advate.\u201d Con\u00adtains excerpts from a pay\u00adwalled arti\u00adcle.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/progressives-must-reckon-with-the-school-closing-catastrophe.html\">School Clo\u00adsures Were a Cat\u00ada\u00adstroph\u00adic Error. Pro\u00adgres\u00adsives Still Haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Reck\u00adoned With It<\/a>. (Jonathan Chait, NY Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cIt is always eas\u00adi\u00ader to diag\u00adnose these patholo\u00adgies when they are tak\u00ading place on the oth\u00ader side. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve prob\u00ada\u00adbly seen the raft of papers show\u00ading how vac\u00adcine uptake cor\u00adre\u00adlates with Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic vot\u00ading and COVID deaths cor\u00adre\u00adlate with Repub\u00adli\u00adcan vot\u00ading. Per\u00adhaps you have mar\u00adveled at the spec\u00adta\u00adcle of Repub\u00adli\u00adcan elites active\u00adly harm\u00ading their own audi\u00adence. But the same thing Fox News hosts were doing to their elder\u00adly sup\u00adport\u00aders, pro\u00adgres\u00adsive activists were doing to their side\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s young ones.\u201d It may not be obvi\u00adous, but this arti\u00adcle dove\u00adtails very nice\u00adly with the Dreher arti\u00adcle about elites not being truth\u00adful and not reck\u00adon\u00ading with mis\u00adtakes.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0147596721000767\">The long-term effects of protes\u00adtant activ\u00adi\u00adties in Chi\u00adna<\/a> (Yuyu Chen, Hui Wang, Se Yan, Jour\u00adnal of Com\u00adpar\u00ada\u00adtive Eco\u00adnom\u00adics): \u201cOur find\u00adings imply that late-nine\u00adteenth- and ear\u00adly-twen\u00adti\u00adeth-cen\u00adtu\u00adry Protes\u00adtant mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies pio\u00adneered that mod\u00adern\u00adiza\u00adtion move\u00adment by dis\u00adsem\u00adi\u00adnat\u00ading, along with Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, West\u00adern sci\u00adence and tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy to even the most remote regions of Chi\u00adna. Such efforts accel\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded the pace of mod\u00adern\u00adiza\u00adtion, con\u00adtributed to the accu\u00admu\u00adla\u00adtion of human cap\u00adi\u00adtal, and reshaped the social val\u00adues of local peo\u00adple. Although these his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal lega\u00adcies of mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 under\u00adtak\u00adings were sup\u00adpressed dur\u00ading the Cul\u00adtur\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion, they rapid\u00adly resurged and began to con\u00adtribute to socioe\u00adco\u00adnom\u00adic devel\u00adop\u00adments when Chi\u00adna began to open up and reform.\u201d The authors appear to be schol\u00adars at Peking Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/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=Ea3fHpprcJ4\">Greg Davies shows off his MULTILINGUAL skills<\/a> (Would I Like To You?, YouTube): four min\u00adutes. Sev\u00ader\u00adal years old but I had for\u00adgot\u00adten it.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/christian-questioning-faith-after-receiving-wrong-order-at-chick-fil-a\/\">Chris\u00adt\u00adian Ques\u00adtions Faith After Receiv\u00ading Wrong Order At Chick-Fil\u2011A<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2022\/01\/15\">Wak\u00ading Up<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2022-01-16\">Win\u00adning Debates<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vtJGZlMwjvA\">Exclu\u00adsive Inter\u00adview: With a Face\u00adbook Fact Check\u00ader<\/a> (John Crist, YouTube): three min\u00adutes. Not con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly fun\u00adny, but amus\u00ading enough to be includ\u00aded<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/san-francisco-walgreens-introduces-new-frequent-looter-rewards-punch-card\/\">San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco Wal\u00adgreens Intro\u00adduces New Fre\u00adquent Loot\u00ader Rewards Punch Card<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/high-school-loser-doesnt-even-have-any-mental-illnesses\/\">Healthy High School Kid Fakes Men\u00adtal Ill\u00adness So He Can Fit In With Every\u00adone Else<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee) \u2014 the URL slug is slight\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent and also fun\u00adny.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/san-francisco-store-clerk-confused-when-shopper-tries-to-pay-for-merchandise\/\">San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco Store Clerk Con\u00adfused As Shop\u00adper Actu\u00adal\u00adly Tries To Pay For Mer\u00adchan\u00addise<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nF7nb8oLq1c\">A Teenage Magi\u00adcian<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): ten min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mD1K8HgF6V4\">A Cam\u00adera Trick<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): eight and half min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X_k-mZQ3f_Q\">A Cere\u00adal Trick<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): sev\u00aden and a half 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:\/\/medium.com\/s\/losing-my-religion\/jesus-mary-and-joe-jonas-605c763ce682?platform=hootsuite\">Jesus, Mary, and Joe Jonas<\/a> (Jonathan Parks\u00e2\u20ac\u0090Ramage, Medi\u00adum): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How, in famous\u00adly lib\u00ader\u00adal Hol\u00adly\u00adwood and among sta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly pro\u00adgres\u00adsive mil\u00adlen\u00adni\u00adals, had good old\u00e2\u20ac\u0090fashioned evan\u00adge\u00adlism [sic] gained pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty? In this con\u00adtext, a church like Real\u00adi\u00adty L.A. seemed like some\u00adthing that could nev\u00ader work. But that evening, as I reflect\u00aded on the trou\u00adbled actress and the psy\u00adchic bru\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adties inflict\u00aded by the enter\u00adtain\u00adment indus\u00adtry, it occurred to me that I had under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admat\u00aded Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest prod\u00aduct: lost souls.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-192\">First shared in vol\u00adume 192<\/a>\u00c2&nbsp;<\/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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153who under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I agree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I dis\u00adagree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until I can say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I under\u00adstand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 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>spici\u00ader con\u00adtent than nor\u00admal \u2014 you have been warned<\/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":"This week I've stumbled upon spicier content than normal. Just a heads up.","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":[121,131,259,125,270,228,113,275,138,247],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abortion","tag-academia","tag-antisemitism","tag-china","tag-divorce","tag-identity","tag-lgbtq","tag-pandemic","tag-religious-freedom","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1LO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","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=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6810,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}