{"id":7005,"date":"2022-09-09T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:57:53","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-367","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/09\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-367","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 367"},"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 367<sup>th<\/sup> install\u00adment, notable because 367 is a prime num\u00adber and also the largest num\u00adber whose square is com\u00adposed of strict\u00adly increas\u00ading dig\u00adits: 367<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;= 134689.<\/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\" href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/p\/socialism-nationalism-and-tolkien\" target=\"_blank\">Social\u00adism, Nation\u00adal\u00adism, and Tolkien<\/a>&nbsp;(Alec Dent, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cIn our time of unprece\u00addent\u00aded wealth and safe\u00adty, the once-defeat\u00aded foe of illib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism has made a reap\u00adpearence.\u2026 due large\u00adly to a lack of appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion for how good we have things right now, a lack of under\u00adstand\u00ading of how we got here, and a lack of under\u00adstand\u00ading of how a rad\u00adi\u00adcal over\u00adhaul of soci\u00adety would alter the world as we know it.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/latest\/the-despotism-of-isaias-afewerki-de-waal?utm_source%3Drss-feed%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dfeed\" target=\"_blank\">The Despo\u00adtism of Isa\u00adias Afew\u00ader\u00adki<\/a>&nbsp;(Alex de Waal, The Baf\u00adfler): \u201c\u2026fight\u00aders protest\u00aded the deci\u00adsion that they should con\u00adtin\u00adue to serve with\u00adout pay for two more years. A group of dis\u00adabled vet\u00ader\u00adans marched\u2014there\u2019s no verb that con\u00adveys the deter\u00admined col\u00adlec\u00adtive motion of their wheel\u00adchairs, arti\u00adfi\u00adcial limbs, and sticks\u2014towards the cap\u00adi\u00adtal to demand their pen\u00adsions. They were shot at with live ammu\u00adni\u00adtion. Some were killed, oth\u00aders were arrest\u00aded and dis\u00adap\u00adpeared.\u201d<ul><li>I\u2019d heard before that Eritrea was worse than North Korea in some ways, but this arti\u00adcle real\u00adly drove it home. Wow.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/why-people-are-losing-faith-in-public-institutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Peo\u00adple Are Los\u00ading Faith In Pub\u00adlic Insti\u00adtu\u00adtions<\/a>&nbsp;(Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201c\u2026if you relied on the Post to tell you about the world you actu\u00adal\u00adly live in, it would not have occurred to you that there is any oth\u00ader side to the library sto\u00adry than the vir\u00adtu\u00adous pink-haired queer librar\u00adi\u00adan and her allies ver\u00adsus the mob of big\u00adots. If you are on the Left, isn\u2019t it in your inter\u00adest to under\u00adstand why peo\u00adple are so upset, even if you don\u2019t agree with them? Isn\u2019t it in your inter\u00adest to at least think about why the peo\u00adple of a town would rather defund their library rather than see it used in this way?\u201d <ul><li>This one is wild and Dreher, as they say, has the receipts.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundthomist.org\/can-an-atheist-be-a-moral-realist\" target=\"_blank\">Can an Athe\u00adist Be a Moral Real\u00adist?<\/a>&nbsp;(J. Budziszews\u00adki, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c\u2026I can\u2019t see how you can be an athe\u00adist and a moral real\u00adist at the same time. It is like eat\u00ading a cake and still hav\u00ading it. If nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adism is true, then aren\u2019t we just meat bags full of water with no dig\u00adni\u00adty? My friend says I am car\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtur\u00ading his posi\u00adtion. Am I miss\u00ading some\u00adthing, or is he?\u201d<ul><li>This is well argued. The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of gov\u00adern\u00adment and phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Texas.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/09\/01\/michael-gerson-evangelical-christian-maga-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump should fill Chris\u00adtians with rage. How come he doesn\u2019t<\/a>? (Michael Ger\u00adson, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cI know that peo\u00adple inspired by [Jesus] have done great things in the past \u2014 build\u00ading hos\u00adpi\u00adtals for the poor, improv\u00ading the rights of women and chil\u00addren, mil\u00adi\u00adtat\u00ading against slav\u00adery, car\u00ading for the men\u00adtal\u00adly dis\u00adabled, work\u00ading for a mer\u00adci\u00adful wel\u00adfare state, fight\u00ading prej\u00adu\u00addice, improv\u00ading glob\u00adal health. But pre\u00adcise\u00adly because these things have hap\u00adpened, it is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult for me to com\u00adpre\u00adhend why so many Amer\u00adi\u00adcan evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals have reject\u00aded the splen\u00addor and romance of their call\u00ading and set\u00adtled for the cul\u00adtur\u00adal and polit\u00adi\u00adcal resent\u00adments of the hard right.\u201d<ul><li>Long and a bit ram\u00adbly, nonethe\u00adless inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thecritic.co.uk\/publishing-needs-jk-rowling-to-be-a-monster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pub\u00adlish\u00ading needs JK Rowl\u00ading to be a mon\u00adster<\/a>&nbsp;(Vic\u00adto\u00adria Smith, The Crit\u00adic Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cThe trou\u00adble with JK Rowl\u00ading is that she has done noth\u00ading wrong. Back in 2020, she wrote a care\u00adful\u00adly word\u00aded, com\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adate piece about sex and gen\u00adder.\u2026 This is a sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion in which the pun\u00adish\u00adment has cre\u00adat\u00aded the crime and it\u2019s one that is need\u00aded by mem\u00adbers of the pub\u00adlish\u00ading indus\u00adtry who have spent years embrac\u00ading the argu\u00adments of the most extreme trans activists while ignor\u00ading those of fem\u00adi\u00adnists. They need Rowl\u00ading to be a mon\u00adster. Oth\u00ader\u00adwise they might have to respond, not just to what Rowl\u00ading has writ\u00adten, but to the real\u00adi\u00adties of the move\u00adment to which they have pledged alle\u00adgiance.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2022\/september\/obit-queen-elizabeth-ii-personal-faith-christian-bible.html\" target=\"_blank\">Died: Queen Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth II, British Monarch Who Put Her Trust in God<\/a>&nbsp;(Dud\u00adley Delffs, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThe Queen\u2019s love of the Bible and its gospel mes\u00adsage led to her par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion in the pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion of a spe\u00adcial book to com\u00admem\u00ado\u00adrate her 90th birth\u00adday. Titled&nbsp;<em>The Ser\u00advant Queen and the King She Serves<\/em>.\u2026 Her Majesty per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly wrote the fore\u00adword, thank\u00ading read\u00aders for their prayers and good wish\u00ades. \u2018I have been\u2014and remain\u2014very grate\u00adful to \u2026 God for His stead\u00adfast love. I have indeed seen His faith\u00adful\u00adness,\u2019 she wrote. The book was dis\u00adtrib\u00aduted to thou\u00adsands of church\u00ades across the UK and through\u00adout many Com\u00admon\u00adwealth coun\u00adtries pri\u00ador to the Queen\u2019s birth\u00adday in 2016. The book proved so pop\u00adu\u00adlar that the Bible Soci\u00adety had to print anoth\u00ader 150,000 copies to meet demand.\u201d<\/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\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2022\/09\/05\" target=\"_blank\">Infla\u00adtion<\/a>&nbsp;(Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-eating-cereal-out-of-flower-vase-wondering-if-he-should-do-dishes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man Eat\u00ading Cere\u00adal Out Of Flower Vase Won\u00adder\u00ading If He Should Do Dish\u00ades<\/a>&nbsp;(Baby\u00adlon Bee) \u2014 appro\u00adpri\u00adate for some of you over the sum\u00admer<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2022-09-03\" target=\"_blank\">Peo\u00adple Who Are Bet\u00adter Than You<\/a>&nbsp;(Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/after-second-failed-launch-nasa-decides-to-scrap-artemis-program-and-just-fake-another-moon-landing\/\" target=\"_blank\">After Sec\u00adond Failed Launch, NASA Decides To Scrap Artemis Pro\u00adgram And Just Fake Anoth\u00ader Moon Land\u00ading<\/a>&nbsp;(Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2668\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis Quote<\/a>&nbsp;(xckd) \u2014 this would be amaz\u00ading <\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q3LuZeekVX4\" target=\"_blank\">This is the most inter\u00adest\u00ading roof in Lon\u00addon.<\/a>&nbsp;(Tom Scott, YouTube): six min\u00adutes. The video does not dis\u00adap\u00adpoint.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VZAqP_chzfU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Tuto\u00adri\u00adals<\/a>&nbsp;(Corey Rodrigues, YouTube): five 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:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2020\/01\/big-datasmall-bias.html\">Big Data+Small Bias \u00ab Small Data+Zero Bias<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cSup\u00adpose you want to esti\u00admate who will win the 2016 US Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial elec\u00adtion. You ask 2.3 mil\u00adlion poten\u00adtial vot\u00aders whether they are like\u00adly to vote for Trump or not. The sam\u00adple is in all ways demo\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive of the US vot\u00ading pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion but poten\u00adtial Trump vot\u00aders are a tiny bit less like\u00adly to answer the ques\u00adtion, just .001 less like\u00adly to answer (note they don\u2019t lie, they just don\u2019t answer).\u201d I was stunned. From <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-234\">vol\u00adume 234<\/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:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. This is the 367th install\u00adment, notable because 367 is a prime num\u00adber and also the largest num\u00adber whose \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/09\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-367\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 367\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/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":"Links to delight, entrance, and inform you. 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