{"id":7475,"date":"2024-07-05T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:05:10","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/07\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-460","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 460"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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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

This is vol\u00adume 460, a large\u00adly unin\u00adter\u00adest\u00ading num\u00adber. It\u2019s a mul\u00adti\u00adple of 23, so I guess that\u2019s kin\u00adda cool (for a cer\u00adtain def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion of cool).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Your Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal Right to Be a Pirate<\/a> (A.J. Jacobs, The Free Press): \u201cIt may not get much pub\u00adlic\u00adi\u00adty, but there it is, smack-dab in Arti\u00adcle I, Sec\u00adtion 8 of the Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion: Con\u00adgress has the pow\u00ader to grant cit\u00adi\u00adzens \u2018let\u00adters of mar\u00adque and reprisal.\u2019 Mean\u00ading that, with Congress\u2019s per\u00admis\u00adsion, pri\u00advate cit\u00adi\u00adzens can load weapons onto their fish\u00ading boats, head out to the high seas, cap\u00adture ene\u00admy ves\u00adsels, and keep the booty. Back in the day, these patri\u00adot\u00adic pirates were known as \u2018pri\u00adva\u00adteers.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. the Pen\u00adta\u00adteuch in brief out\u00adline<\/a> (Alan Jacobs, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cAs Robert Alter has point\u00aded out, the long-time obses\u00adsion with sources<\/em> among schol\u00adars of the Hebrew Bible \u2014 their slight\u00adly mad-eyed teas\u00ading out of the con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtions of their posit\u00aded authors J, E, D, and P \u2014 led them to the assump\u00adtion that \u2018the redac\u00adtors were in the grip of a kind of man\u00adic trib\u00adal com\u00adpul\u00adsion, dri\u00adven again and again to include units of tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal \u2026 for rea\u00adsons they them\u00adselves could not have explained.\u2019 Yet if that were true, why does an out\u00adline of the Pen\u00adta\u00adteuch look so order\u00adly<\/em> \u2014 indeed, almost exces\u00adsive\u00adly so?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Codger-in-Chief<\/a> (Dan Drezn\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c[We are see\u00ading] cov\u00ader\u00adage that bears more of a pass\u00ading resem\u00adblance to what I saw dur\u00ading the Tod\u00addler-in-Chief days. In oth\u00ader words, there are some dis\u00adturb\u00ading par\u00adal\u00adlels in how Biden\u2019s staffers are talk\u00ading about him to the press when com\u00adpared to Trump\u2019s White House staffers. Fur\u00adther\u00admore, I strong\u00adly sus\u00adpect the staffers now talk\u00ading to the press are high\u00ader-rank\u00ading than, say, the deputy direc\u00adtor of pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphy.\u201d \n