{"id":7540,"date":"2024-11-08T19:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T03:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2024-11-08T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T03:07:35","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-477","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-477","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 477"},"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\" 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 width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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>\n\n    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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li>Some post-elec\u00adtion analy\u00adsis, with the reminder that I do not endorse every\u00adthing I share. I share them because they made me think.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Amaz\u00ading quote from the Stan\u00adford Review: <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/its-time-for-stanford-to-accept-president-donald-trump-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It\u2019s Time For Stan\u00adford to Accept Pres\u00adi\u00addent Don\u00adald Trump (Again)<\/a> (Edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal, Stan\u00adford Review): \u201cStan\u00adford stu\u00addents often for\u00adget to con\u00adsid\u00ader that the world around them votes too\u2014and that the world does not have the same con\u00adcerns. As one peer remarked, \u2018I found out some of the din\u00ading hall staff vot\u00aded for Trump and lowkey for\u00adgot they got to vote too.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.konstantinkisin.com\/p\/10-reasons-you-didnt-see-this-coming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 Rea\u00adsons You Did\u00adn\u2019t See This Com\u00ading<\/a> (Kon\u00adstan\u00adtin Kisin, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcans are extreme\u00adly prac\u00adti\u00adcal peo\u00adple. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we pro\u00adduce great writ\u00aders and intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals. In Amer\u00adi\u00adca they pro\u00adduce (and attract) great engi\u00adneers, busi\u00adness\u00admen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump\u2019s rhetoric than you do and more about his poli\u00adcies than you do.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kisin is a Russ\u00adian-born immi\u00adgrant to Britain. Inter\u00adest\u00ading to see how at least one for\u00adeign\u00ader per\u00adceives the results US elec\u00adtion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/trump-post-christian-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don\u00adald Trump Is the Pres\u00adi\u00addent for Post-Chris\u00adt\u00adian Amer\u00adi\u00adca<\/a> (Aaron Renn, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIt\u2019s hard to com\u00adplain that he\u2019s crude when we live in a crude soci\u00adety and peo\u00adple like that way \u2014 except when it comes to him. In fact, com\u00adpared to the rest of the coun\u00adtry, Trump is a retro mod\u00adel of rec\u00adti\u00adtude when it comes to not drink\u00ading or doing drugs, hav\u00ading a relent\u00adless work eth\u00adic, wear\u00ading suits, etc.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/democrats-picked-the-wrong-womens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democ\u00adrats Picked the Wrong Women\u2019s Rights Issue<\/a> (Madeleine Kearns, The Free Press): \u201cDemoc\u00adrats bet big on \u2018repro\u00adduc\u00adtive rights\u2019 this elec\u00adtion cycle, even offer\u00ading free abor\u00adtions at their nation\u00adal con\u00adven\u00adtion. But the strat\u00ade\u00adgy didn\u2019t pay off. Not only was abor\u00adtion a flop with the elec\u00adtorate, it was Republicans\u2014not Democrats\u2014who pushed the win\u00adning women\u2019s\u2011rights issue: fight\u00ading the encroach\u00adment of bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal men into women\u2019s spaces and sports.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/how-a-latino-wave-carried-trump-to-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How a Lati\u00adno wave car\u00adried Trump to vic\u00adto\u00adry<\/a> (Daniel McCarthy, The Spec\u00adta\u00adtor): \u201cThe fact is that left-wing cul\u00adtur\u00adal atti\u00adtudes in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, and in the West as a whole, are them\u00adselves very \u2018Euro\u00adpean\u2019 and seem often irrel\u00ade\u00advant or repug\u00adnant to peo\u00adple of oth\u00ader cul\u00adtures and racial back\u00adgrounds. White pro\u00adgres\u00adsive Amer\u00adi\u00adcans think of their views as being uni\u00adver\u00adsal, but they are real\u00adly very spe\u00adcif\u00adic to their own group. White lib\u00ader\u00adals believe, for exam\u00adple, that mas\u00adculin\u00adi\u00adty is \u2018tox\u00adic\u2019 and the world needs more female lead\u00aders. They also believe that \u2018anti-racism\u2019 requires \u2018affir\u00adma\u00adtive action\u2019 or racial quotes to give blacks in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar more rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion in posi\u00adtions of pow\u00ader and pres\u00adtige. White lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism is the rea\u00adson Kamala Har\u00adris was named as Joe Biden\u2019s run\u00adning mate in 2020. She wasn\u2019t a pop\u00adu\u00adlar politi\u00adcian \u2013 and as this elec\u00adtion proved, she still isn\u2019t. But she was the right sex and colour to sat\u00adis\u00adfy the require\u00adments of white lib\u00ader\u00adals. Lati\u00adnos are not white lib\u00ader\u00adals.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/election-2024-voters-demographics-votecast-survey-5a21c604?mod=politics_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Dif\u00adfer\u00adent Groups Vot\u00aded in the 2024 Elec\u00adtion<\/a> (Bri\u00adan McGill, Antho\u00adny DeBar\u00adros and Caitlin Ostroff, Wall Street Jour\u00adnal): \u201cHere are the results of a sur\u00advey of over 120,000 reg\u00adis\u00adtered vot\u00aders, com\u00adpiled by the Asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded Press, which offer a look at vot\u00ading pat\u00adterns and trends among var\u00adi\u00adous groups in the elec\u00adtorate and what issues were the most impor\u00adtant to vot\u00aders head\u00ading into Elec\u00adtion Day. Num\u00adbers will update as respons\u00ades are added and the survey\u2019s weight\u00ading adjusts.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A LOT of graphs. One detail fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading detail: peo\u00adple who vot\u00aded for Trump were MORE con\u00adcerned that Kamala Har\u00adris would lead Amer\u00adi\u00adca in an author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan direc\u00adtion than the peo\u00adple who vot\u00aded for Har\u00adris were con\u00adcerned about Trump doing the same. It was tight, but the greater fear was of a Har\u00adris admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/07\/opinion\/trump-abortion-election-harris.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Could Trump and Abor\u00adtion Rights Both Win<\/a>? (Jill Fil\u00adipovic, New York Times): \u201cHow could sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant num\u00adbers of vot\u00aders cast their bal\u00adlots for legal abor\u00adtion and also for the man who helped make it pos\u00adsi\u00adble to crim\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adize abor\u00adtion in the first place? Mr. Trump boast\u00aded about over\u00adturn\u00ading Roe v. Wade and being the most pro-life pres\u00adi\u00addent in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan his\u00adto\u00adry, while Kamala Har\u00adris pledged to use her pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial pow\u00ader to pro\u00adtect and expand a broad range of repro\u00adduc\u00adtive free\u00addoms. Yet, accord\u00ading to the vote tal\u00adlies released so far, in every state where abor\u00adtion was up for a vote, more vot\u00aders cast those bal\u00adlots for abor\u00adtion rights than for Ms. Har\u00adris.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2024\/11\/prediction-markets-for-the-win.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pre\u00addic\u00adtion Mar\u00adkets for the Win<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cThe pre\u00addic\u00adtion mar\u00adkets pre\u00addict\u00aded the elec\u00adtion out\u00adcome more accu\u00adrate\u00adly and more quick\u00adly than polls or oth\u00ader fore\u00adcast\u00ading meth\u00adods, just as expect\u00aded from decades of research.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/congrats-to-polymarket-but-i-still\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Con\u00adgrats To Poly\u00admar\u00adket, But I Still Think They Were Mis\u00adpriced<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cWhy [do I think the mar\u00adket was mis\u00adpriced]? In order for an Amer\u00adi\u00adcan to use Poly\u00admar\u00adket, you have to get a VPN, a Coin\u00adbase account, and a Meta\u00admask wal\u00adlet, use the VPN, get cryp\u00adto on the Coin\u00adbase account, trans\u00adfer it to the Meta\u00admask wal\u00adlet, con\u00adnect the Meta\u00admask wal\u00adlet to Poly\u00admar\u00adket, and buy the shares you want. Abil\u00adi\u00adty to do this rules out 99% of the US pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion.\u2026 I think pre\u00addic\u00adtion mar\u00adkets are among our sin\u00adgle best sources of truth, but that (as with every source of truth) we need to think crit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly about them and notice the rare times when they fail. If you can\u2019t think crit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, you\u2019re going to have a hard time, but in that case I would <em>still<\/em> trust pre\u00addic\u00adtion mar\u00adkets over any oth\u00ader source (except Metac\u00adu\u00adlus, which is so sim\u00adi\u00adlar to a pre\u00addic\u00adtion mar\u00adket that it belongs in the same cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry any\u00adway).\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Inter\u00adest\u00ading con\u00adtrar\u00adi\u00adan take on the pre\u00addic\u00adtion mar\u00adket\u2019s suc\u00adcess in the elec\u00adtion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/women-pornography-church-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Women Use Pornog\u00adra\u00adphy and How the Church Can Help<\/a> (Helen Thorne-Allen\u00adson, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cThe biggest dri\u00adver of pornog\u00adra\u00adphy use among the women I\u2019ve met with is anx\u00adi\u00adety. Life feels over\u00adwhelm\u00ading at times; pornog\u00adra\u00adphy brings some relief\u2026 Maybe unsur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly, anoth\u00ader big dri\u00adver among the women I\u2019ve walked along\u00adside (par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly younger women) is a desire to know what sex is like.\u2026 The dri\u00adver we prob\u00ada\u00adbly miss most often in the church is that of man\u00adag\u00ading pain.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/be-perfect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Be Per\u00adfect<\/a> (Ross Byrd, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cIn the Bible, the word \u2018per\u00adfect\u2019 does\u00adn\u2019t mean what we tend to mean by it today. For the writ\u00aders of Scrip\u00adture, per\u00adfec\u00adtion has more to do with <em>fin\u00adished-ness <\/em>than flaw\u00adless\u00adness. A thing is called \u2018per\u00adfect\u2019 when it is brought to its full matu\u00adri\u00adty, when it becomes every\u00adthing it is meant to be. Now, if we apply this def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion to the Gar\u00adden of Eden, we are forced to con\u00adclude that <strong>Eden was not, in fact, per\u00adfect.<\/strong> Eden was good, as Gen\u00ade\u00adsis tells us over and over. He cre\u00adat\u00aded this and that, and it was good. He cre\u00adat\u00aded human beings, and it was very good. But it does\u00adn\u2019t say per\u00adfect. In a very impor\u00adtant sense, it was not yet per\u00adfect, because it was not yet com\u00adplete. Eden was the begin\u00adning. The gar\u00adden was, among oth\u00ader things, a place of poten\u00adtial.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal. I like the core insight in this essay a lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plough.com\/en\/topics\/justice\/politics\/religious-liberty\/why-were-still-atheists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why We\u2019re Still Athe\u00adists<\/a> (Kat\u00adja Hoy\u00ader, Plough): \u201cI, on the oth\u00ader hand, often won\u00addered even as a child what the point of life was if all you did is grow up, work, die, and be erased. When I lost rel\u00ada\u00adtives, friends, and pets, I knew I had lost them for\u00adev\u00ader, while oth\u00aders held out for some form of reunion in anoth\u00ader life or at least the idea that souls con\u00adtin\u00adued to exist some\u00adwhere. On an abstract lev\u00adel, I began to under\u00adstand why most of human\u00adi\u00adty finds com\u00adfort, sure\u00adty, and pur\u00adpose in reli\u00adgion. But by the time I worked this out, it was entire\u00adly an intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal mind game to me. I had grown up in a world that made sense with\u00adout God and noth\u00ading could change that now.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A very inter\u00adest\u00ading essay about why East Ger\u00admany is so athe\u00adist, writ\u00adten by an athe\u00adist reflect\u00ading on it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/are-religious-people-more-fearful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Are Reli\u00adgious Peo\u00adple More Fear\u00adful?<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cI am real\u00adly sur\u00adprised at how few of these fac\u00adtors actu\u00adal\u00adly \u2018pop\u2019 in this analy\u00adsis. That was true for things like income, age, mar\u00adi\u00adtal sta\u00adtus, view of the Bible, and reli\u00adgious impor\u00adtance. None of those had a mea\u00adsur\u00adable impact on the fear index. Also, I didn\u2019t find a sin\u00adgle fac\u00adtor that clear\u00adly led to high\u00ader lev\u00adels of expressed fear. How\u00adev\u00ader, there were four vari\u00adables in this analy\u00adsis that pre\u00addict\u00aded a low\u00ader score on the fear index. They were: being white, being male, hav\u00ading a high\u00ader lev\u00adel of edu\u00adca\u00adtion, and increased church atten\u00addance.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empha\u00adsis removed for read\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\/articles\/essay\/st-junipero-serra-an-unjustly-controversial-figure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St. Junipero Ser\u00adra: An Unjust\u00adly Con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial Fig\u00adure<\/a> (Bri\u00adan Gabriel, The Euro\u00adpean Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cIn present-day dis\u00adcourse, the actions of the mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies and the Span\u00adish sol\u00addiers are often con\u00adflat\u00aded, but the mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies\u2019 pater\u00adnal\u00adis\u00adtic atti\u00adtude toward the tribes actu\u00adal\u00adly often led them to pro\u00adtect the tribes from the more rapa\u00adcious and unsa\u00advory behav\u00adior of the sol\u00addiers. It\u2019s true enough that the tribes were some\u00adtimes forced to labor in the fields, and their free\u00addom of move\u00adment was restrict\u00aded once they con\u00advert\u00aded to Catholi\u00adcism. The mis\u00adsions them\u00adselves were often built in part, at least, by the tribes\u00admen, some\u00adtimes under duress. But the harsh treat\u00adment, while strik\u00ading the mod\u00adern observ\u00ader as cru\u00adel and tor\u00adtu\u00adous, was seen by the mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies as essen\u00adtial to the natives\u2019 spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal sal\u00adva\u00adtion. Today, many of their descen\u00addants remain Catholic. The val\u00adue of the mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies\u2019 actions can nev\u00ader be rec\u00adog\u00adnized by a mod\u00adern world that doesn\u2019t allow for spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal effects.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I have long believed, even as a very Protes\u00adtant per\u00adson, that Junipero Ser\u00adra has got\u00adten a bum rap in Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia (and at Stan\u00adford).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/rodney-alcala-the-dating-game-killer-survivor-true-story.html?itm_medium=site&amp;itm_source=order-form&amp;_gl=1*lbkp6*FPAU*MTY3NjYwMTc4OS4xNzMwODMyMDE5*_ga*MTU1NDA4Mjk1NS4xNzMwODMyMDE3*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*MTczMDgzMjAxNi4xLjEuMTczMDgzMjE3OS4wLjAuMzA0MDUzMzAx*_fplc*eVY4MlhxRkZST2RsaUZlYk5QOFJvZEtjJTJCQlJRU2oyOUZ4Znk2TDlaYzZ1d0FtYk5MMFBoVXo3WmFJVDdib29WQUd1cmoxYjM1Nlc4JTJGS1Y3bHBrTTZmNlE1TTRwRExMblk2dGhXZ1luUld4ekNZJTJGQVRLU09MaE9Jb1BjOWZRJTNEJTNE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod\u00adney Alcala Didn\u2019t Kill Me. Forty Years Lat\u00ader, I Asked Him Why<\/a> (Alice Feir\u00ading, New York Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cFour-decades-plus lat\u00ader, I learned his real name when it flashed across a tele\u00advi\u00adsion screen beneath his famil\u00adiar face and orange jump\u00adsuit: \u2018Rod\u00adney Alcala, <em>The Dat\u00ading Game<\/em> Ser\u00adi\u00adal Killer, Sen\u00adtenced to Death.\u2019 It couldn\u2019t be the same man, I\u2019d thought to myself. But after hours of Googling I had to accept the truth: Jon Burg\u00ader was an alias; he was the win\u00adning bach\u00ade\u00adlor on <em>The Dat\u00ading Game<\/em> nine years after I met him; and he is believed to have been one of the most pro\u00adlif\u00adic of ser\u00adi\u00adal killers, offi\u00adcial\u00adly respon\u00adsi\u00adble for at least sev\u00aden mur\u00adders with author\u00adi\u00adties esti\u00admat\u00ading his real body count at about 130.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent who says, \u201cVery well writ\u00adten, chill\u00ading sto\u00adry. The author is lucky to be alive.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/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=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to Do Action Com\u00ade\u00addy<\/a> (Every Frame a Paint\u00ading, YouTube): nine min\u00adutes about what makes Jack\u00adie Chan so great, and why his for\u00adeign films are bet\u00adter than his Amer\u00adi\u00adcan films in impor\u00adtant ways.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v6QF-sRdU9g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Har\u00advey Epstein for New York City Coun\u00adcil<\/a> (Sat\u00adur\u00adday Night Live, YouTube): two and a half min\u00adutes I found absolute\u00adly hilar\u00adi\u00adous. What\u2019s even fun\u00adnier is that it\u2019s about a real politi\u00adcian.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/textsfromsuperheroes.com\/post\/766085146582630400\/vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vote<\/a> (Texts From Super\u00adheroes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2024\/11\/03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Diet<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine) \u2014 actu\u00adal\u00adly, though<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>. 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