"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a genuine workers' state in which all the people are completely liberated from exploitation and oppression."--North Korea's official website. Well, that's good to know. I actually thought it was a soulless, homicidal kleptocracy run with all the competence of a Bulgarian farm commissar and without any regard for human value or decency. Oh, wait.
Mom is visiting the Kanes. They are planning to sell their Pittsburgh house and move to Florida permanently.
Slate has a big editorial on Joe Rogan and his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. It is Apple Podcasts’ second-most-downloaded podcast in both 2017 and 2018 and routinely sits near the top of Stitcher’s weekly most-popular-podcast rankings. The YouTube streams of the podcast draw millions of views from the young male demographic that has long made up the entertainment industry’s most coveted audience.
"Rogan’s podcast has become an important node in the “Intellectual Dark Web,” a loose network of “classical liberal” writers, scholars, and speakers who claim to have been marginalized by elitist progressives intent on maintaining identitarian orthodoxy. These people inveigh against political correctness and identity politics in publications like Quillette and on YouTube videos and one another’s podcasts. They claim to be personally liberal—like Rogan, they mostly all claim to “go left on everything”—even as they profess reactionary ideas. They take the fact that their theories and opinions are unpopular among their peers in academia and the media as proof that their peers are suppressive."
Slate is worried, superior and slightly obtuse. The problem here is not specific to any group, it is a pervasive broad and judgmental shallowness in a huge media that a large minority has no access to.
Are tattoos and piercings cultural appropriations?
Rescue helicopters were battling severe winds on Saturday to airlift more than 1,300 people off a Viking Cruises' ship that issued a distressed call after an engine failure off the coast of Norway.
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires that each administration report "the economic and programmatic assumptions" underlying a budget. The result is a database of every administration's growth forecasts released since 1975. Using this data, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) just released a report showing that this administration "is the first on record to have experienced economic growth that meets or exceeds its own forecasts in each of its first two years in office."
There is an article on the return of the night train, with sleeper cars.
Barbra Streisand said the children molested in "Neverland" “were thrilled to be there” and that what allegedly happened to them “didn’t kill them." Sometimes when there is a lot on your plate there is no room for reality.
Mom is visiting the Kanes. They are planning to sell their Pittsburgh house and move to Florida permanently.
Slate has a big editorial on Joe Rogan and his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. It is Apple Podcasts’ second-most-downloaded podcast in both 2017 and 2018 and routinely sits near the top of Stitcher’s weekly most-popular-podcast rankings. The YouTube streams of the podcast draw millions of views from the young male demographic that has long made up the entertainment industry’s most coveted audience.
"Rogan’s podcast has become an important node in the “Intellectual Dark Web,” a loose network of “classical liberal” writers, scholars, and speakers who claim to have been marginalized by elitist progressives intent on maintaining identitarian orthodoxy. These people inveigh against political correctness and identity politics in publications like Quillette and on YouTube videos and one another’s podcasts. They claim to be personally liberal—like Rogan, they mostly all claim to “go left on everything”—even as they profess reactionary ideas. They take the fact that their theories and opinions are unpopular among their peers in academia and the media as proof that their peers are suppressive."
Slate is worried, superior and slightly obtuse. The problem here is not specific to any group, it is a pervasive broad and judgmental shallowness in a huge media that a large minority has no access to.
Are tattoos and piercings cultural appropriations?
Rescue helicopters were battling severe winds on Saturday to airlift more than 1,300 people off a Viking Cruises' ship that issued a distressed call after an engine failure off the coast of Norway.
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires that each administration report "the economic and programmatic assumptions" underlying a budget. The result is a database of every administration's growth forecasts released since 1975. Using this data, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) just released a report showing that this administration "is the first on record to have experienced economic growth that meets or exceeds its own forecasts in each of its first two years in office."
There is an article on the return of the night train, with sleeper cars.
Barbra Streisand said the children molested in "Neverland" “were thrilled to be there” and that what allegedly happened to them “didn’t kill them." Sometimes when there is a lot on your plate there is no room for reality.
The U.S. posted its largest monthly budget deficit on record in February with a gap of $234 billion, breaking the previous $231.7 billion mark set in February 2012, Bloomberg reports. According to Treasury data released Friday, the deficit for the first five months of this fiscal year jumped to $544.2 billion — a 40% increase from the 2018 fiscal year — as corporate and individual tax revenues declined following President Trump's $1.5 trillion tax cut package. U.S. budget deficit grew by $113 billion in fiscal year 2018.
A survey of 2,000 Americans found that about half expressed fear of working out in front of others.
Wages of Sins
The gospel today has two unusual references to current affairs, one an attack on some Galileans in the Temple and the other, an industrial accident where a tower collapsed and killed eighteen. The former is especially interesting in that it apparently involved Pilate's raiding the Temple treasury for funds to build an aqueduct that appears again in the "renewed friendship" that Herod and Pilate show during the Crucifixion.
Christ's point is that earthly suffering, contrary to belief, was not experienced in response to spiritual failure. This idea of suffering on earth for your sins is a seemingly basic notion in us and even Christ could not defeat it. Even in the Middle Ages a husband could divorce his wife if she went mad not because of her madness but because her madness was assumed to be an affliction that she suffered because of some previous serious sin that devalued her.
Wages of Sins
The gospel today has two unusual references to current affairs, one an attack on some Galileans in the Temple and the other, an industrial accident where a tower collapsed and killed eighteen. The former is especially interesting in that it apparently involved Pilate's raiding the Temple treasury for funds to build an aqueduct that appears again in the "renewed friendship" that Herod and Pilate show during the Crucifixion.
Christ's point is that earthly suffering, contrary to belief, was not experienced in response to spiritual failure. This idea of suffering on earth for your sins is a seemingly basic notion in us and even Christ could not defeat it. Even in the Middle Ages a husband could divorce his wife if she went mad not because of her madness but because her madness was assumed to be an affliction that she suffered because of some previous serious sin that devalued her.
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