In the World Posts for November, 2011

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A brave and wise Penn State student

Nov 10, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

The young man in this video should be a source of some small pride for Penn State right now.

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Links? Links.

Nov 09, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.

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What Jon Huntsman is willing to say

Nov 09, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

A good point from James Fearon: A while back, Jon Hunstman talked to David Weigel about his serious love for Captain Beefheart, a recording artist about five clicks too polarizingly odd for most presidential candidates (of either party) to admit to ever having even heard.

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"The church has not posed any theory in that regard."

Nov 08, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

The Catholic bishops' media-relations director: "While the general population has debated whether it's nurture or nature that leads to a homosexual inclination, the church has not posed any theory in that regard."

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"God helps those" helps Obama

Nov 04, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

I'm all for biblical literacy. I think it's embarrassing when the White House press secretary publicly misattributes a proverb to the Bible, especially when it's such a classic of the Bible-misattribution genre: "God helps those who help themselves."

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Links? Links.

Nov 04, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Here are some thing I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.

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Ben Dueholm in our pages and others'

Nov 03, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

In a Century article published this week, Benjamin Dueholm explains why politicians of Michele Bachmann's ilk do well in the swing states of the upper Midwest. He starts with the fact that Bachmann and Garrison Keillor are from the same small Minnesota town.

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Links? Links.

Nov 02, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Now that I'm posting on a solo blog again, I'm going to start including the occasional link-roundup post separately from the "new today" digests of Century content.

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Highlights from my Facebook wall's Occupy preoccupation

Nov 02, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

This video started making the rounds last week, presenting a clever idea for communicating with the big banks at their expense.