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In the World

Links? Links.

By Steve Thorngate
July 27, 2012
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Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about:

  • The Nones are on the rise again.
  • The Muppets for the marriage-equality win
  • "How I lost my fear of Universal Health Care"
  • "Aaron Sorkin fires writing staff that probably wasn’t writing The Newsroom in the first place"
  • Sen. McCain slaps down the Islamophobes
  • The better Ross Douthat
  • Why voter fraud almost never happens
  • "‘Suburban’ is not the same as ‘theologically conservative’"
  • "The Most Insane Letter Ever Written By A Child To A TV Weatherman"
  • Some advice on speed-reading
  • My favorite from the popular pastorin' Tumblr
  • "Poverty in the 50 years since ‘The Other America,’ in five charts"
  • "How Do You Talk About Black Unemployment Without Talking About Government Jobs?"
  • "A Black Theology of 'America The Beautiful'"
  • "What Happened to Romney’s “Evangelical Problem”? | Religion & Politics"
  • "Why you need the Septuagint"
  • "FAQ: The 'Snake Fight' Portion Of Your Thesis Defense"

 

Links are also posted throughout the day in the right-hand sidebar of my main blog page and in this feed.

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