{"id":60231,"date":"2015-11-28T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=60231"},"modified":"2015-11-27T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T01:12:00","slug":"weekly-meanderings-28-november-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2015\/11\/28\/weekly-meanderings-28-november-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings, 28 November 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/40\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-11.39.23-AM.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-60256\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/40\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-11.39.23-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-25 at 11.39.23 AM\" width=\"445\" height=\"361\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2015\/11\/24\/there-are-no-black-angels-in-heaven\/?postshare=8031448419696662&amp;tid=ss_tw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Lisa Sharon Harper<\/strong><\/a>, and a white angel Christmas:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">After a full day of work I went to Union Station to run errands. I stopped in the Christmas store to buy a gift for my niece. They had a wall full of beautiful ballerina angel ornaments. None of the adult ones I wanted were black. I asked the store manager for help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cExcuse me, ma\u2019am,\u201d I said, \u201cdo you carry black ballerinas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry, we don\u2019t,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">I explained, \u201cI want to buy a ballerina for my niece who loves to dance, but I can\u2019t buy a white one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve tried,\u201d she said. \u201cBlack ballerinas are so rare. They just keep telling me they don\u2019t have them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">I asked, \u201cEven with Misty Copeland?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Her jaw dropped. She was silent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">She brought me over to a wall where they did have two ornaments with a black little girl dancing. She wasn\u2019t an angel, but it was close enough. Still, it was all too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">As she showed me all five black ornaments in a store\u00a0<em>dedicated\u00a0<\/em>to ornaments, tears filled my eyes and began to spill over. We are not wanted in this world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musefinds.com\/AnAfroKinStore\/BlackFigurines\/Angels1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Image<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Sharon: we have a black angel atop our tree.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/inspired-life\/wp\/2015\/11\/25\/the-amazing-journey-that-is-bringing-these-homeless-singers-to-the-white-house\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Colby Itkowitz<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cThe life of a homeless person is very, very solitary,\u201d Noonan said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re a music minister your job is to use music to lift people up. I knew I was pretty decent at doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">It\u2019s been three years since Noonan started the Atlanta Homeward Choir, a group of homeless men who sing together Tuesday and Thursday evenings before the shelter opens. They\u2019ve performed before local audiences, but this Christmas they\u2019ve been invited to entertain guests at a very special venue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">The White House. President Barack Obama\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">The Monday before Christmas, 19 homeless men will gather in the opulent East Wing entrance hall to sing for people touring the festively-decorated grand residence. They\u2019re planning to belt out Leonard Cohen\u2019s Hallelujah, Nat King Cole\u2019s The Christmas Song, and other holiday standards like Silent Night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Some are veterans. Others are recovered drug addicts. There are former inmates estranged from family. Some have never left Atlanta, let alone flown on an airplane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cFor me, just the idea of going inside the White House is completely insane,\u201d Noonan said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how I feel. Can you imagine how the guys in the choir feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">They are not the same as the Syrian refugees, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rweb\/world\/anne-frank-and-her-family-were-also-denied-entry-as-refugees-to-the-us\/2015\/11\/24\/2e9fe50cedf227628d1bd997708d791f_story.html?wpisrc=nl_draw2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Anne Frank and her family were not accepted as refugees to the USA<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Many have noted the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/11\/19\/yes-the-comparison-between-jewish-and-syrian-refugees-matters\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">historical parallels<\/a>\u00a0between the current debate over Syrians seeking refuge in the United States and the plight of European Jews fleeing German-occupied territories on the eve of World War II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Among the many who tried \u2014 and failed \u2014 to escape Nazi persecution: Otto Frank and his family, which included wife, Edith, and his daughters, Margot and Anne. And while the story of the family\u2019s desperate attempts ending in futility may seem remarkable today, it\u2019s emblematic of what a number of other Jews fleeing German-occupied territories experienced, American University history professor Richard Breitman\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yivo.org\/cimages\/richardbreitman-ottofrank-whitepaper.pdf?c=\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote in 2007<\/a>\u00a0upon the discovery of documents chronicling the Franks\u2019 struggle to get U.S. visas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/dr-everett-piper-a-man-among-boys\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>See this?<\/strong><\/a> [Extreme? Yes. Symptomatic? Yes.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/27\/world\/asia\/indonesia-islam-nahdlatul-ulama.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Joe Cochrane<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"461\" data-total-count=\"1474\">\u201cThe spread of a shallow understanding of Islam renders this situation critical, as highly vocal elements within the Muslim population at large \u2014 extremist groups \u2014 justify their harsh and often savage behavior by claiming to act in accord with God\u2019s commands, although they are grievously mistaken,\u201d said A. Mustofa Bisri, the spiritual leader of the group,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Its website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.or.id\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nahdlatul Ulama<\/a>, an Indonesian Muslim organization that claims more than 50 million members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"184\" data-total-count=\"1658\">\u201cAccording to the Sunni view of Islam,\u201d he said, \u201cevery aspect and expression of religion should be imbued with love and compassion, and foster the perfection of human nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"353\" data-total-count=\"2011\">This message of tolerance is at the heart of the group\u2019s campaign against jihadism, which will be carried out online, and in hotel conference rooms and convention centers from North America to Europe to Asia. The film was released Thursday at the start of a three-day congress by the organization\u2019s youth wing in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"222\" data-total-count=\"2233\">As world leaders call for Muslims to take the lead in the ideological battle against a growing and increasingly violent offshoot of their own religion, analysts say the group\u2019s campaign is a welcome antidote to jihadism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"277\" data-total-count=\"2510\">\u201cI see the counternarrative as the only way that Western governments can deal with the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org decorated-link\" style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/a\/al_qaeda_in_mesopotamia\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ISIS<\/a>\u00a0propaganda, but there\u2019s no strategy right now,\u201d said Nico Prucha, a research fellow at King\u2019s College London, who analyzes the Islamic State\u2019s Arab-language online propaganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"181\" data-total-count=\"2691\">And Western leaders often lack credibility with those most susceptible to jihad\u2019s allure. \u201cThey don\u2019t speak Arabic or have never lived in the Muslim world,\u201d Mr. Prucha said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"181\" data-total-count=\"2691\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rweb\/wildcard\/as-temperatures-rise-the-melting-of-glaciers-is-accelerating\/2015\/11\/26\/469d7f50-897c-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html?wpisrc=nl_draw2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Glacier thaw<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The river of ice that hugs Mount Grinnell\u2019s high ridges is neither big nor particularly beautiful, but it may be the most accessible glacier in all of North America. In as little as three hours, an average hiker can traverse the mountain\u2019s well-groomed trail to plant a foot on a frozen relic of the Little Ice Age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\" style=\"color: #000000;\">But if you want to see it, you\u2019d better hurry. Grinnell Glacier is disappearing \u2014 fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\">This crescent-shaped glacier in Montana\u2019s northern Rockies had been contracting for decades because of warming temperatures. Lately it has been shrinking at a breathtaking clip, losing as much as a 10th of its mass in a single year. As early as 2030, scientists say, it may no longer exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\">The glacier\u2019s steep decline mirrors that of hundreds of other U.S. glaciers, from California\u2019s Sierra Nevada to the North Cascades to the Central Alaska Range. All are in retreat, yet nowhere are the effects so profoundly felt as here in Glacier National Park, which experts say could be glacier-free by mid-century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sanitized_html paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019ll be gone in a few decades,\u201d said Dan Fagre, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who monitors the park\u2019s 25 remaining glaciers and plots each year\u2019s losses. \u201cEvery year exposes rock that hasn\u2019t seen daylight in centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fats are not all alike \u2013 or bad for your health, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/11\/24\/9782098\/dietary-fat-saturated-fat-good-or-bad\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Julia Belluz<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\">University of Auckland researcher\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4f7177;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz\/en\/soph\/about\/our-research\/research-activities\/article-rod-jackson.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rod Jackson\u00a0<\/a>put all the current science on dietary fat in perspective. \u201cThe original message was to eat less saturated fat, which got dumbed down to, \u2018Eat less fat,'\u201d he says. That was misguided. \u201cBut,\u201d he adds, \u201cthis latest craze to eat\u00a0<i>more<\/i>\u00a0fat is an equally bad message. The evidence actually says replace saturated fat with unsaturated fat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\">In other words: Ignore the latest hype and magazine covers. Fat isn\u2019t bad. But certain types of fat are better for health than others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\">Marion Nestle goes even further. \u201cThe science hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d she says. \u201cBut we need to move away from nutrients because nobody understands what they are and it\u2019s not how people eat.\u201d In other words, nutritionists should stop saying things like \u201ceat more fat\u201d or \u201ceat less carbs\u201d and instead focus on what types of\u00a0<i>foods\u00a0<\/i>to eat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\">Nestle points out that all foods with fat contain some mixture of the three types and that you can\u2019t separate a conversation about fat from talk of food and calories. \u201cPeople eat food, not nutrients,\u201d she said. And if you\u2019re getting too much energy from food, you\u2019ll gain weight and be worse off no matter what you\u2019re eating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\">She also noted that the Japanese have great health outcomes, as do some Mediterranean countries and many other places in between \u2014 very different societies with vastly different diets. \u201cAs far as I can tell,\u201d she added, \u201cthe common thread through all of this is Michael Pollan\u2019s haiku: \u2018Eat food, mostly plants, not too much.\u2019 When people eat healthier diets they do better, and it doesn\u2019t have anything to do with how much carbohydrate or protein or fat they ate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\">HT: LNMM<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/2015\/11\/18\/super-bowl-100-no-stadium?xid=si_social\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Jeff Beckham<\/strong><\/a>, on the obscenity of new stadiums and their shelf life:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #2f343b;\">Not long after the Dallas\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 900; color: #d8272d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/team\/dallas-cowboys\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0debuted the NFL\u2019s largest video board at their new stadium in 2009, the Houston\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 900; color: #d8272d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/team\/houston-texans\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Texans<\/a>\u00a0rolled out an even bigger screen. Then the Jacksonville\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 900; color: #d8272d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/team\/jacksonville-jaguars\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0went even bigger at their new venue, throwing in an in-stadium swimming pool as a bonus. The building of NFL stadiums has become an arms race, but architect Dan Meis is calling for a de-escalation. Maybe, he says, the future of stadiums means less is more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2f343b;\">Meis knows first-hand what that arms race looks like. His company,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 900; color: #d8272d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meisstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">MEIS Architects<\/a>, has offices in New York and Los Angeles, and he designed two current NFL stadiums:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 900; color: #d8272d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bengals.com\/stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul Brown Stadium<\/a>\u00a0in Cincinnati and\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 900; color: #d8272d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lincolnfinancialfield.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lincoln Financial Field<\/a>\u00a0in Philadelphia. He\u2019s also been among the architects to submit ideas for new venues in Los Angeles and San Diego. But no matter how many NFL owners light up at the thought of a 70,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof and seats that vibrate when the action on the field gets intense, Meis wants to push in the opposite direction. He believes the future looks smaller, more durable, and more versatile. Think Subaru Outback, not Maybach. [Think Wrigley, eh?]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/24\/technology\/proposed-regulations-for-drones-are-released.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Cecilia Kang<\/strong><\/a>, on drones:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"105\" data-total-count=\"105\">Drones, those remote-controlled flying machines, are expected to top many wish lists this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"84\" data-total-count=\"189\">Now those who open those gifts will most likely need to tell the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"415\" data-total-count=\"604\">On Monday, the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/f\/federal_aviation_administration\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>, scurrying to prepare for hundreds of thousands of more drones flying into the air, released a list of recommendations for how to better monitor recreational use of the machines. Under the proposal, most drone owners would have to register the machines with the federal government, which would place the information in a national database, the first such requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"305\" data-total-count=\"909\">The recommendations, from a task force created by the agency, would be the biggest step yet by the government to deal with the proliferation of recreational drones, which are usually used for harmless purposes but have also been tools for mischief and serious wrongdoing, and pose a risk to airborne jets.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"119\" data-total-count=\"1028\">The\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org decorated-link\" style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/f\/federal_aviation_administration\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">F.A.A.<\/a>\u00a0is widely expected to approve the bulk of the recommendations in the next month, just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #4c4e4d;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2015\/11\/24\/man-prison-rape-convictions-cleared-dna-testing-after-16-years\/76300404\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>I see minority injustice, how about you?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A California man who spent 16 years behind bars for\u00a0sexual assault convictions was cleared on Monday after DNA evidence linked the crimes to another man.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Ryan exonerated Luis Vargas after DNA evidence linked the crimes to the so-called \u201cteardrop rapist,\u201d who is suspected of more than 30 rapes in the\u00a0Los Angeles area\u00a0since 1996\u00a0and has never been identified,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1990e5;\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/e94023c7c09c4f9f8e1128f57672388d\/man-convicted-3-rapes-expected-be-exonerated\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AP reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The teardrop rapist gained his nickname for a teardrop tattoo under his eye. The rapist was known for grabbing his victims and threatening them with a weapon before pulling them into a secluded area and raping them, the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1990e5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-teardrop-rapist-man-exonerated-prison20151123-story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas, lived near the area where several assaults took place and\u00a0was misidentified as the rapist because of a similar teardrop tattoo, according to the\u00a0<em>Times.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, he was sentenced to 55 years in prison for three sexual assaults, but as he sat behind bars\u00a0the rapes continued, the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1990e5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-teardrop-rapist-man-exonerated-prison20151123-story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas, who has maintained his innocence, reached out to lawyers and students at theCalifornia Innocence Project\u00a0at\u00a0California Western School of Law. He told them he believed the teardrop rapist committed the assaults of which\u00a0he was convicted, according to AP. The group took up Vargas\u2019 case in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Warriors, by <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-the-golden-state-warriors-are-breaking-the-nba\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Kirk Goldsberry<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">The first time I saw my boss, Nate Silver, give a talk was at the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. As usual, he was going on about numbers and statistics, but what stuck with me longest wasn\u2019t quantitative. Pointing to the practice of\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #008fd5;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Promotion_and_relegation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">relegation<\/a>\u00a0in European soccer leagues,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #008fd5;\" href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2014\/02\/nate-silver-american-sports-are-socialist\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">he said<\/a>\u00a0European sports tend to be more capitalist by nature, while their American counterparts tend to be more socialist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cIt\u2019s kind of ironic,\u201d Silver said. \u201cAmerican sports are socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">That may be true, but Stephen Curry is a pure basketball capitalist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Nate\u2019s framework was right: With provisions like \u201csalary caps,\u201d \u201crevenue sharing\u201d and drafts that generally allot the best new talent to the worst teams, American leagues intentionally promote parity while suppressing the natural tendency for some clubs to dominate others. But Curry and his teammates are unapologetically destroying Adam Silver\u2019s Bolshevist basketball state. The Golden State Warriors are 15-0. If they win Tuesday against the lowly Los Angeles Lakers, they will break the record for the hottest start in NBA history; no NBA team has won its first 16 games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">How are they doing this?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Sharon Harper, and a white angel Christmas: After a full day of work I went to Union Station to run errands. I stopped in the Christmas store to buy a gift for my niece. They had a wall full of beautiful ballerina angel ornaments. None of the adult ones I wanted were black. 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