I could not hear you at all

• Throws like a girl: “Female pitcher leads Philly’s Taney Dragons to Little League World Series.”

Looking for highlights from that game I found something even cooler on YouTube. Here’s that young pitcher, Mo’Ne Davis, getting pitching advice from Mamie “Peanut” Johnson. Johnson pitched for three years in the Negro Leagues, going 33-8 for the Indianapolis Clowns. She also hit .273.

• The Myers-Briggs personality test is meaningless, but still very lucrative. (To which someone invariably replies, “Of course you’d say that, that’s just such an INTJ thing to say.” I’ve been told the same thing about my oh-so Gemini skepticism of astrology.)

• “Dissidents, like prophets, get little love in their native lands,” Molly Crabapple writes. And, “Empires love their dissidents foreign.” And what Crabapple notes of nations and empires is equally true for sects and churches.

• Laura Leonard of Christianity Today says that the portrayal of Christian inmates on Orange Is the New Black is a crude, incoherent stereotype. Ex-con Susan K. disagrees:

They got that particular stereotype nailed. The methed-out hillbilly. God, those girls used to just set my teeth on edge. They were this pack of barefoot morons, straight from the f–king holler, you know? And they were all super religious, except they apparently had this new chapter in the Bible that told them to hate black people. And Latinas. And oh my God, they hated the white girls who acted black. …

• Quentin Pair: The GAO “found that three out of four waste facilities were sited in African American communities or poor communities, and that the single most determining factor in the results was race, while income was second.”

• Jeffrey Goldberg does his best to create an Obama/Hillary-rift narrative on foreign policy by pushing Clinton to discuss an informal Obama slogan — “Don’t do stupid [stuff]” — as though it were the “Obama Doctrine.” Clinton didn’t take the bait, but this serves as another example of that sleazy maneuver we discussed recently: Attacking something that is necessary by complaining that it isn’t sufficient.

Yes, of course, “DDSS” can’t be the be-all and end-all sole principle in decision-making. But surely it’s an unimpeachably wise starting point. Last I checked, prudence was still listed among the virtues.

Again, it’s weird to see something so elemental and essential being criticized. Goldberg is, in effect, arguing “Do do stupid [stuff].” That is, by definition, a stupid thing to argue.

• China plans to follow America’s example:

China will construct a “Chinese Christian theology” suitable for the country, state media reported on Thursday, as both the number of believers and tensions with the authorities are on the rise.

… “Over the past decades, the Protestant churches in China have developed very quickly with the implementation of the country’s religious policy,” the paper quoted Wang Zuoan, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, as saying.

“The construction of Chinese Christian theology should adapt to China’s national condition and integrate with Chinese culture.”

We have already constructed an American Christian theology adapted to America’s national condition and integrated with American culture, but apparently the dismal results of that project weren’t enough to discourage China from trying the same thing.