• “Leverett is a small town of fewer than 2,000 residents in the western half of Massachusetts, not far from Amherst.” And this small town has municipal broadband that offers residents Gigabit Internet access for $75 a month.
I pay more than that to Comcast and they can’t match that speed. Tell me again that “government is the problem.”
And every time your Internet lags and sags and spins, please remember that this is anti-government, pro-corporate ideology at work.
• News item: “Webby Awards cuts ‘Religion & Spirituality’ category.”
RNS buries the lede there. The real headline news should be “Webby Awards Still Exist, Who Knew?”
• Here’s Frederick Robinson at R3 on the fear-driven religion that’s keeping Wheaton College in bondage.
The screen-shot to the right here is from the Chicago Tribune’s recent article on Wheaton’s ugly suspension of a tenured professor for her failure to be sufficiently Franklin Graham-like toward Muslims. It’s the paper’s auto-generated related stories sidebar for Wheaton College news, and it’s not a pretty picture.
Only that first item relates to any news the white evangelical college can be proud of — the only recent news about the school that reflects well on its Christian whiteness witness “For Christ and His Kingdom.” But that lone bit of good news has since been the subject of three press releases from Wheaton administrator’s reassuring the world that those students condemning Falwell don’t represent the whole college and that administrators will be cracking down to make sure those kids don’t get any further out of hand.
Firing dishonestly litigious president Philip Ryken wouldn’t completely unshit the bed for Wheaton at this point, but it might be a good start.
• Rose Marie Berger writes “(Almost) Everything I Know About Hell I Learned From ‘Buffy’,” which points out the lack of a biblical basis for the folklore of Hell as a fiery place of eternal torment and notes that nearly all of this so-called doctrine entered our theology from pop-culture, legends, and folk tales. So, yes, of course I’m linking to that.
• The Liar Tony Perkins joins professional fabulist David Barton and mendacious hate-monger Larry Pratt in supporting the candidacy of Texas Republican Ted Cruz.
Cruz apparently loves Pratt’s “Gun Owners of America” — which plays Even Worse Cop to the NRA’s Bad Cop. And, of course, you can’t support Pratt’s GOA without also endorsing his other organizations — “English First,” “U.S. Border Control” and “Committee to Protect the Family.” Please don’t assume from the names of those groups that they’re somewhat racist and xenophobic. They’re not. They’re extremely racist and xenophobic.
Memo to all those white “evangelical leaders frantically looking for ways to defeat Donald Trump“: Ted Cruz is even worse.
• My newly revised theory for the mysterious bright spots on Ceres: The alien spacecraft crashed there were transporting salt.
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