{"id":16621,"date":"2013-08-01T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=16621"},"modified":"2013-08-01T07:24:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:24:44","slug":"7-things-11-oclock-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/08\/01\/7-things-11-oclock-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"7 things @ 11 o’clock (8.1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

1.<\/strong> NPR\u2019s First Listen: Sam Phillips, \u201cPush Any Button.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> \u201cLike Santa for Your Vagina<\/a>\u201d \u2014 this ad for tampon subscription service Hello Flo is getting a lot of attention. The service itself makes a lot of sense too.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>3.\u00a0<\/strong>Joel L. Watts<\/a> points out the irony of Gentile Christians who use Romans 1:26-27 as a clobber verse against LGBT Christians, given that it\u2019s part of Paul\u2019s summary of the view he\u2019s disagreeing with in order to set up his own fierce argument that anyone who would condemn\u00a0Those People<\/em> is thereby condemning themself. Alas, Watts\u2019 plea to stop misusing this passage as a clobber verse will likely go unheeded because: A) he uses words like \u201cprotreptic,\u201d which makes him a pointy-headed intellectual and therefore probably can be classified as a liberal who can be safely ignored; and B) the folks who want to use Romans 1:26-27 as a clobber text don\u2019t really care what any passage means<\/em>, only how it can be used<\/em>.<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> The feud between Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Republican Gov. Chris Christie is getting nasty<\/a>. I suppose Paul thinks calling Christie the \u201cKing of Bacon\u201d was a clever fat joke, but nobody is going to lose votes in America for loving bacon<\/em>. Plus, Paul\u2019s political prospects are already limited by his efforts to alienate anyone who isn\u2019t a straight, white, Christian male \u2014 it doesn\u2019t help him any to further limit his appeal to only straight, white, Christian male ectomorphs.<\/p>\n

The factual basis for Paul\u2019s swipe is even worse since, as Steve Benen notes, blue-states like New Jersey subsidize<\/em> red-states like Kentucky:<\/p>\n

Kentucky, unlike New Jersey, receives far more money from Washington than it sends. Paul said that\u2019s because of the military bases in Kentucky, but that doesn\u2019t make any sense \u2014 New Jersey has more bases than Kentucky, but receives less per capita federal spending. In fact, for every dollar Kentucky sends to D.C., it receives $1.51 back; for every dollar New Jersey sends to D.C., it receives 61 cents back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a05.<\/strong> This is a fascinating interview with Doug Mesner, a.k.a. \u201cLucien Greaves<\/a>,\u201d leader of the Satanic Temple, which made waves recently with a performance-art \u201critual\u201d \u2014 a \u201cPink Mass\u201d performed at the grave of anti-gay activist Fred Phelps\u2019 mother<\/a>. Mesner seems to be an earnest ironist who wants to use his Temple to challenge and deconstruct the \u201cSatanist\u201d legends and conspiracy theories that lead the self-righteous to \u201cmalign, demonize and marginalize\u201d others. Mesner has studied the Satanic panic that began in the late 20th Century, and he wants to fight back against it and the harm it continues to do to innocent people.<\/p>\n

Mesner\/Greaves is sort of like the anti-Mike Warnke. Warnke pretended that he used to be a Satanic priest in order to deceive others into believing that a Satanist conspiracy was real. Mesner is pretending that he is a Satanic priest in order to convince others that this Satanist conspiracy is ridiculous. I\u2019m not sure if his theatrical irony will work<\/em> \u2014 it could well wind up reinforcing the very mythologies and conspiracy theories it aims to deconstruct. But then my own attempts to fight against those harmful mythologies by urging everyone to read Jeffrey S. Victor\u2019s Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend<\/em><\/a> probably isn\u2019t working either.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> Actual apologies are rare. Here\u2019s a pretty good one<\/a> \u2014 an actual mea culpa<\/em> that doesn\u2019t hedge on either the mea<\/em> or the culpa<\/em>. And here\u2019s David Roberts doing what he does best: \u201cWe are consigning hundreds of coastal cities to destruction. Who cares?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

7.<\/strong>\u00a0Theremins<\/a>! (Can never get enough\u00a0theremin<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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