{"id":17456,"date":"2013-09-01T01:24:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=17456"},"modified":"2013-09-01T01:24:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T05:24:17","slug":"full-up-like-a-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/09\/01\/full-up-like-a-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"Full up like a landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/romenews-tribune.com\/view\/full_story\/23296688\/article-Punks-break-Myanmar-s-silence-on-religious-attacks?instance=home_news_lead\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">That leaves the punk rockers<\/a>, who know what it\u2019s like to be outsiders.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cA Republican state senator from Arkansas who is leading a legislative committee on the subject of giving guns to school teachers <a href=\"http:\/\/kohenari.net\/post\/59692395880\/lawmaker-shoots-teacher\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">accidentally shot a teacher during an \u2018active shooter\u2019 drill<\/a> earlier this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe only way I can see to consistently avoid the problem of assuming respondents actually care about the issue of interest as much as do poll commissioners is to expand the usual response format of \u2018Yes, no, or don\u2019t know\u2019 to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/ten-miles-square\/2013\/08\/whats_wrong_with_public_opinio046280.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">include the option \u2018Don\u2019t care.\u2019<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cPublic health experts estimate that as many as <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/08\/26\/quit-washing-your-chicken-it-just-sprays-germs-everywhere\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">90 percent of Americans do it, and they want us to cut it out<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2013\/08\/peak-water\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">stop assuming that the water available for future use is the same as in the past<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/?id=3088#comic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17458\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2013\/09\/SMBC-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\"><\/a>\u201cDeception is found to be virtuous in the story <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/blessed-are-tricksters.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">when it is used to interrupt the powerful<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<\/strong>The Bible is not a book God wrote, it is <a href=\"http:\/\/scottpaeth.typepad.com\/main\/2013\/08\/lets-be-clear-god-didnt-write-the-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a book that human beings wrote about God<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWhat if our calling is to imagine engaging the world so as to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrdkirk.com\/2013\/08\/26\/salt-earth\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">make the good things of the world better versions of themselves<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cJust make sure you are <a href=\"http:\/\/ragamuffinsoul.com\/2013\/08\/christianbubble\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hanging out regularly in a group where you are the minority<\/a> when it comes to your beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=10673\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The truth cannot be that long<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI hope the tree will love the soil of the old world and <a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/this-380-year-old-tree-is-still-bearing-fruit\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">no doubt when we have gone the tree will still be alive<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/askthepast.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/how-to-treat-freshmen-1495.html?spref=fb\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen<\/a>. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with dust or any filth, mock by whistling, cry at them with a terrifying voice, or dare to molest in any way whatsoever physically or severely, any, who are called\u00a0freshmen. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAfter losing his fortune, Norton took the unusual step of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/08\/13\/petition-to-name-san-franciscos-bay-bridge-after-emperor-norton-gains-support\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">proclaiming himself Emperor of the United States<\/a>\u00a0in 1859.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe idea that all, or even most, or even a lot, of the stars you can see in the sky are already dead is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2013\/08\/13\/are_the_stars_you_see_in_the_sky_already_dead.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">simply wrong<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastwordonnothing.com\/2013\/08\/15\/snark-week-dont-pet-the-ants\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Draw your own conclusions about gerbils<\/a>, folks.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via<\/em>\u00a0Ed Yong<\/a>)<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christianpiatt\/2013\/08\/church-sign-epic-fails-eat-your-pastor-edition\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Church Sign Epic Fails<\/a>: \u2018Eat Your Pastor'\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jae Chong plays Radiohead, plus some weekend links, including: Punk rock prophets, polling for “I don’t care,” please don’t rinse that chicken, peak water, Blessed are the Tricksters, who wrote the Bible?, bursting from the bubble, 380 years for pears, the Emperor of San Francisco, and some 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Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. 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