2.<\/strong> The Consumerist asks \u201cWhat Kind of Jerk Refuses to Tip a Waiter Because He\u2019s Gay?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n Can you guess<\/em> what kind of jerk? Did you guess the sanctimonious religious type who demonizes others in a desperate attempt to pretend they\u2019re holy?<\/p>\n Because that, it turns out, is the kind of jerk who does this jerky thing. Because \u201creligious liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> Also from Consumerist: \u201cAmericans Racking Up Debt Faster Than We Save for Retirement<\/a>.\u201d A new study finds that 60 percent of American households are accumulating debt faster than retirement savings. (What are these \u201cretirement savings\u201d you speak of?)<\/p>\n This is news to the researchers conducting this study, but it\u2019s not news, of course, to 60 percent of American households, except maybe the news that what is true for them is true for three-fifths of the rest of the country. Or maybe the news that life is somehow not<\/em> like this for about two fifths of the country.<\/p>\n Jubilee. We await the year of God\u2019s favor. It really is our only hope.<\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> Spoiler Alert: Mark Driscoll\u2019s Jesus is Tyler Durden<\/a>, which means \u2026. OMG!<\/em><\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> Here\u2019s Scot McKnight discussing Claude Mariottini\u2019s discussion of one of my favorite biblical idioms: \u201cany that pisseth against the wall<\/a>.\u201d They argue that something meaningful is lost when this phrase gets sanitized into a polite, neutral euphemism for \u201cmales.\u201d I enjoyed this discussion for the same silly reasons I enjoyed all those \u201cpisseth against the wall\u201d verses when I was a kid in KJV-only fundie circles, but there\u2019s a more serious point here too. The biblical writers knew the word for \u201cmales\u201d and \u2014 in these instances \u2014 they chose not to use it.<\/em> Ignoring that rude choice, or contradicting it, disregards and disrespects the text. Yet because this disregard and disrespect is based on a notion of \u201cinspiration\u201d that plays down the human agency of the biblical writers, it\u2019s inaccurately referred to as a \u201chigh view of scripture.\u201d<\/p>\n 6.<\/strong> Corporations may be powers and principalities, but the legal agreement creating them does not breathe into them a living soul:<\/p>\n By incorporating his business, Potter voluntarily forfeited his rights to bring individual actions for alleged corporate injuries in exchange for the liability and financial protections otherwise afforded him by utilization of the corporate form. Adoption of Potter\u2019s argument that he should not be liable individually for corporate debts and wrongs, but still should be allowed to challenge, as an individual, duties and restrictions placed upon the corporation would undermine completely the principles upon which our nation\u2019s corporate laws and structures are based. We are not inclined to so ignore law, precedent, and reason<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 7.<\/strong> Yesterday was the Slacktivixen\u2019s birthday, so how\u2019s about a love song<\/a>?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2013\/10\/Spoiler.jpg\")
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