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Posting here kind of fell off towards the end of the week, because I moved back into my dorm today, and I had to spend a lot of the week packing, unpacking, and finishing my secret sewing project (pillows for me and my two suitemates that were embroidered with our name and an iconic image from a favorite book series). \u00a0I\u2019ll post pics of the final results next week. \u00a0Needless to day, even with advance planning, I ended up closing up the last seams in the car.<\/p>\n
\u20132\u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\nIn the spirit of the return to Yale, if any of you haven\u2019t seen the music video the admissions office hired students to produce, it\u2019s quite fun to watch. \u00a0I appear (extremely briefly) twice, the first time at around 3:40 in a red shirt and later, during the melee fighting, I\u2019m in the background with an ax and a short sword. If you\u2019re wondering what armed combat is doing in an admissions video, perhaps you should see it yourself. And possibly click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">\u20133\u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>But if you seriously want to know why I\u2019m so glad to be back at Yale, perhaps it would help to view \u201995 Theses,\u2019 a history of Martin Luther in rap. \u00a0The song is a reworking of Jay-Z\u2019s song which featured the chorus \u201cI got 99 problems but a bitch ain\u2019t one\u201d which is reworded as \u201cI got 95 theses but the pope ain\u2019t one.\u201d<br>\nI\u2019m always so happy to wake up at a school where people spend their free time writing lyrics like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I told y\u2019all that Rome\u2019d best agree to my terms<br>\nif not you can eat my Diet of Worms<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Oh snap, hes messin with the holy communion.<br>\nBut I aint never dissed your precious hypostatic union!<br>\nOne place at one time. Well, thank you Zwingli.<br>\nYeah, way to disregard that whole Im God thingy!<br>\nGetting all up in my rosary you little punk.<br>\nYour momma shoulda told you not to mess with no monk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full video below:<br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"'95 Theses' - rap music video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dt5AJr0wls0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">\u20134\u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, so very tired from moving this week, so I\u2019m just going to do quick links for the rest of the seven takes. <a href=\"http:\/\/epiphenom.fieldofscience.com\/2010\/08\/pic-of-week.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Epiphenom has linked<\/a> to a great visualization of changes in religious identification in England. \u00a0Interesting data presented in a great formal. \u00a0(Have I mentioned lately how much I love <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flowing Data<\/a>\u2018s discussions of chart designs?)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">\u20135\u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I liked better than James Mollison\u2019s up-close photographs of apes was the explanation of how he managed to get the shots (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2010\/08\/stare-into-the-eyes-of-40-ape-faces\/61567\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Andrew Sullivan<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">\u20136\u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry I missed putting up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/04\/granny-weatherwax-and-discworld-index-post.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Weatherwax Wednesday<\/a> post this week, but I\u2019ve saved the draft (which I quite like, for next Wednesday). \u00a0In the meantime, check out this Pratchett short story titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lspace.org\/books\/dawcn\/dawcn-english.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Death and what Comes Next<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">\u20137\u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I wrote two pieces for <em>The Huffington Post<\/em>\u00a0this week, both centering on the Park51 mosque and community center. \u00a0In the first, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/leah-anthony-libresco\/censoring-moderates-fuels_b_689719.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Censoring Moderates Fuels Radicals<\/a>\u201d I discuss why Newt Gingrich\u2019s goals re the mosque seem to resemble the foreign policy of South Korea, and both are likely to be unsuccessful.Here\u2019s a quote from the second piece, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/leah-anthony-libresco\/the-real-threat-posed-by_b_690866.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Real Threat Posed by the Cordoba Mosque<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For some minority groups, their very existence is perceived as offense. Whether the mosque is two blocks away or 80 (as Newt Gingrich prefers), the offense is still in existence. 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