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August 28, 2010
The View From Your Window
Hollywood Hills, California, 12 pm
California - United States - Prison - Folsom State Prison - Prison riot
This Is Why You're Mean
A new study says that people who are physically clean feel superior to others and are prone to judge other people or social issues more harshly. In one experiment:
Hundreds of participants [who:] were told to read a short passage that began "My hair feels clean and light. My breath is fresh. My clothes are pristine and like new" made harsher moral judgements about 16 social issues compared with those primed to feel dirty by reading a passage that read "My hair feels oily and...
Sweet Meats
Since he hasn't yet been ordered by his doctor to stop, Matt Blum revives the great bacon meme with his latest odyssey: bacon pancakes.
bacon - Cooking - Arts - World Literature - Literature
August 27, 2010
The Weekly Wrap
Today on the Dish, we judged books by their covers and judging by Mehlman, gays were either destroying our country or don't exist. Conor captured start-ups and wipe-outs on the California scene and made the case for localism. The Catholic Church got the mosque treatment; hipsters got more of the church treatment, and Dan Savage asked the crazies to have a little faith.
Will Wilkinson got some post-partisan love; liberty and tyranny still weren't very useful for liberals, or libertarians; and B...
How Ideologues Are Made
by Patrick Appel
Ron Replogle uses the abortion debate to explain political group formation:
Your ideological community is the class of people whose moral andpolitical sensibility, their inventory of political principles andbattery of moral reflexes, carry weight in your political deliberation.An ideologue is prepared to reject a favorite principle when enough ofher ideological comrades have sufficiently powerful moral qualms aboutits applications. And she'll swallow her own moral qualms about...
Can Church Be Hip? Ctd
by Chris Bodenner
A reader writes:
Based on the material you've been showcasing, "Can church be hip?" is not the question you're actually exploring. Those songs may make reference to Christian concepts or images, but they are lyrics; they display an intimate, personal, unique and emotionally charged state of mind, and are clearly intended for performance or for private listening as recordings. They are manifestly not appropriate for "church" in any sense that I as a lifelong churchgoer would...
Why Mehlman Matters, Ctd
by Chris Bodenner
A reader writes:
underestimates the importance of gay visibility outside of urbanAmerica. In poorer and more rural parts of the country, being gay mayhave become more visible in the last several decades, but there arestill major impediments to being out and proud. America is a huge,diverse country, and nowhere near uniform in any way. If Mehlman isgoing to have an impact, it'll be on people like the low-level staffersand wonks that are rising within Republican...
Face Of The Day
A young girl, displaced from her home by flooding, lines up for food rations with others holding empty containers and ration cards at a Pakistan Army flood relief camp on August 27, 2010 near Sukkur in Sindh province, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been affected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The army and aid organizations are struggling ...
Why Not Raise The Retirement Age? Ctd
by Patrick Appel
Drum provides one answer:
[W:]here does the preoccupation with [raising the retirement age to:] age 70 come from? That would represent a decreasein the expected number of years of retirement since 1970, during aperiod in which the United States has become nearly twice as wealthy.That doesn't even begin to make sense. Sure, life expectancy mayincrease in the future, but if it does then we have the option ofincreasing the retirement age when it happens. For now, we should...
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