“You Oughta Know” (again)
It’s been two weeks back at blogging again, and it feels great! Thanks to all of you who are reading and commenting. Thank you for visiting my little corner of the web. So far I’ve been writing nearly every day and I’m pretty sure I can’t keep up that pace as the semester goes on, so things might start slowing down a bit. But I’m sure I’ve given you more than enough interesting stuff to look at and ponder in the links below.
Links
Here are my favourite/intriguing reads of the week…
Politics
Hayden King – We natives are deeply divided. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Aarony Wherry – What now for Chief Spence and Idle No More?
James Fallows – The Two Sentences That Should Be Part of All Discussion of the Debt Ceiling
Doug Muder – The Distress of the Privileged
CBC News – 9 questions about Idle No More
Doug Saunders – What kind of nation is a First Nation? We need to decide
Life
Henrik Edberg – The Wonderful Wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes
Cory Copeland – The Fear of Living a Better Story
Danielle LaPorte – Curatives for judgement. (Please read before you interact with other humans.)
Faith
Craig M. Watts - Death, Violence and America: Is God the Answer or the Problem? and Daring to Call it Idolatry – Nationalism in Worship
Erika – What I Know [And Don't Know] About Hell
Jamie the Very Worst Missionary – Jesus or Zoloft?
Luke - On Presence as Peace in the Darkness
Antonia Terrazas – To the Girl Who Wants a Boy for Christmas
Jason Hines – Faith Is…
Steve Spotts – Learning to Cope with Chronic Pain
Emily Wierenga – What Does it Look Like to Have Enough Faith?
Rachel Pieh Jones – In the Image of a Beautiful God
Peter Enns – The Bible is a Smelly, Gross, Rotting Pile of Garbage
Culture and Society
Charles Eisenstein - Everything We Tell Ourselves About America and the World Is Wrong
Andy Hinds - One Dad’s Ill-Fated Battle Against the Princesses
Libby Anne – The Intersection of Guns, Gender, and Violence and Why I Believe in Civil Discussion
Jill Flynn, et al. – Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013
Zosia Bielski – Living alone:a testament to freedom or an erosion of society?
Nature and Travel
Rebecca J Rosen - Astronomers Reckon There Are 17 Billion Earth-Size Planets in Our Galaxy Alone
Quora – What are the most surreal places one can ever visit?
Alessandra Ram - The Perfect Shot: A Man, a Moon, and a Thin Piece of Rope
Random and Weird
Andrew Sullivan – Canada’s Top Comics (an ongoing discussion, apparently)
Megan Garber - How Monopoly Games Helped Allied POWs Escape During World War II
Allison Kade – 30 Bad Financial Habits You Should Outgrow by Age 30
Emma Jacobs – The Story of the Slinky
Lainey Gossip has the best Golden Globes coverage (and she’s Canadian).
What I’m reading…
Recommended reading…
Recommended viewing…
These gals are the best…
