The Internet Age, so much information. It’s a struggle to keep the time we spend each day consuming it within reasonable limits. To that end, we offer this curated list of daily links of interest…
Covered this week; How the GOP rigs the game… Can the voices of kids silence the NRA? Billy Graham dead at 99… The Mueller Investigation, is there fire where there’s smoke? Donald Trump and Joel Osteen’s Prosperity Gospel… The dark side of cobalt mining… Climate change, migration and displacement in North America moving forward…
February 19, 2018
“With a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money, Republicans have tipped the political scales in their favor. Will it be enough to keep Democrats from claiming victory in 2018?”
February 20, 2018
School shootings, mass murder… will the voices of kids be able to stop it? Most likely not, but what the hell… let’s run it up the flag pole and see who salutes… the #neveragain movement is born… I suppose it’s possible it grabs some momentum, a couple prominent proponents jump on board and you never know, it may catch on.
February 21, 2018
“The world’s best-known evangelist, the Rev. Billy Graham, has died. He was 99. From the gangly 16-year-old baseball-loving teen who found Christ at a tent revival, Graham went on to become an international media darling, a preacher to a dozen presidents and the voice of solace in times of national heartbreak. He was America’s pastor.”
February 22, 2018
“It’s a giant land mine of a story that could go either way. Mueller could leak the pee tape tomorrow, or we could be sitting here two years from now talking about a money laundering indictment that has nothing to do with Russia, or, who knows, the president might even turn out to be innocent (in this matter), at which point we’d have to start asking some questions about what this was all about.”
February 23, 2018
“Trump is the culmination of the Republican Party’s long love affair with the prosperity gospel. Other Republican politicians have courted prosperity gospel preachers for their huge audiences and influence; Trump is the embodiment of this particular marriage of politics and a religion. When Trump proclaims, “the evangelicals love me, and I love them,” though, he’s talking about a particular evangelical subculture in evangelicalism, one that is closer to Trump than it is to Jesus.”
February 24, 2018
“With little regulation requiring companies to trace their cobalt supply lines, and most of the world’s cobalt coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the chances are your smartphone contains a battery with cobalt mined by children in the central African nation.”
February 25, 2018
“There are plenty of unknowns in how this will play out, including unforeseen climate tipping points, technological innovations that help us adapt, and outbreaks of war and disease. But without a doubt, climate change is not only altering the physical boundaries of our world, it is challenging the very 20th-century idea that we can engineer our way out of -whatever chaos comes our way; the big lesson of this century may be that we cannot. As the seas rise and the temperatures soar, we will have to give up ground. We will learn that “retreat” is not a dirty word. And we will become, more and more, a nation of refugees.”
