OK, I’m going to do a quick one, because it’s late (meetings and stuff all day), and I need to do an ADCO blog thingie before I leave tonight. And Mamanem’s gonna cook fried okra for dinner, so I’ve gotta hurry:
- Foreclosures up more than 36% across S.C. for July (CRBR) — I keep seeing signs we’re backsliding. We need to cut this stuff out, buck up, get out our wallets and go boost this economy, people!
- Dow’s Losing Streak: 3 Days (WSJ) — Amid fears that we are slipping back into recession. Seriously. We need to get off our duffs and turn this thing around. Maybe the rest of you are having fun, but I’m tired of it.
- Pakistani president visits flood relief camp in Sindh (BBC) — Not much of an angle, but I wanted to get something about this disaster on the front. And if you want to read a similar angle on the wildfires in Russia, click here.
- Senate Law-Making Made Simple: No Senators (WSJ) — Only Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Ben Cardin were there, so they got a lot done. Such as approving a $600 million border-security bill in 31 minutes, from opening gavel to final passage.
- Judge keeps California gay marriage ruling on hold (LAT) — I don’t normally take an interest in this Kulturkampf stuff, but I thought some of y’all might be interested.
- Did Humans Give Up Easy Sex for Easy Beer? (Gizmodo) — We all know that mankind started farming so we could grow barley to make beer (NOT bread — who would give up hunting and gathering for that?), but now some boffins are positing that there was a terrible price of opting for brew.
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Spending money we don’t have in order to boost the economy? America overspends and the whole world benefits; I never have figured that out, but then I flunked an entrance interview for Rice U. because I picked economics as a subject with, of all things, an economic prof. Couldn’t answer his first question.
Which is why I prefer to change the subject. On topic no. 6, I don’t know about early humans, but I’m reading a fascinating book Paul Among the People, by Sarah Ruden, a professor of ancient Greek and Latin lit. While I don’t agree with all of her presuppositions, her analysis of the ancient world and the culture St. Paul moved in is really helpful, I think. Paul’s not the chauvinist or prude he is often taken to be, far from it. And our culture seems tame in some ways in comparison to the ancient world, except that we’ve got more technology to hurt people with.
St Paul was an idiot, or more likely, the group of scribes who wrote for “St Paul” were idiots. My grandmother pointed that out to me.