• In Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, yesterday wasn’t just a holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., it was also a day to celebrate the honorable men who committed treason in defense of slavery, rape, kidnapping and torture. This would seem to be yet another category in which Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi come in 48th, 49th and 50th.
• “People in glass planets shouldn’t throw asteroids.”
• I suspect this may be staged, but even if so, it’s pretty awesome: “Delaware cop caught on dashcam rocking out to Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off.'”
• Here’s MLK talking like NDT.
• As a follow-up of sorts to my comments the other day on Bryan Fischer’s apparent monolatrous polytheism, here’s a lecture by Dr. Carol A. Newsom of Emory on “Demons and Evil Angels in Early Judaism.”
From the abstract: “Although rabbinic Judaism largely rejected it, this worldview strongly shaped Christian religious beliefs. And while modernist Christians do not take the mythology of evil spirits literally, variations on these beliefs remain common among conservative evangelical and Pentecostal Christians throughout the world.”
• “Franklin Roosevelt was part of the Old Gold Salvage group of 1909 and kept up with news and developments for most of his life.” (I fell down a linkhole and wound up in this odd corner of Wikipedia. It happens.)
• “Fundy Rule No. 3. The less certain something is, the more certain you must appear to be about it.”
• Land o’ Goshen there are some biblically illiterate uptight Christians in Frisco, Texas. I appreciate that cedar trees are unpopular in Texas nowadays, but it’s a bit odd that all these Bible-Christian types seem utterly clueless as to why their predecessors referred to the area as Lebanon. And it’s just ignorant for Bible-belt residents who are so proud of their “Christian heritage” to hear biblical place names and think only of “all the sad and turmoil that goes on in the Middle East.”
And boy are these people in for a shock when they realize where Abilene gets its name from.
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