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Dismal theology-related tweet of the day

What does it profit them to gain illegal entrance if they lose their own soul? — Elizabeth Bennet (@MeMyselfIReturn) June 20, 2018 Wow. Here is an actual human being who is so stupid she thinks that, after a long trek … Continue reading

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Reporting climate change

Four United States senators want the National Science Foundation to stop encouraging television meteorologists to report evidence of climate change. Four Republican senators called Wednesday for an investigation of National Science Foundation grants, saying the federal agency had ventured beyond … Continue reading

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The banality of evil

Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem was subtitled A Report on the Banality of Evil — and she spent the rest of her life defending it. Her point was simply this: Eichmann was a nebbish nobody, rather than the larger-than-life monster … Continue reading

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Not in my name, Mr. Trump

Mother Jones links to a pay-walled Wall Street Journal story that, if true, is a benchmark for squalid. “There’s one particular heartbreaking case,” Mr. Videgaray said, referring to a ten-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome who was recently separated from her … Continue reading

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Quote for the day

Families are ripped apart and children are left weeping by the fences constructed by government officials blindly following a regulation. This illustrates something crucial about this administration. It is not populated by conservatives. It is populated by anti-liberal trolls. There’s … Continue reading

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