Just a few of the articles, and videos, I watch and read Sunday night and today. What are you reading or watching?
Shake Shack founder on changing the way restaurants do business
Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes
America’s Changing Religious Identity
Daniel Cox, Ph.D., Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., PRRI
Souls and the Guns of America
Martin Marty, Sightings
Guns and the Soul of America
David Brooks, The New York Times
Trump picks cultural fights to distract Americans from his policies and their results
Ezra Kline, Vox.com
Richard Thaler Wins the Nobel in Economics For Killing Homo Economicus
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
64 hours in October: How one weekend blew up the rules of American politics
Yahoo News Staff
Gerrymandering only one way U.S. divided – we’re self-segregating politically too
Michael Smerconish, Philly.com
As much as 2.6% of your DNA is from Neanderthals. This is what it’s doing
Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Facebook “embeds,” Russia and the Trump campaign’s secret weapon
Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes
My local VW dealer’s service department is busy this morning. I’m one of many waiting for my car. It’s an oil change and other 120k basic maintenance. Yes, I have one of those TDI’s that needed a recall fix to cease spewing so much pollution into Oklahoma’s air and the planet’s ecosystem. Fixed now. Took two days. I don’t practice what I call monetized dominion theology. A prime example of that theology is current EPA director Scott Pruitt.
As the sun broke the horizon this morning I began the day with The Daily Question from Gratefulness.org.
In the natural world, when/where do I feel most humbled?
What Sincerity Looks Like
David Brooks, The New York Times
“Back in the 1950s, sincerity seemed treacly and boring, and authenticity, in the form of, say, Johnny Cash, seemed daring and new. But now rebellious authenticity is the familiar corporate success formula, and sincerity, like Chance the Rapper’s, is practically revolutionary.”
Vast: Hubble’s Birthday Photos
Bill Whitaker, 60 Minutes
How Congress Utterly Failed In Its Response To The Sandy Hook Shooting
By Jason Cherkis and Sam Stein, Huffingtonpost.com
Mass Shooting Tracker
a website compiling data on mass shootings in the Nation
Rachel Maddow: Trump’s TV Nemesis
By Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker
15 Years After Columbine, How “Never Again” Became “Oh, Well”
Ben Dreyfuss, MotherJones.com, April 20, 2014
What Mass Killers Want—And How to Stop Them
By Ari N. Schulman, The Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2013
The Media Needs To Stop Rationalizing President Trump’s Behavior
Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight