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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Say What?!
“There are families, we’re talking Christian families, pastors’ families, elders’ families from good, godly churches — their sons are rebelling, hanging out with homosexuals and getting married and the parents are invited. What would you do if that was the case? Here is what I would do: sackcloth and ashes at the entrance to the church and I’d sit in cow manure and I’d spread it all over my body.”
– An anti-gay pastor had strong feelings about his son potentially marrying a man.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “While it is true that the proximate CAUSES of the mortality increase are “poisonings” (by alcohol and prescription and nonprescription opioids), suicides, and chronic liver disease, the study begs the question, as the authors admit, what are the CAUSES of the proximate causes? The authors suggest some economic and physiological (morbidity-based) root causes. Are there others? How about the loss of job opportunities (the “giant sucking sound” suggested by Ross Perot in the dim, distant past as a consequence of trade agreements like NAFTA – implemented in 1993)? How about “welfare reform” (sic), 1996? How about the explosion in meth use? What are other possible root causes?”
Related: Studies show the death rate is rising for middle-aged American whites.
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What We’re Reading
This writer’s father died in an Airbnb – how can the company improve safety? (Medium)
Meet the digital team helping Obama find his voice online. (The New York Times)
Can’t evangelicals see that Ben Carson is hurting their cause? (The Week)
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