- Who in the world thought it'd be a good idea to privatize prisons, and put quotas on how "full" they should remain? Essentially what you have happening: if crime lowers, tax payers must spend more as quotas aren't met so you incentivize the state to keep crime rates inflated and prisons full.
- Giving money to child beggars is one of the worst things you could do when traveling through impoverished nations. Did you know, for example, in Brazil child beggars trade powdered milk for coke (as in cocaine, not cola)? Or in India that organized crime runs rings of trafficked child beggars to exploit tourists?
- Thrice has always been a favorite band of mine. They are on a bit of a hiatus but their frontman just released a worship album and it is amazing. That review is from a non-christian magazine, and they gave it 3.5 stars out of 5, which kind of surprised me.
- Worth linking to again, as it came up this week: The Missionary Code and how churches play into it. Dynamics that are important to process through.
- Great questions for the Bible part of a DBS. They'll help any study get deep into the text.
- Interested in the Lavabit story? Here are the details of what all transpired.