Going through a few of the open tabs on my iPad with a cup of coffee this morning:<\/p>\n
At Talking Points Memo<\/em>:<\/a>\u00a0I saw this Associated Press report:\u00a0DOJ Lawyer: Steele Said Russian Intelligence Believed it Had Trump Over a Barrel.\u00a0<\/a>Looks like Bruce Ohr\u00a0<\/a>met with Christopher Steele<\/a>, who shared some information that did not make it into the dossier\u00a0<\/a>Steele wrote for Fusion GPS<\/a>.\u00a0 This is one reason why Trump wants to discredit Ohr \u2013 he likely knows things the White House would rather keep under wraps.<\/p>\n On a related note, William Saletan<\/a> lays it all out at\u00a0Slate<\/a><\/em>::\u00a0We Already Know Trump is Betraying His Country<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a pretty good rundown of how Donald Trump<\/a> has put Russia and his wallet before America, including some thoughts on why, all in one place.<\/p>\n At The Atlantic<\/a><\/em>, Yuval Noah Harari<\/a> lays out his thoughts on Why Technology Favors Tyranny<\/a>.\u00a0 He touches on something I\u2019ve given a lot of thought to: how will social norms change as technology replaces workers in the last remaining jobs that don\u2019t require complex education or training (e.g., long-haul truck drivers). If dying industry led to right-wing populism in rust-belt states, what happens when artificial intelligence replaces every worker who drives something for a living<\/em>?<\/p>\n Fred Clark<\/a>, a progressive Christian, writes about the intersection between religion and politics, among other things, at Slactivist<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 In a series he calls \u201cThe MAGA Commission<\/a>\u201d, Clark discusses the Great Commission Christ gave his followers to spread his word<\/a> and how the purpose and identity of evangelical Christianity has shifted from this missionary work to politics.\u00a0 Part One linked above; Parts Two<\/a> and Three<\/a> are also up.\u00a0 Clark is an excellent writer, and I urge all of you to check out his work.\u00a0 His exegesis<\/a> of the truly awful (both as writing and theology)\u00a0Left Behind\u00a0<\/a>books and films is especially interesting \u2013 and funny as\u2026hell (sorry).<\/p>\n Another Progressive Christian and former megachurch pastor fired for his \u201cprovocative\u201d (read: \u201cprogressive\u201d) writing, John Pavlovitz<\/a> asks Christians to Stop Blaming God for your LGBTQ Hatred<\/a>. He thinks Christians should stop applying the Bible to other people\u2019s lives.\u00a0Like Clark, Pavlovitz is a great writer, and like Clark has a blog name I wish I\u2019d thought of myself: Stuff That Needs to be Said<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Go check him out.<\/p>\n Some good reading this morning that could take you on a nice stroll through the internet.\u00a0Enjoy the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going through a few of the open tabs on my iPad with a cup of coffee this morning: At Talking Points Memo:\u00a0I saw this Associated Press report:\u00a0DOJ Lawyer: Steele Said Russian Intelligence Believed it Had Trump Over a Barrel.\u00a0Looks like Bruce Ohr\u00a0met with Christopher Steele, who shared some information that did not make it into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,1],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturday-morning-coffee","category-uncategorized","tag-saturday-morning-coffee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}