The Perils of Civil Religion: #27

"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils."  - G. K. Chesterton

Links: Addendum

Forgot these:

1.  Which religion picks the best stocks.

2.  Nice long story from NPR on the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, a public high school and a 72-acre working farm.

Links

1.  Map visualization of newspaper endorsements for the presidential race. (via)

2.  USDA issues proposed pasture regulations for organic livestock that ban CAFO's and require a minimum of 120 days on pasture.  Sounds like a rare "well done."

3.  My name:  

4.  Nitrous Oxide Emissions Respond Differently To No-till Depending On The Soil Type.

5.  Find the exact/postal address of any point on google maps.

6.  Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' new record label, Acony Records, has released its first title - Swim from the The Whispertown 2000.  You can stream it here.  I like it.

NPR on Race and the Election

NPR's ongoing series entitled, The York Project: Race & The '08 Vote, continues to be extremely good.  To state the obvious, this is the type of reporting that they do so well and for which, as a medium, radio is particularly well suited.

Virtually True Crime

Fake marriage plus fake divorce plus fake murder (But it's also a suicide, right?  What do you call that?) equals real arrest.  

Note to self:  the Japanese take their avatars very seriously.

Aside:  On the off chance that you are a Harper's subscriber and haven't read it before this is a great piece on internet addiction across Asia, but focusing on China. Well, I haven't been able to find it before but it looks like this person cut and pasted the whole thing here, worth a read.

Aside 2:  When did Yahoo start that annoying "Read full article" tab thingy? 

Festus for the rest of us

Congrats to Festus Mogae for winning this years Mo Ibrahim Prize.