https://apnews.com/9b07058db9244cfa9f48208eed12c993?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

This one guy is getting sent away for swatting, but nobody is being let off the hook: neither the Wichita police, nor the other two video gamers involved.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-losing-2020-20190331-qz6zaomkfndxlleg75yhdqyvou-story.html

@TheRickWilson either truly believes in the Democrats-have-their-heads-in-the-clouds narrative, or he’s really trying to push it, on purpose. Pretty sure @ewarren isn’t boutique.

«They know that boutique policies in a Walmart nation won’t sell.»

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1111672588881874944?s=17

https://t.co/IsCtfDkUsg

Striking graph.

Wesley Yang (@wesyang) Tweeted:

“No religion” is for the first time ever the most common religious orientation in America. I remember when America’s religiosity was seen as part of what made it exceptional among Western democracies.

https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/3/29/18281270/737-max-faa-scandal-explained

Not to slam Boeing or the FAA in particular*, but this is how [some] enterprises make decisions, and it’s terrible.

*Although they are eminently slammable in this case.

«But then in August 2011, Boeing announced that it had lined up orders for 496 re-engined Boeing 737 aircraft from five different airlines.

It’s not entirely clear what happened, but, reading between the lines, it seems that in talking to its customers Boeing reached the conclusion that airlines would not wait for them. Some critical mass of carriers (American Airlines seems to have been particularly influential) was credible enough in its threat to switch to Airbus equipment that Boeing decided it needed to offer 737 buyers a Boeing solution sooner rather than later.

….

Most of all, decisions about what could and could not be delegated were being made by managers concerned about the timeline, rather than by the agency’s technical experts.

….

The light cost $80,000 extra per plane and neither Lion Air nor Ethiopian chose to buy it, perhaps figuring that Boeing would not sell a plane (nor would the FAA allow it to) that was not basically safe to fly. In the wake of the crashes, Boeing has decided to revisit this decision and make the light standard on all aircraft.

Now to be clear, Boeing has lost about $40 billion in stock market valuation since the crash, so it’s not like cheating out on the warning light turned out to have been a brilliant business decision or anything.»

https://indyweek.com/news/raleigh-s-john-pavlovitz-went-fired-megachurch-pastor-rising-star-religious-left/

«The pressure to… prioritize boosting attendance over addressing genuine laspes in faith, was intense, he says. Instead of being a balm for congregants’ dark nights of the soul, church felt like an event where participants presented highly edited versions of themselves.

….

But he couldn’t find a place for himself in the fabric of a church that, like many in the U.S., had become increasingly corporate. It was skilled at creating “really well-produced, age-specific Sunday experiences” and “great faith-based entertainment,” Pavlovitz says, but it never attempted to pull together people from all corners of humanity for the common purpose of glorifying God.»

https://www.umnews.org:443/en/news/resistance-to-gc2019-spreads

Surprising number of Midwesterners in here.

«United Methodists unhappy about passage of Traditional Plan find various ways to apologize to the LGBTQ community— and to protest.»

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/03/27/2020-election-iowa-caucuses-elizabeth-warren-agribusiness-family-farmers-rural-issues/3277185002/

«Warren’s campaign has focused on the idea that the federal government no longer works for working families and small businesses but instead is rigged in favor of the wealthy and well-connected. The senator has separated herself from a crowded field of Democratic contenders early in the race by releasing multiple policy proposals shaped around those themes.»

I think this is brilliant. She’s doing two things here: (1) Going after the anti-elite Trump voter (https://herereadthisarticle.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/the-five-types-of-trump-voters/), and (2) IOWA.

https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1110365834004688898?s=17

Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) Tweeted:

This is not difficult:

If you were unfairly labeled a crook, and an investigative report you fully control proved your innocence, you would have released it yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/25/democrats-heres-what-remember-about-mueller/

«The election is more than 1½ years away. The absolute best way to get rid of Trump is to pick an electable and competent presidential nominee. Be smart.»

Bingo.

CNN: Warren on term limits: They make lawmakers ‘more dependent than ever on the lobbyist’.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/politics/elizabeth-warren-term-limits-conway-new-hampshire/index.html