Prejudice and Discrimination: Why We Can’t Keep Covering Them Up

Judging by how race continues to play a prominent role in all aspects of society—our job and housing prospects, who we befriend and marry, our experience with the legal and justice system, where we worship, etc.—the Red Sox’s statement about the conduct of “an ignorant few” understates and obfuscates the reality that the problem of race is much more prevalent and pervasive than someone yelling racial epithets.
While there may have been a few “active bigots” in the crowd, I suspect that there were many more “timid bigots” present. If our aspiration is to have a society of “all-weather liberals,” I doubt that banning bigots from stadiums will do much to rehabilitate “timid bigots” and “active bigots” into “all-weather liberals.”

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Harvard study: Media has been largely negative on Trump

The study found that in Trump’s first 100 days in office, the tone of the news coverage of the president has been a whopping 80 percent negative to 20 percent positive.
CNN and NBC struck a 93 percent negative tone on their Trump stories, with only 7 percent positive. CBS was third in the anti-Trump race, with a 91 to 9 ratio. And the pro-Trump Fox News? That network was 52 percent negative to 48 percent positive.

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Cuba Rollback Could Cost Trump on Jobs Front

For Trump, who boasts of his deal-making prowess, the challenge may be putting his own thumbprint on the Cuba relationship without harming business opportunities. “Part of this for him is putting his stake in the ground and saying he’s going to get a better deal,” Marczak argued.
Any more than that would run counter to his campaign message, he said. “This is not a president who came to office to promote human rights.”

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Google’s CEO Doesn’t Use Bullet Points and Neither Should You

University of Washington biologist John Medina has done extensive research into persuasion and how the brain processes information. His advice is to burn most PowerPoint decks and start over with fewer words and more pictures. According to his book, Brain Rules, “We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you’ll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65 percent.”

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Five Reasons Why Stability Is Bad for a Church

1. A stable church is not a church on mission.
2. Comfort is the enemy of obedience.
3. Stable churches are not reaching their communities.
4. Stable churches do not create new groups.
5. Members of stable churches want the focus to be on their preferences.

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How To Handle Online Disagreements

1. Take a deep breath.
2. Ask yourself if it’s true.
3. Invest your words and time wisely.
4. Don’t feed the trolls.
5. Don’t get caught up in worthless discussions.
6. Write as if your words will be published in tomorrow’s newspaper.
7. Read through the eyes of non-Christians.
8. Earn the right to disagree.
9. Be charitable.
10. Keep in mind the following points when dealing with people who disagree:
    • The stereotype that “liberals are the patient, loving ones” and “conservatives are a bunch of calloused grumps” is wrong.
    • Hurt people hurt people.
    • People don’t have to agree with you about everything.

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The Work You Do, the Person You Are

This was what I heard:

1. Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself.
2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you.
3. Your real life is with us, your family.
4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.

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What Are the Most Misspelled Words in Every State?

Google Trends tweeted a map on Tuesday showing “America’s Most Misspelled Words,” based on the top “how to spell” searches in each state in 2017 so far.
The word people in Wisconsin need most help spelling: Wisconsin.
Badger State Gov. Scott Walker’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment.
The rest of the “most misspelled words” per state ranged from some as short as “liar” (R.I.) and “gray” (Georgia) to longer and more complicated ones such as “pneumonia” (Washington) to “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (Connecticut) from the movie “Mary Poppins.”

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Hurst Police, Firefighters Save Boy’s Birthday After No One Comes To Party

“She was wondering if someone could come down and talk to them because he just really likes the police,” Schmidt said.
Graham said he wants to be a police officer when he grows up because they fix things, and this time, “they came to fix the party,” Graham said.
The entire shift of Hurst police officers came to “fix” Graham’s party, plus some firefighters, too.

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