Greetings, all.
It’s great to have you here.
Welcome.
Let’s begin.
********************
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/breakfast-food-around-the-world/index.html
We begin on a multicultural note.
These are some breakfast foods from 21 countries around the world.
Some really interesting stuff here.
What’s a typical breakfast in your country?
***
https://time.com/5605625/malala-yousafzai-father
What Being Malala’s Father Taught Me About Feminism
“…But I am sure of one thing: patriarchy is sheer stupidity. Fathers have a great interest in dismantling it…”
Mr Yousafzai says a lot of important stuff here, and you can see where Malala got her fire and worldview from.
***
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47675301
The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
(Over the last few days, the media in my country has been focusing on a mega-pastor who has been accused of raping and manipulating his church members. The timing of this is an interesting coincidence, as I had bookmarked this particular article almost a month ago.)
(Tel-)Evangelists are little more than Bible-thumping conmen these days, and this hurts me.
Apart from the fact that I’m a Christian, I detest the taking advantage of the poor, illiterate and unfortunate that is frequently done by these people.
Good to see some of them (like this charlatan, Todd Coontz) are now getting their comeuppance (which in this case was a 6-year prison term).
****
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/the-baumol-effect.html
Fantastic article on The Baumol Effect.
I’m surprised it has taken me so long to learn of this. It’s so well-explained and so commonsensical in hindsight you wonder how it’s not more obvious.
Excellent breakdown of what is an important economic theory.
If all of economics was explained like this, I’d probably love the darn subject more.
***
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/five-lessons-from-history/
Five Lessons from History
Long read, but germane to these times we live in.
“The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.”
“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
***
https://www.soundingsonline.com/voices/drowning-doesnt-look-like-drowning
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Important stuff here. The summer holidays are approaching, and drowning is a risk associated with waterside jollification.
This article will help you recognize when someone is drowning (hint: it’s nowhere like what you think it looks like), and might save a life.
***
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-all-muslims-fast-during-ramadan.amp
The Muslims Who Don’t Fast During Ramadan
Ramadan has just been completed, but in the spirit of the season, this story is appropriate.
There’s something to be said for faith that is manifested in acts of charity. While piety and ritual are essential parts of any religion, acts of charity are, in my opinion, the best way to show (your) God to man.
The Baye Fall are an interesting example of that.
***
How Bob Marley’s daughter saved Jamaican women’s soccer
I was looking for a story which theme is the ongoing Women’s World Cup, and I found a very good one.
This woman is phenomenal.
I know barely anything about Jamaican female football, and yet I felt proud reading this.
This is how to make impact
***
Towing an Iceberg: One Captain’s Plan to Bring Drinking Water to 4 Million People
People are towing icebergs all the way from the Antarctic circle to provide water for their citizens, but here in Nigeria we don’t even have water.
Sigh.
***
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-defender
Manute Bol.
Never forget the name.
The man. The myth. The giant. The absolute bloody legend.
Played basketball. Educated his people. Exposed Osama bin Laden when nobody knew who he was.
Easily the greatest ever South Sudanese so far, and it’s a crying shame more people don’t know about him.
I like that stories like this are being told more and more often.
***
https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/jamesball/shell-shocks-how-an-oil-giant-secured-a-13-billion-deal
Look at this giant pile of steaming excrement.
Shell paid $1.3 billion for an oil bloc in Nigeria.
More than $1billion of it went to private pockets, allegedly the President, a former oil minister and others.
You know the worst part of this scandal?
Not a single newspaper or news agency in Nigeria is carrying it. This should be front and center, but here we are, almost uniformly unaware that out collective commonwealth was sold for peanuts.
***
That’s it for this month.
Until next month, keep making good choices.
POSTSCRIPT
There’s a lot of advice for women on how to avoid getting raped, and not enough advice telling men how to avoid raping women.
I am going to address that now.
Men, do not rape or sexually harass women.
It’s really not that hard not to rape women.
If you feel the urge to rape a woman and you don’t know how to overcome it, do nothing.
If there’s a drunk naked woman in your bed, do nothing, and you won’t rape her.
If she has said no, do nothing, and you will succeed in not raping her.
If she has not said yes, do nothing, and you will avoid raping her.
It is as simple as that. Just do nothing, and you will successfully avoid raping women.
This is all you need to remember: to avoid raping a woman, do nothing.
How not to rape women
Ranchosblog 