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from Front Porch Republic
Where Is Our Freedom to Exercise Sympathy?
There is no real sympathy without real independence. That is what I want to say. But what will those words mean to people who’ve never had either? People who increasingly live in what Alan Jacobs describes as “a culture for which surveillance has become the normative form of care”? Farming, professing—these are only two of the manifold forms of life in which people might hope to “preserve themselves as whole shepherds” by taking it upon themselves to care for a “whole flock,” which means caring not for its number but for each of its members, and serving them not as a functionary but as a practitioner.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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For the turkey industry, this Thanksgiving is a guessing game. Millions of Americans are expected to have scaled-down celebrations amid the pandemic, heeding official warnings against travel and large indoor gatherings. That leaves anxious turkey farmers and grocers scrambling to predict what people will want on their holiday tables.
Volunteers of America, which operates the Hope House, offered the first tour of its future shelter and permanent supportive housing complex on West Third Avenue on Thursday. Officials plan to have the new building, which is currently under construction, ready for use by April. Formerly the location of The Shack restaurant, the first floor of the new Hope House will serve as an emergency shelter for about 120 women, while the second and third floors offer permanent supportive housing units for about 60 More. It’s a substantially larger footprint than the current Hope House building, which is less than a mile to the east on Third Avenue and has space for about 60 overnight guests.
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from Time Media/News Company
Over the last month, ever since the indictment of 13 men for plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan, the word “militia” has appeared in thousands of newspaper headlines and TV news reports. The Detroit News: “Feds Say They Thwarted Militia Plot to Kidnap Whitmer.” NPR: “FBI Says Militia Plotted To Kidnap Michigan Governor.” ABC-12: “Militia Members Accused in Whitmer Kidnapping Face Life in Prison.” But all of these headlines are wrong, and almost every instance of the use of the word militia by journalists—as well as politicians and even law enforcement—has been wrong. Why? Because there is no such thing as a legal private paramilitary militia.
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