Blogaround

1. Air Bud: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive) (posted April 25) Here's John Oliver overanalyzing the 1997 movie "Air Bud." I love it.

2. Sudoku's Craziest Ever Puzzle? (posted 2021) A 57-minute sudoku solve video. I love the ones (like this one) where it takes forever for Simon to even figure out where to start. This is an amazing puzzle.

3. Elon Musk buys Twitter. What could possibly go wrong? (posted April 26) "It’s worth remembering that those who frame themselves as free speech advocates are more often than not hate speech advocates."

4. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (posted April 25)

5. Critical Spiritual Warfare Theory (posted April 29) "Show me a Pentecostal/charismatic church practicing 'spiritual mapping' to confront the demonic 'strongholds' of its city and which therefore champions the removal of Confederate monuments and maybe I’ll start to rethink that conclusion. But somehow that never seems to be what 'Spiritual Warfare' white Christianity produces. That tells us everything we need to know."

6. Becoming a Mother in Louisiana Has Only Made Me More Supportive of Abortion Rights (posted May 4) "Fifty-nine percent of people seeking abortions already have children; that’s because parents know. We know the financial, physical, mental, and social costs of parenting. Becoming a mother has made me significantly, unequivocally, more pro-choice, not less."