1. By raw coincidence from – here is this line from McSweeney’s – specifically regarding prayers to end war and murder
   

   Mudslides, freak lightning storms, untreatable illnesses–those are God problems. But YOU killing each other with killing machines YOU created to kill each other seems like a YOU problem. Go do something about it! But, hey, that’s just this God’s opinion.

   As Hoffer put it – we walk between the devil and the dragon.

2. My favorite SMBC so far – sort of related to my “Let’s Kill Hitler” book idea.
3. One of Tyler Cowen’s better posts – regarding Moore’s Law and Social Media – some nuggets
   

   Manipulable people can be reached with a greater flood of information, so over time as data on them accumulate, they become more manipulable.

   It is often easier to manipulate smart people than stupid people, because the latter may be oblivious to a greater set of cues and clues.

   There is a performative dimension that renders both sides more rigid and dishonest.

   The socially sensitive, very smart people will become the most despairing, the most manipulated, and the most angry. The socially insensitive will either jump ship into the camp of the socially sensitive, or they will cultivate new methods of detachment, with or without Stoicism. Straussianism will compete with Stoicism.

Social sensitivity is the nugget of wisdom – that seems like more of a spectrum disorder (to use the parlance of our time)