Unemployment Song Priest

Links for a fuzzy Tuesday

In the last 100 years, the number of Christians around the world has more than tripled from historical estimates of approximately 600 million in 1910 to more than 2 billion today. But the world’s overall population has also risen rapidly, from an estimated 1.8 billion in 1910 to 6.9 billion in 2010. As a result, Christians make up about the same portion of the world’s population in 2010 (32 percent) as they did a century ago (35 percent).

Depending on your theological outlook, the headline there could be “Billions More Going to Hell Than Were Damned a Century Ago.”

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Phil Plait: “ Top 24 Deep Space Images of 2011 ”

He keeps posting stuff like this so I’ll keep linking to it.

Blame Brian McLaren for drawing my attention to this: “ The Worst Version of O Holy Night Ever Recorded .”

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“ Too much power in the hands of a few rich people and large corporations .”

Pew Research Center finds 77 percent of Americans agreeing with the description above.

Shave off 1 percent for the 1 percent, and perhaps another 5 percent for the toadies, enablers and Renfields hoping for crumbs from their table. Those folks all fight hard for the proposition that there is not enough

When you read about workers today, they are discussed mainly in terms of statistics (the unemployed), trade (the need to eliminate and offshore their jobs in the name of increased profit) and unions (usually depicted as a purely negative drag on the economy). In reality, the lives of American workers, as well as those of the unemployed and the homeless, make up a critically important cornerstone of our country’s story, past and pres­ent, and in that story, there is great honor.

Europe’s “no pain no gain” attitude to solving its sovereign crisis risks exacerbating the bloc’s problems, choking off the very growth needed to raise the money to pay down the debt.