Sunday Sermonette: Our long nightmare of boredom is almost over

Chapter 27 is the last of the seemingly eternal recitation of meaningless names. There ' s no point in saying anything about this, it ' s very existence is inexplicable. As always, the total number of soldiers is absurd. So I ' ll just take this opportunity to say that mediation of the news by for profit corporations is just a fact of American society. I didn ' t take a position on it one way or another. There are not-for-profit news sources of course, e.g. NPR and PBS, but they depend on sponsorship just as much as for-profit companies. People just need to be skeptical and critical consumers of information. You need to learn how to discern the ways in which the news is selectively presented and framed; be skeptical of the motives of sources, especially if they ' re anonymous; separate the news sections from the opinion sections where greater license is given for sheer invention (e.g., the Wall Street Journal news pages are generally reliable but the opinion pages are raving insane); and take advantage of specialized, reliable primary sources in areas of strong interest to you. 27 This is the list of the Israelites —heads of families, commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and their officers, who served the king in all that concerned the army divisions that were on duty month by month throughout the year. Each division consisted of 24,000 men.2 In charge of the first division, for the first month, was Jashobeam son of Zabdiel. There were 24,...
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