Human Interest

My friend Jesse Cone asks:

Question: If Laurus is to Orthodoxy what The Power and the Glory is to Roman Catholicism, what’s the analogous novel for Protestantism?

Readers?

Submitted by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com,

Social media giants Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., Google and Microsoft Corp. have vowed to tackle online hate speech in less than 24 hours as part of a joint commitment with the European Union to combat the use of social media by terrorists, reports Bloomberg Technology.

On June 6, 2016 a group of Satanists will use GPS technology to construct a giant pentagram in Los Angeles in order to raise awareness for Satanism. 6-6-16 marks the date that the Satanic Temple in Los Angeles will construct the giant pentagram in Lancaster, northern Los Angeles county, in order to “raise awareness” for Satanism and Satanists alike. The “666” date was chosen because it closely resembles the Mark of the Best as featured in the Book of Revelation, which the Satanic Temple hope will give them more media attention.

Politicians in Denmark plan to reduce the number of royal grandchildren who are eligible to receive annual state funded salaries. Queen Margrethe II has eight grandchildren and the Danish politicians state that “simple mathematics” requires them to think again about who should be eligible for funding. A ruling party spokesman said: “Simple mathematics dictate that there needs to be some sort of limit.

Having disappointed in March (just +0.1% MoM), expectations for April's personal spending were sky high at +0.7% MoM, despite expectations of a 0.4% rise in incomes. Analysts were not disappointed as the headline spending print was a 7-year high +1.0% MoM spike driven by a 3.8% MoM surge in Energy spending. With income rising as expected at 0.4% MoM, and thanks to revisions, the savings rate tumbled to its lowest since 2015.

Sustainable? The 2nd biggest spike in spending since 2005...