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A lot of things happened in the last couple of weeks. I turned 40, I took myself on a vacation to Sedona, Arizona for one full day, and McDonald’s, my least favorite restaurant in the world, began selling a cheeseburger in collaboration with rapper Travis Scott. As I embark on the next chapter of my life, it’s time I started running towards, instead of away from, three of the things I avoid the most: McDonald’s, Travis Scott, and collaborations.

Like Aaron Sorkin stepping through the doors of 1OAK, I found my seat in a subterranean movie theater at a Thursday matinee of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour with a simple mission: “I just needed to see what went on there.” On the subject of Taylor Swift: yes, sure, fine! On the subject of Tree Paine, her crimson-haired publicist: we are one nation under not God, but Her Majesty Treyvadius Paine!

People ask me about stats. Players want to know how stats affect their ability to win a match, or their chances of being in the starting lineup. Coaches want to know what stats they should keep for their teams. What stats should they keep for practice? What stats should they track in-match? What stats should they review after the match? I built a whole Stats App to help answer these questions.

With Holy Week right around the corner, this seems like a good time to post my April 14, 2019 article with the Gospel Coalition. My thanks to Megan Hill, a favorite editor and author. Every year on Palm Sunday, children enter our worship service with palm branches, delightfully waving to the congregation (or devilishly whipping one another) in celebration of Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. Many know the story of the Lord Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey to the adulation of the crowds.

AHP Note: Every so often I get a great pitch for a guest interview and hand the Culture Study reins over to someone else (usually a reader who *gets it*) to handle the interview (and get paid for it, of course — your subscriptions made it possible for me to pay significantly above the going industry rate, which is really, really awesome). This week, Tyler Burgese interviews sociology professor Erin A.

You may have noticed it has been some time since the last true blog-style post to I’ve Ben Thinking. There are a lot of factors at play, but the most exciting update to share is that through my writing cooperative, the Zenith Cooperative, I have been working with my outstanding mentor and public health writer Abdullah Shihipar to learn more about what it takes to become a published writer. The biggest focus has been on learning how to draft and sell freelance pitches.

No, it’s not the exact anniversary of Mean Girls. Alas, the film did celebrate a big birthday earlier this year: sweet 16. A pivotal year for adolescence. The year high schoolers can finally yell, “Get in loser, we’re going shopping.” out of the driver seat.  That’s why we’re talking about Mean Girls today — also, it’s Oct. 1. Three days away from: As dreamy as Aaron Samuels is, Mean Girls may not technically be a rom-com.

What is real? What is right? What is lovely? Human beings ask these profound philosophical kinds of questions because we long and hope for at least three things: truth, goodness, and beauty. Prominent philosophers through the centuries have called these three cosmic values transcendentals. A transcendental refers to something that exists beyond the time-space world. It is a universal reality that extends beyond our everyday sensory experiences and is thus considered nonphysical, immaterial, conceptual, or even spiritual.

Introducing the MAGA hat II. The campaign made some changes to the latest edition of its signature hat, including fixing the Gs. Also in this week’s issue: The Trump campaign app captures way more data than the Biden campaign app How New York magazine made its de Blasio street art cover This is my favorite political ad of the year Yours, The Trump campaign on Monday began advertising the latest item in its campaign shop: a new “Make America Great Again” hat.