Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or, occasionally, profound. Views expressed in the Wednesday Walk do not necessarily reflect those of anyone but the writer.
- This Week in Christmas Music: “Last Christmas,” except written by Bach shows us that Christian music doesn’t have to be chintzy pablum, we just passively accept that so much of it is.
- This Week in Groundbreaking New Theology: Speaking of this month’s Christian celebration(s), there’s been a stunning development in the story of Jesus’ birth, and it has a little something to do with Evil Mary. I’m pretty sure Evil Mary is the progenitor of Dirtbag Jesus, and if you go far enough down the line, Bad Santa.
- One more Christmas tidbit from this atheist Jew: If you’re so unlucky as to have an obnoxious, judgy Christian as a neighbor during this sensitive time of year, I implore you to lean into whatever’s bothering them. Then, lean in some more.
- RIP Jacqueline Caal, a seven-year-old girl murdered by the US federal government.
- RIP Emily Todd, murdered by a man she’d broken up with after dating for just a few days.
- RIP Kelly Stough, murdered by a pastor. (#NotAllClergy)
- It’s really tempting to remember this life advice at times. But it wouldn’t end well.
- The KFC fried chicken-scented fire log is here your whole squad have a comfy winter. I will admit a twinge of curiosity, though if your house smells like fried chicken and you don’t have fried chicken on offer you’ve probably committed a grievous sin of deception.
- Artist Sue Martin has a wheelchair equipped with motors and flippers to allow her to go scuba diving.
- Fax machines seem to still be a thing, waiting for their remaining users to crawl into the 1990’s.
- This Week in Video Games: When playing DooM, often the question is asked, what does it mean to be “powerful” when power is just an integer in RAM? When death is meaningless?
- A surgical resident breaks down film & TV depictions of medicine.
- I never knew T.Swift was such a Nietzschean thinker.
- Who would you be and what sort of life would you have if you lived in the 19th century? I can think of a bevy of fascinating diseases that would’ve killed me, and some social mores that would have as well, but this generator knows the real deal. According to its sage-like knowledge, I’d be a Meddlesome Gentleman who is Heir to a Great Fortune.