Links to Your World, Tuesday February 12

Soraya Roberts doesn't like to drink, and she writes about how much social pushback she gets from it.

The Civil War was, indeed, about "race," but for both North and South the view was that the racial heritage of Northerners from Saxon stock and Southerners from Norman stock created the disunion. Fascinating. Saxons were the race of the Puritans, who exhibited, according to one writer of the period, "those severe traits of fanaticism which had ever marked their history, squabbling, fighting, singing psalms, burning witches, and talking about liberty."


The data show that the perception of Christians as bad tippers is incorrect, but Stetzer says we have to work hard to change that bad image.


Facebook makes many feel bad about themselves. Ah, envy, that "green sickness."


You may be guilty of "oversharenting."


Downton Abbey as a Super Nintendo game. "Fluff those pillows!"