Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others....
Friday, August 28, 2009

Directive by Robert Frost

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Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyar...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

a world lost

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In the elementary textbooks of Hebrew in use a quarter of a century ago, there was a story of a schoolboy who would be in great distress eve...

picture this caption

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"He has committed every crime that does not require courage." — Benjamin Disraeli, speaking of a political opponent Send your subm...
Saturday, August 8, 2009

Flo Jo

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Dr Johnson on Resolutions

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There is nothing which we estimate so fallaciously as the force of our own resolutions, nor any fallacy which we so unwillingly and tardily ...
Friday, August 7, 2009

The Nagasaki chaplain reflects

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In August of 1945 Rev. George B. Zabelka, a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Army Air Force, was stationed on Tinian Island in the South Paci...

a lesson

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My oldest daughter had been an officer for one of the Utah chapters of the Future Homemakers of America, and the state organization held its...

preach my gospel

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Lorenzo Snow was visited one day by a man named Reverend Prentice. [T]he reverend walked into what he considered was more or less a business...

remembering Joseph

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Someday, and sometime, if I should live on I may converse with you as I only do to a few choice souls. Not that I can give you new thoughts-...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

A piece of chalk

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I remember one splendid morning, all blue and silver, in the summer holidays when I reluctantly tore myself away from the task of doing noth...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

nice video about Truman Madsen

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http://www.mormontimes.com/people_news/newsmakers/?id=8026
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Shakespeare Insult Kit

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In an effort to elevate the level of discourse on Irene's Mustache, we offer the following aid. Simply combine a modifier from each of ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Friday, July 17, 2009

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This past September, six environmentalists were acquitted of having caused $50,000 worth of damage to a power station—not because they did n...

the question ideologists fear most

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“Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, co...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

good advice from the Brown Bomber

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"Everyone gets knocked down sometimes. While you’re down there you might as well pick something up." --Joe Louis
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks...

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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. --HD Thoreau
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

today's challenge:

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$5,000 cash to the one who can find the non-war criminal in this charmingly weird depiction of that great smoke-filled back room in the Sky....

j. golden vindicated, after all these years

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A study by researchers at Keele University found volunteers were able to withstand pain for longer when they swore. Dr Richard Stephens, who...
Friday, July 3, 2009

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Hast thou not, yet, propos’d some certain end To which thy life, thy every act may tend? --John Dryden

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Michael Oakeshott's admonition: "The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny."

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When Macbeth asks a physician: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the wri...
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Each January, the American Dialect Society meets to vote on the media's most widely used word or phrase during the previous year. Las...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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Tuareg Wedding Sahara Desert Africa We have romanticized sexuality. Here are the words of a dissenting voice at the Catholic council when t...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the ...

from "The Final Unmasking"

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Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unkn...
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Friday, June 5, 2009

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Steve Young said he asked Brother Madsen once what his favorite scripture was. After thinking a while, Madsen told him it was Doctrine and C...

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It’s worth recalling that the Soviet state, which of course controlled all formal education, taught children that their first loyalty was no...

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Only the...Church can save a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age --G.K. Chesterton

the great hoax revisited

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If you want to contend that the Gospels are packs of lies and that Jesus never said all those things or performed all those wonders, you sho...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Truman G. Madsen, RIP

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I close with an entry in my journal. It was in Amman, Jordan some years ago. We had just come from a parched visit to Egypt where even the ...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

a night that will live in infamy

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The Toilet Paper Shortage of 1973 The entire episode started with a Johnny Carson Tonight Show monologue. Writers for the show had heard tha...

news brief: Guantánamo Detainee Ruled Not Mentally Fit To Testify About Psychological Torture

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WASHINGTON—In its first major hearing on the use of abusive interrogation tactics at Guantánamo Bay, a blue-ribbon panel found detainee Omar...

April 27, 2009 editorial from Pravda (no kidding)

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American capitalism gone with a whimper It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happeni...

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The view that states can do wrong is the most powerful theory of politics in the history of the world. --Llewellyn Rockwell
Thursday, May 28, 2009

the americanization of emily

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Don't miss this classic scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tHS-ibOpSY
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

he's a rebel and he'll never be any good

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"Louisville, KY 5/22/09: Wendell Berry, also wearing a nice suit, said that the problem N.A.I.S. [National Animal Identification System...

The Mad Farmer's Love Song

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O when the world's at peace and every man is free then will I go down unto my love. O and I may go down several times before that. --Wen...

excellent advice

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“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” --Wendell Berry
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

this is your lightning on drugs

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oregonians! prove your faith

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discard that umbrella
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

from Arthur Henry King

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What the Lord said to Brother Joseph was, "They are all wrong." And if He condemned all the churches of his time, you may be quite...
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from J. Golden Kimball:

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What Is a "Good Man"? I take it that we will all be relieved when I get through. I certainly got the surprise of my life this morn...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this e...
Monday, May 18, 2009

if you don't talk like some people do

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Some are lost because they are different. They feel as though they don’t belong. Perhaps because they are different, they find themselves sl...