Saturday, December 26, 2009

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

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When on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness...

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President Marion G. Romney, who served as a counselor to President Spencer W. Kimball, is a wonderful example of someone who asks faithful q...

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today's moments in history: the sepoy mutiny

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I'll never forgive myself for the Sepoy Mutiny, whose cause ranks as the most insensitive act of cultural imperialism ever committed by ...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

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"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it." --H.L. Mencken
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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It seems as if every week somebody comes up with a study that shows the number of people who will die from exposure to second-hand smoke, or...

lisboa

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grade the speech

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[H]ere we come to what was for me the most revolting part of [Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance]speech. And perhaps the most signific...

watch that face

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Tony Blair, visiting lecturer at Yale Divinity School As one of his illustrious countrymen once put it: "Murder, though it have no tong...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Letter to a Funeral Parlor

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Dear Sir, I am writing to you to object to the word cremains, which was used by your representative when he met with my mother and me two da...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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An episode from the life of William James captures the problem well. He had been given charge of a turtle's heart for a popular lecture ...

Church News: LDS Youth Gets Brief Posthumous Brush with Celebrity

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Church News caption: President Barack Obama, right, salutes as an Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Church...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

late (heart) breaking news

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Bryant Gumbel to Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner in an interview during the 2000 presidential race: “In a macropolitical sense, do you think t...

Lot's Wife

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And the just man trailed God's shining agent, over a black mountain, in his giant track, while a restless voice kept harrying his woman:...

mistakes were made

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Believe it or not, this phrase has its own entry in Wikipedia. Political consultant William Schneider suggested that this usage be referred...

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The cause of much contemporary misery in Western countries - criminality, domestic violence, drug addiction, aggressive youths, hooliganism,...

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No doubt a Soviet military conquest would have brought about a swifter and much more complete Sovietisation than did the crumbling of the So...
Friday, November 13, 2009

to those non-hat fetishists

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not already famililar with "moses," the world's premier paper hat designer, said Hawaiian hatmaster created some 250 original ...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

The hand of Tyr

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The only principles that seem to hold any sway anymore qua principles — whether they are held in a quest for power or in an intellectual con...

We hold this duncery to be self-evident:

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On November 5, addressing the crowd of anti-PelosiCare protesters, John Boehner, Republican minority leader in the House, whipped out an ob...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

In Memoriam

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wild rice What gets you is the knowledge, that sometimes can fall on you in a clap, that the dead are gone absolutely from this world. A...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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What is my point of view? 1. God is one of a number of superior intelligences who have learned-how we do not know exactly-to obtain glory a...

400 Members of Congress Not Suspected of Wrongdoing!

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An online “security breach” yesterday disclosed a confidential House Ethics Committee document which revealed that dozens of members of Cong...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

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"[Consider] the irrigated valleys of Utah. These were settled by comparatively poor men....They live on small farms. They enjoy economi...

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One kind of fault that pastors and spiritual directors must address is what is called the "besetting sin." One spiritual director ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

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if you ever woke up and forgot what you dreamed about, this picture might help you to recall

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of all flesh one people--today featuring: ethiopia

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1°58′24.34″N 20°29′43.64″E

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Zewhyexary

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Z is the Zenith from which we decline, While Y is your Yelp as you're twisting your spine. X is for Xmas; the alternative Is an X-ray th...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Hay for the Horses

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He had driven half the night From far down San Joaquin Through Mariposa, up the Dangerous Mountain roads, And pulled in at eight a.m. With h...

Montana Koan

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Mongolian fiancees Two fillies on the plains- was it their flowing manes or was it the wind that flew? The twisted sage maintains It was the...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

today's Mencken

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“The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not a...

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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development o...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Tomorrow

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As the risen Savior, He is this day and forever the Light of the World. It is He who invites us to come unto Him and serve Him, without dela...
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Back to the Constitution

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Our legal affairs correspondent, Ms. Bethany Richards, asks a provocative question about our supreme law: "The Constitution requires a...

what I learned at my funeral

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Alfred Nobel was inspired to create an award for contributions to peace after reading his obituary prematurely published by a French newspap...
Friday, October 9, 2009

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If it's not one thing, it's another. --Roseann Rosannadanna
Thursday, October 8, 2009

a letter from Joseph

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Upon returning from Jackson County in the Spring of 1832, Joseph's traveling companion, Newell K. Whitney, had his leg crushed when the ...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure? --Gertrude Stein
Monday, September 21, 2009

Follow the prophet

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Press reports have for some months indicated that a determined effort is in the making to establish in this country a compulsory universal m...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Souviens-toi, mon enfant--extraordinary hymn from the French LDS hymnal

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Remember, my child: Your divine parents held you in their arms, not long ago. Today, you are here, a marvelous present. Your gaze still shin...

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Do you want to live by faith? Do you want to know Christ aright? Do you want to awake and arise and live, but do not know how? I will tell y...