Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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An article at AlterNet asks: "Mental Illness Rates Are Up. Could Climate Change Be to Blame?," by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. For ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Some Lessons of 9/11

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1. Killing one or many innocents, regardless of one's grievances, is monstrous. This elementary principle would seem to apply to George ...

keeping my yuan in the U.S.

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The evil dragon used to be Japan. Now it's China. India will get its turn soon enough. Americans are supposedly out of work because of C...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Sigrid Undset as a young girl
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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Artist Alexa Meade paints real people to look like paintings.

Contract With Atrocity

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Amazing news story: The Guardian reports on a remarkable case of private contractors who flew American Terror War captives to various sites...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error....

reflections on the rioting

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Only the wilfully blind could have been surprised by the scale or ferocity of the riots that have engulfed Britain in the past week. Unfor...

FBI: Nation's largest terrorist organization

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A recent report put together by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkley analyses some...

Intelligence and Affection by Parley P. Pratt

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Man, (and woman) know thyself, -study thine own nature, -learn thy powers of body, -thy capacity of mind. Learn thine origin, thy purpose ...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

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A few years after Henry Bennion Eyring became president of Ricks College (now Brigham Young University–Idaho), he was offered a high-payin...

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. - Hannah Arendt

called to serve

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I have had [many] experiences feeling of the Holy Ghost…But I’ve never felt what I have felt as I have…participated in the assigning of miss...

Rules for Radicals

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In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tacti...
Friday, July 8, 2011

The great Sheldon Richman

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About that Debt Limit Maxing out the credit card panics the politicians. What’s the point of a debt ceiling if raising it is a mere formalit...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

First Muscle Lady speaks

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“But I think that the last four years have shown us the truth of what Barack has always said: That if any child in this country is left behi...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

this is your brain on leeches

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Maggot therapy is an example of a medical approach called biotherapy--the use of living animals to aid in medical diagnosis or treatment. Le...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

disappearing species

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A hat tip to our peripatetic animal rights reporter, Thelonius Royal, for calling our attention to this latest outrage: our animal friends t...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

lest we forget

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Stephen Glass perpetrated one of the great journalistic frauds in modern American history. In 1998 Glass, a 25-year-old rising star at the N...
Monday, June 20, 2011

the besetting sin

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Moral theology classifies the sins or faults of man in various ways. It is a discipline with its own taxonomy. One kind of fault that pastor...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

cool news story

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Reporting from Washington— After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered countr...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

a prayer

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Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the ea...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Not in the Loop?

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In Tuscaloosa, Obama said he's never seen such devastation. Doesn't the Pentagon show him the bombing reports?
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden (10/15/01)

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"After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only t...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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When “Mormonism” finds favor with the wicked in this land, it will have gone into the shade; but until the power of the Priesthood is gone, ...

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Students in our colleges and universities live constantly in a tension between two authority systems: one more or less vaguely associated wi...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

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In recent years I have felt, and I think I am not alone, that we are losing the ability to correct the course of the church. You cannot appr...
Friday, April 8, 2011

peanute butter--better than the segue

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Plumpy'nut is a peanut-based food for use in famine relief which was formulated in 1997 by André Briend, a French paediatric nutritionis...

the little things you do

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A really good toss-out screener never gets caught. We can only judge among those toss-out screeners who get caught. There is n...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

They Know More Than We Do

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(click to expand) On NBC's Meet The Press, US Secretary of Defense explains the sophistication of our enemy in Afghanistan: Tim Russert:...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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The modern state – the state birthed in the Protestant Enlightenment – possesses two very important monopolies. The first is on the moral an...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

good advice from blogger

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In response to a pessimistic political affairs blog by Chris Floyd, a disheartened reader wrote to ask: "I try to be noisy about this s...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

as a man thinketh

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I mean that I really did see myself, and my real self, committing the murders...I mean that I thought and thought about how a man might come...
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scripture

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James Faulconer spends a good deal of time discussing approaches to scriptural texts. Latter-day Saints, he believes, may be tempted to read...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

on bustin up a chifferobe

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BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY. Collin Wilcox died last October, just as we were about to settle in for our annual viewing of To Kill a Mockingbir...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Most readers, when trying to plow their way through [William F.] Buckley's "On the one hand... on the other hand" rhetoric, mu...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

no, no, they can't take that away from me

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There is such a thing as lovesickness for good horses and mules, and for this there is no cure. People who operate machines know nothing lik...