Monday, October 31, 2011

Joe Bageant's(RIP) letter to John Ashcroft

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"John, goddammit, we are going to have to thrash this thing out! Thanks to you, my librarian wife, who is pretty much the stereotypical...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Refuge

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Terry Tempest Williams can also remind us powerfully of our special connections to God as his chosen people. She tells of when her mother fi...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

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From the journal of Joseph Millett, who tells of his name being read out as a missionary in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in 1852, of making his ...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

the world has no use for a drone...

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Drone technology is advancing faster than the public or the legal system has time to catch up to their now ubiquitous use in America’s many ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

resolution

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The first of the rescued reached Salt Lake on November 9th, a day of tears and thanksgiving. For many days afterwards the others were stragg...
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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