Senior sexting.  (more…)

This doesn’t look at all like me. (more…)

Debunking the Obama-Einstein connection: (more…)

Unclear on the concept

And yet, it would be surprising if there weren’t one or two of these out of the millions handled by the Post Office.

This article talks about a proposal on how to teleport energy via quantum entanglement. (See actual paper here.)  Based on everything I’ve ready about the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics, particularly this paper by Frank Tipler, if you really could teleport energy, that would disprove the MWI, wouldn’t it? (Since MWI says there is no quantum non-locality)  (more…)

Gentlemen whose tastes incline to the historical can do no better than this excellent review of recent writing on the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Empire needs you.

I am really hoping that this article captures (perhaps poorly) a real attempt to reach out and sincerely address the needs of people with same-sex attraction without being untrue to ourselves and teachings.

If you can see past the SLtrib intentional spin, it seems like we might have a story here of some very productive approaches to how to better integrate our teachings and a more Christ-like and emphathetic approach to those with same-sex attraction. (more…)

With a fried chicken special. (more…)

B.J. Harrison’s The Classic Tales podcast just started doing Right Ho, Jeeves in an eight part, weekly series.  The program is free, but only if you get it fresh.  After two weeks, it is only available for a fee.  So subscribe forthwith.

Stephen Fry’s endorsement: “The masterly episode where Gussie Fink-Nottle presents the prizes at Market Snodsbury grammar school is frequently included in collections of great comic literature and has often been described as the single funniest piece of sustained writing in the language. I would urge you, however, to head straight for a library or bookshop and get hold of the complete novel Right Ho, Jeeves, where you will encounter it fully in context and find that it leaps even more magnificently to life.”

Found this one listening to the Radio West podcast. The interview was with Philip K. Howard, that wrote Life without Lawyers. (With apologies to all the lawyer bloggers, this really isn’t a negative view about lawyers at all. The name is misleading.)

There is this kind of general notion, that is still the presumption in this society, that a law suit just a dispute between two parties. But that’s not true. What people can sue for establishs the boundaries of everyone elses freedom.

Reading via the internet, one can find any number of people who wish the entire Church were inactive so as to accommodate their preference for avoiding human contact with their coreligionists. Sunday School should be eliminated and leadership meetings and seminary and stake conference and MIA activities and proselyting missions, and couldn’t sacrament meeting be cut to half hour and held quarterly? Because “I dislike being in the same room with other people” lacks something as a rallying cry, often the would-be destroyers proclaim their devotion to service and dream of all the service they would be performing if the church wasn’t holding them back. I have my doubts.

A frequent target for the misanthropes is scouting. I wish to take up one small item that the anti-scouts throw down every time as an example of the silliness of scouting: knot tying. What kind of person never learned the square knot and the bowline? Answer: an incompetent person. A wise, experienced mother training our district’s den chiefs one Saturday said something that has stuck with me the eighteen years since: Scouts do craft activities because a boy who doesn’t learn to do things with his hands becomes a man who is handicapped. There are a number of cub scouts in whose hands I placed a hammer or a screwdriver for the first time. As with the tactile, so with the social. A couple times teaching knots makes it abundantly clear how socially useful the activity is, besides being a lot of fun playing with rope. The boys learn, and then they teach others. After watching this happen a few times, I thought “No wonder knot tying is the stereotypical scouting activity!” “Misfit loner” is a label that most people could apply to their own feelings during some period of their own youth. Scouting is an excellent setting for a boy to begin getting experienced at something, and then share his nascent skills with the next boy.

“One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.”—from Baden-Powell’s farewell

Republican voters are ignorant and stupid (more…)

Is alive and well and living in New York City. (more…)