Pugilism. An aspect of proselyting sadly neglected in the MTC. Despite the excellent example of Elder Willard Bean, one of the Junior Ganymede’s official blog heroes.

American blacks, hispanics, lesbians, women, and cripples aren’t really analogous to Aryan Germans after all. That’s a relief.

After the Clinton Administration took it away from ’em in the arly 90s, it ‘pears the flyboys in the Air Force is sidling back to the idear of reusable spacecraft, ones that can go up and come back down again and up again and down again. Wull, don’t ask me, boys. What I puts in arbit stez in arbit.

On the sweetness of Mormon Life. (more…)

If’n you know what’s good for you.

Relief Society Enrichment Meeting

Calls for his own impeachment were premature, he said, but he refused to rule it out. Or so I’m told.

Official Jr. Ganymede blog hero.

Chrysler aka the Federal Government aka President Obama aka Soapy Sid is asking the bankruptcy court to extinguish its mortgages. (And who can blame Chrysler? I’d like my mortgage to be extinguished too. Shoot, go ahead and extinguish my conscience while you’re at it, your Honor. I’d rest easier without either of them.) But every ointment has a fly and in this case the owners of the mortgages are, rather meanly, objecting. (more…)

Mormonism–acting out a self-conscious sense of community since 1830. And that’s a good thing.

[Today would be Betsey’s 8th birthday. This is what I wrote on her birthday four years ago.] (more…)

Testigos de Jehovah (Jehovah’s Witnesses) got under my skin when I was a missionary. One of the things that bugged me most was the infantile delight they took in telling you that they knew what God’s name was.

None of them ever could explain *why* knowing that his real name was “Jehovah” mattered and mostly they seemed surprised that I asked. If I were an uncharitable man, all the evidence would have pointed to them caring about God’s real name only because, “nyah, nyah, I know something you don’t know.” (more…)