“I Don’t Tell My Child What to Believe” — Some thoughts on confusion between practice and belief in general.

I came across an interesting post where a mother describes how she doesn’t tell her daughter what she should believe.

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Sowell contrasts modern boxing with golden age boxing.

The voice of experience, or senile dementia?  (more…)

If there’s a Mormon mission out there with a mission rule against impersonating FBI agents, this is why.

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

President Maxwell taught us that we really only have our will to give. He’s right, but we’ve started giving a gift each year to Christ during the Christmas season, some small devotion usually. It lights up the season for us.

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 he may casually admit to wearing women’s cosmetics.

The company is going to start running three shifts on some of its assembly lines, a pretty much unprecedented practice. Why? (more…)

“Because its Christmas Eve, not Christmas Steve.” Coming soon to a surreally vast rightwing conspiracy near you.

This essay from Ross Douthat is brilliant. Ostensibly a review of Avatar, its really a bright light exposing the meaningless guff that is popular pantheism and naive nature worship (as opposed from serious conservationism and environmental protection). (more…)

Campaign finance reform. (more…)

A calculation of what the tax break for children should be.   (more…)

Good. We don’t want a state establishment of Zoroastrianism.

Though I’m surprised the trees themselves are allowed to remain. Even if you call them “holiday trees”, they seem like an establishment of German paganism to me.

“I went Christmas shopping this weekend. Or, if that’s too culturally IN YOUR FACE, Saturnalia shopping.” (more…)

Solo really was a mercenary, after all. (more…)