My morning shuttle pilot insists on listening to radio stations I would not myself choose to tune in to. (more…)

The church is launching a new Mormon.org with a home page/profile for every member who wants one The buzz is interesting. (more…)

“Which prompts the thought that the Europeans are post-Christian in this sense, too: they have tried to “liberate” themselves from the curse of Adam by substituting borrowing for working, and from the curse of Eve by not having children. It was entirely foreseeable that neither of these efforts would end well.” (more…)

I voted for Obama and I confess I loved his famous speech on religion in America.

So this Freakonomics podcast episode about how he wasn’t even an active Church goer, but covered that fact up, is a little disappointing. Ah well, you know what you’re getting when you vote for any politician I suppose.

“Negative again, Bub. Nature beat me to it.”    (more…)

Try your hand at reducing the deficit. It’s tough.

Something like this (for-profit lenders taking a share in your future income in return for paying for your education) strikes me as a much better way of financing education than loans and subsidies to everybody. But there’s a lot of devils to be worked out of the details and at the endpoint you run into a 13th Amendment problem.

The novel that inspired the discussion apparently has parents getting a share of their kids’ future too. It sounds distasteful to our sensibilities, but I think its a wonderful idea.

Today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. (more…)

British NHS doctors fail to spot 6″ toilet brush handle embedded in woman’s derriere.

Bork bork bork!

One never quite understands the American delight in banging on about their Constitution, not that I say a word against it, an inestimable document of the inestimablest, but for those who like that sort of thing this is now oojah-cum-spiff.

as alternative medicine is to medicine.    (more…)

A devastating critique of  the execrable All in the Family:    (more…)

The Salt Lake Tribune reports on the coming replacement of Carolyn Tanner Irish as bishop of the Utah Diocese under the headline “Next bishop’s big challenge: Grow a shrinking Episcopal Church in Utah”: (more…)

Wasn’t it Mencken who said that sometimes you just gotta raise the black flag and start cutting throats?