Holding a suspect until the police arrive isn’t vigilante justice. It’s sustaining and upholding the law.

This is the best explanation of what sport and competition is about that I’ve seen. (more…)

Richard Lowry decries the unmanfulness of modern men.

A prospective groom should already know the answer before he asks the question in public.

Of course, asking the question just before being fed to hungry monsters has its own perils and advantages.

As has been evident all along, the debate over gay marriage and special protections for homosexuality in law wasn’t really a debate about equality. It’s about gay privilege at the expense of religious freedom. (more…)

I can’t vouch for the quality of it, but apparently there is a body of evidence that families with sons are less likely to divorce. (more…)

Here’s a fairly comprehensive statistical look at the Saints in America. (more…)

I don’t know if it’s possible to believe same-sex attraction is disordered, and homosexual relations sinful, and not be considered homophobic, even if you strive to separate the temptation from the person. That does seem to be the razor’s edge the Church has walked of late, and I’m trying to do the same.

So does my gut reaction to the following image show I still have a long ways to go? (Warning: Your eyes may run screaming from their sockets.)      (more…)

Some anti-Mormons are anti-Mormon innocently. They do not sin in their anti-Mormonism. They only err. (more…)

Some people have a problem when they do a literal reading of “smote off his head” in the case of Nephi killing Laban (1 Nephi 4:18), and Coriantumr killing Shiz (Ether 15:30-31).  Common questions are “How could Shiz raise up on his hands and struggle for breath if he had been decapitated?”  and “Wouldn’t Laban’s clothes have been covered in blood and gore, and wouldn’t Laban’s servant Zoram have noticed the blood?” (Warning: the rest of this gets gory and technical.) (more…)

In the hold of a Japanese “hell ship” transporting prisoners of war to Japan:     (more…)

The worst part of the damn photoreceptors is how they interfere with weeping.

Don’t castrate lambs with your teeth.

His Majesty: “Being powerful with the Force means never having to come into actual physical contact with your victims.”

From Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath:
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Rebukes might be too strong and too little a word. Say rather that Eliza R. Snow transcends feminism in this quote: (more…)