I just picked up an audio copy of Past Imperfect on the recommendation of Orson Scott Card. I’m really liking it so far. (more…)

Obama administration encouraged by steady unemployment rate.

Sad thing is, I think no increase in unemployment is relatively good news, too.

Though I worry that the Tea Party folks will be indiscriminate in their cuts when the revolution comes, and Death Star Inc. will suffer.

So Aslan smites his enemies hip and thigh? I’d read it. Except that’s pretty much already in the Christian Narnia.

Via Hugh Hewitt: (more…)

Temples may have led to cities and then agriculture, and not the other way around.

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about the changes in the Boy Scout Manual over the years. Used to be it had ads for hunting ammo. Now it has detachable pamphlets on sex abuse. Recommended.

This kind of stuff worries me. Not because I disagree with it. I don’t. But modern America is completely messed up on issues of sex, identity, and equality. I bet 40 years ago people were starting to say similar things about homosexuality.

Does this mean that Mormons really do worship a different Jesus? One’s bean is too full of airy nothings to tell. I asked Jeeves about it, but the fellow was rather shirty on the subject. Said that even a dashed tophole gentleman’s personal gentleman might cavil at explicating matters of philo-theological concern, or words to that effect.

Apparently has been a Democratic meme longer than I thought.  (more…)

Dennis Prager:  (more…)

He’s not just a Mormon. He’s a Vulcan.

I wanted to Photoshop Romney doing the Vulcan salute, but I lack the skillz.

It’s not just his subcutaneous fat that is massive. Read it for yourself.

A counterpoint to my recent post: (more…)

When the government pays for it: $78,000.

Materials and labor: $4,255

The rest pays for the bureaucrats.

Death Star Inc. has the kind of waste one would expect of a government bureaucracy, and I’ll happily admit I wonder sometimes how I can justify my salary. But, Holy Palpatine, that’s an impressive overhead. Most impressive.