It looks like the men and boys of the priesthood will no longer gather in bodies of a few or several dozen thoughout the land to listen to their leaders cheer and admonish them from Salt Lake City. (link)

“Therefore, he took Moses out of their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also.”—Doctrine and Covenants 84:25

BYU students employ few of the traditional college stress relievers. Ergo, BYU students are unusually stressed out.        (more…)

NASA is running out of plutonium for deep-space batteries.

Is fully consistent with a most honorable tradition regarding portraiture:       (more…)

Occasionally His Majesty dredges up some parenting advice that is remarkably good, considering he’s an retired evil galactic overlord.  He shared the following bit of wisdom with me over his coffee and donuts this morning:     (more…)

Finishing up with back-to-school night at Ridgeview Middle School, a middle-aged woman in a skirt with a name tag walked down the hall toward me and past me. All the teachers’ name tags were white with black lettering, but this one was black with white lettering. When a bishop or stake president shows up at his eighth-graders’ school, his title is Mister, and his wife’s is Mrs. The call of a mission president and his wife is full-time, though, and even when attending her children’s needs, she is Sister to all she meets, to the saints and especially to the gentiles.

From our friend Bruce Charlton.      (more…)

And not so sacred.      (more…)

Bonhoeffer and 9/11.     (more…)

What does the fox say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

Snoring animals. http://youtu.be/_ubP5zHnlrE

I believe only live people should vote.

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I think this photo illustrates Obama’s attitude towards Netanyahu and Israel. Contrast with:
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No, this is not about a morally degenerate commercialization of tawdry sexuality. This is a completely different kind of moral degeneracy.

It seems that

Most young women want to get married, eventually. Fewer and fewer of them want to be wives. They are even less interested in being homemakers or helpmates.

For reason that do not need elaboration, the role of wife has been diminished, demeaned and degraded to the point where women believe that wives are gussied up domestic servants.