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Gay Marriage of Convenience

May 29th, 2014 by Bookslinger

It’s here. With a couple different meanings.

[Edited so as not to give link-cred to certain web sites.]

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May 29th, 2014 13:52:56

A belated Memorial Day post

May 29th, 2014 by Vader

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May 29th, 2014 07:49:04

“He’s not Dead, He’s in a ‘Deep Meditative State'” sounds a lot like …

May 28th, 2014 by Bookslinger

“pining for the fjords.”

Being kept in a freezer sort of gives away the answer.

Cultural reference here.

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May 28th, 2014 14:48:45

Counter the Stupidity Gradient

May 28th, 2014 by John Mansfield

my ivory towerFor a couple years I had an office at UCLA in a building called Engineering IV, a much nicer building than the utilitarian name might imply. My office and those of most I dealt with were on the fourth floor, but many mornings I would first ride the elevator up to the fifth floor to look out a large floor-to-ceiling window toward the southwest. Now and then the haze was light enough that I could see the ocean. There were no classrooms or lecture halls in this building, only offices and lab space, but it was a public building on a public university campus, so the hallways were open to the public, and we were told not to kick any strange people out, just call campus security if there was a problem.

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May 28th, 2014 13:09:19

What is Apostasy, and the road thereto?

May 26th, 2014 by Bookslinger

President George Q. Cannon:

“A friend … wished to know whether we … considered an honest difference of opinion between a member of the Church and the Authorities of the Church was apostasy…. We replied that we had not stated that an honest difference of opinion between a member of the Church and the Authorities constituted apostasy, for we could conceive of a man honestly differing in opinion from the Authorities of the Church and yet not be an apostate; but we could not conceive of a man publishing those differences of opinion and seeking by arguments, sophistry and special pleading to enforce them upon the people to produce division and strife and to place the acts and counsels of the Authorities of the Church, if possible, in a wrong light and not be an apostate, for such conduct was apostasy as we understood the term.” (Deseret News, November 3, 1869.)
From: http://emp.byui.edu/marrottr/ToHumbleFollowers.htm
Ezra Taft Benson quoting George Q. Cannon in his General Conference talk. Conference Report, April 4, 1969, 10-15. Improvement Era, June 1969, 43-47.

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Four 1839-42, p.156:

I will give you one of the Keys of the mysteries of the Kingdom. It is an eternal principle, that has existed with God from all eternity: That man who rises up to condemn other, finding fault with the Church, saying that they are out of the way, while he himself is righteous, then know assuredly, that that man is in the high road to apostasy; and if he does not repent, will apostatize, as God lives. The principle is as correct as the one that Jesus put forth in saying that he who seeketh a sign is an adulterous person; and that principle is eternal, undeviating, and firm as the pillars of heaven; for whenever you see a man seeking after a sign, you may set it down that he is an adulterous man.

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May 26th, 2014 19:47:57

Memorial Day

May 25th, 2014 by Vader

Some past posts that have already said pretty much everything I would say.

In case you thought it was National Barbeque Day.

Sacred remembrances

No one says it like Lincoln says it.

More sacred remembrance.

It is one of the great American paradoxes — perhaps not just American, but I see it most here — that we so honor the warrior while so hating war. Right both ways.

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May 25th, 2014 08:00:11

Morse Code Girls

May 24th, 2014 by John Mansfield

Sarah Alydia Terry Winsor (1857-1950), my great-great-grandmother, as remembered by her niece Orilla W. Hafen in 1961:

Aunt Lydia was one of the girl telegraph operators of pioneer days. The Deseret Telegraph line was extended from St. George to the mining camps of Pioche and Ely, Nevada in 1872, and it was found necessary to open an office in Hebron. (more…)

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May 24th, 2014 06:01:13

Don Montoya, call your office

May 23rd, 2014 by Vader

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May 23rd, 2014 09:40:10

It takes a lot more than a Village

May 18th, 2014 by Zen

A survey the government’s Cabinet Office released last April quantifies the disquieting rise of the problem. In 2003, the number of single people aged 35-44 living with their parents was 1.91 million. In 2007 it was 2.62 million; in 2012, 3.05 million. Journalist Masaki Ikegami, who has researched the issue extensively, tells Shukan Post that of people aged 20 to 64 living in Tokyo’s Tamachi district, at least one in 20 is in a state of hikikomori – and 30% of them are over 40. That suggests a nationwide total of 300,000 hikikomori people over 40.

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Is it entirely the children’s fault? Or society’s? True, the economy collapsed just as they were coming of age, creating one, two or three (depending on who’s counting) “lost generations” of young people who never had a chance – or who, some say, were too spoiled or spineless to rise to the challenge. But counselor Fujiya Tomita claims it’s the parents who have most to answer for. “The parents were busy at work,” he says, “and the harder they worked the more prosperous they grew. Child-raising was left to daycare centers, to schools, to juku. The parent-child bond grew weaker.” Something snapped in the kids as a result, he seems to be saying – maybe the gumption that would have seen them through the tough times ahead.

Japan Today

It seems that a village just doesn’t cut it when it comes to parenting.
Or a daycare, or much of anything else. If there was an easy way to do a quality job, it would have been done a very long time ago.

Also more on hikkomori from the BBC and NYT

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May 18th, 2014 19:31:27

The American public discourse

May 18th, 2014 by Vader

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May 18th, 2014 13:28:40

Dispelling tornado safety myths

May 15th, 2014 by Vader

Don’t worry about equalizing the pressure. The roof ripping off and the pickup truck smashing through the front wall will equalize the pressure for you.

–Popular Mechanics

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May 15th, 2014 11:11:39

Suicides by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation

May 11th, 2014 by Vader

Correlate extremely closely with U.S. government spending on space, science, and technology.

It’s almost the same in the Galactic Empire. Deaths by strangulation correlate closely with spending on Star Destroyers and Death Stars.

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May 11th, 2014 13:24:15

Some disquieting cultural indicators

May 10th, 2014 by Vader

Words not recognized by my HTML composer’s spell checker, and its recommended substitutions:

Filariasis. Recommended: Satyriasis.

Neuropathy. Recommended: Homeopathy.

 

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May 10th, 2014 22:18:37

Putting some rumors to bed

May 10th, 2014 by Vader

It seems appropriate at this time to solemnly declare that, notwithstanding ugly rumors to the contrary, I am not Dick Cheney.

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May 10th, 2014 19:04:23

First there was Battle of the Bands …

May 10th, 2014 by Vader

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