This Blog will now doff its hats. It happens there are ladies online.
One of the most malign of modern trends is the disappearance of men from the ranks of public school teachers and the decline in the number of woman teachers who wield a ruler. I got a testimony of this recently. (more…)
I always laugh when I see some student at BYU, e.g., courageously defying the campus in the service of some cause dear to the elite consensus, like protesting Dick Cheney. Acting as a mouthpiece for the powerful against remnant local resistance requires a little courage, I guess, but not much. Speaking truth for power ain’t that hard. (more…)
What’s your favorite? I’ve read Shelby Foote’s Civil War several times, though more as an American devotion than for the military history. And I always skip the epilogue. Davis might have been a fine fellow but he still should have been hanged.
Keegan is always very readable.
Pugilism. An aspect of proselyting sadly neglected in the MTC. Despite the excellent example of Elder Willard Bean, one of the Junior Ganymede’s official blog heroes.
Official Jr. Ganymede blog hero.
Bed.
I AM the milishy, all by my lonesome. Yeehah!
Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers do not pay for themselves. So why not tax estates? The money has to come from somewhere, so why not from the dead? (more…)
In a chapter called Knights and Squires, right after a chapter where Ishmael defended the dignity of whaling on the grounds that whale oil is used to anoint the kings of England, Melville has Ishmael praise democracy and equality. Ironic, no? (more…)
Go join the Mormon Battallion patriotic Choir. Honor your past and your country.