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.

AKA Noah’s covenant, aka, the most butt-kicking, hairy-chested, hidebound, hardshell covenant of shazam in the world. Steaks, sex, and the firing squad, man.

On the sweetness of Mormon Life. (more…)

One suggests seeds.

Frankincense may have cancer-combating properties.

Matt Evans wonders why Planned Parenthood won’t run a Superbowl ad extolling some woman who courageously had her unborn child aborted.

T&S is collecting testimonies. Some of them would be at home in a Unitarian congregation, but some of them are well worth your time.

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

Apparently you can identify politics and party affiliation by looking at people’s faces. (more…)

Maggie Gallagher tells me that this study shows that married biological parents blow all other parent categories out of the water when it comes to not burning the little tykes with cigarettes. (more…)

Republicans, Tea Partiers, and ornery citizens everywhere are celebrating the amazing Scott Brown victory. They have every right to. But they may wish to consider the wisdom of J.R.R. Tolkien. (more…)

This essay from Ross Douthat is brilliant. Ostensibly a review of Avatar, its really a bright light exposing the meaningless guff that is popular pantheism and naive nature worship (as opposed from serious conservationism and environmental protection). (more…)

How, nine years into our marriage, could our sex life still be under the thumbs of exes we no longer talked to or even desired? The thought made me angry and nauseated.

“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.”
-De Maistre

Its pretty good. (more…)