On the sweetness of Mormon Life. (more…)
If’n you know what’s good for you.
Relief Society Enrichment Meeting
Calls for his own impeachment were premature, he said, but he refused to rule it out. Or so I’m told.
Mormonism–acting out a self-conscious sense of community since 1830. And that’s a good thing.
[Today would be Betsey’s 8th birthday. This is what I wrote on her birthday four years ago.] (more…)
Testigos de Jehovah (Jehovah’s Witnesses) got under my skin when I was a missionary. One of the things that bugged me most was the infantile delight they took in telling you that they knew what God’s name was.
None of them ever could explain *why* knowing that his real name was “Jehovah” mattered and mostly they seemed surprised that I asked. If I were an uncharitable man, all the evidence would have pointed to them caring about God’s real name only because, “nyah, nyah, I know something you don’t know.” (more…)
On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)
Me (thumping my chest self-righteously): “I am not being self-righteous! YOU are being self-righteous by calling me self-righteous! It is self-righteous to call someone self-righteous!“
This intellectual cuss says he reckons he savvies why some states are blue and some are red. (more…)
Heaven Haven, by Gerard Manley Hopkins: (more…)
It came to me yesterday, amidst my busy schedule of plucking the gowans fine and imbibing potations in moderation, whom it was that the American President reminded me of. All in a flash–or in a sudden moment of illumination, if you prefer to put it that way, one of Jeeves’ gags–I saw it all. “Strike me pink, it’s Soapy Sid!”
I only wonder that a normally observant fellow like me missed it for so long. I mean to say, the two of them are practically twins, like wossname, Damocles and Psoriasis.
Respected Ninth Circuit Jurist Pulls a Marbury v. Madison, upholding a particular gun regulation while finding that the 2nd Amendment applies to the states.
On the sweetness of Mormon life–
I am waiting to pass the sacrament. Our newest deacon explains to me in whispers why “Rock of Ages” is wrong for an opening hymn. (more…)
