What is a freedom? Here’s one quick and dirty guide. (more…)
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…)
“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hopes.”
–Moby Dick, ch. 7. Discuss. (more…)
President Uchtdorf reminded us that last Sunday was Palm Sunday. (more…)
Go join the Mormon Battallion patriotic Choir. Honor your past and your country.
Mr. Baruch Spinoza did not define monotheism that way, sir. I have always found him to be a reliable guide in these matters, sir. Thank you, sir.
Every Mormon knows Jacob’s sermon in Jacob 2 where he condemns unchastity and men who sexually dishonor women. Less known is that Jacob begins the sermon denouncing pride. (more…)
This johnny has a head for figures, what?
While Mormons are fighting the marriage wars, the cool Christians are fighting about physics and the multiverse. Hmm. Is it possible for a stick to have two short ends? (more…)
The answer is that it’s like being apostate and stupid. Wanted: a better class of Mormon progressive. You know you’re out there.
If your family is having a hard time making ends meet, as mothers one thing we can do to help is to make hard choices and cut back even on things we really enjoy. Maybe its time to suck it up and off one of your kids. (more…)
Three-Mile Island was a successful failure. Breakdowns will happen, and the fact that the breakdown of the Three-Mile Island atomic pile was so inconsequential is a tribute to the engineers who built her and to the inherent safety of nuclear power outside Russia.
