In which I offend my friends…
You’ve heard the parable of the brass serpent. Now hear the parable of Disney+.
I have just crossed a kind of threshold into middle age.
We were water fighting in the front yard on Saturday. And I saw a weed and I stopped to pull it out. And I saw a dry spot and I stopped to water it.
Lord, preserve me from myself.
The mind sin-stocked on every shelf.
The smug and imbecilic grin
Within.
The teleology of cancel culture is recreational lynching:
Thought:
Men read news because it combines two of the things they love: feeling they are part of a mob, while comfortably remaining in their armchair.
-plucked from the ether
If you have a business or a side business you can employ your children and they can put money into you a 401k. Which can in turn be converted into a self-directed IRA.
There are limits and wrinkles at all of these steps, due diligence required.
They say that history is on their side.
No. But legend and memory on our side.
Live worthy of the judgment of legend.
Be the myth that you would see in the world.
He punishes fiercely, rewards greatly, and remembers long.
I loved the Yankee Republic stories almost as much as I love Abraham Lincoln.
The best recommendation I can give to the book is its own epitaph.
If certain tales related by madmen and talking animals are to be believed, the world has already been destroyed and remade at least once, and it will go on existing long after we are gone, and all the worlds and the spaces in between are inhabited by strange life forms of which we know nothing, and the universe is more vast, and strange, and glorious than we can imagine.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_18141649
Essays, posts, and videos for Christmas time.
A Missionary Reminisce on Christmas — Ben Spackman
When the mission president announced to our small group of greenies that I was going to Strasbourg, I shrugged the resigned shrug of a missionary who knew nothing about anywhere but was willing to go wherever. One of the sisters expressed jealousy; Strasbourg, she said, was one of the best cities in the mission.
She was right, and it would not be a good thing.
Steve Sailer asks “What will Mormons do post Romney?” (more…)
We watched “Empire of the Sun” over the weekend, which I last saw in a movie theater 25 years ago. (more…)
NASA will crash two craft orbiting the moon into a mountain and examine the dust that flies up.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20121213.html
According to the Sacramento Bee, “Nevada health officials no longer will send psychiatric patients alone on buses to cities across the county.”
“The Bee’s investigation found that Rawson-Neal purchased Greyhound tickets for more than 1,500 patients since July 2008, dispatching people to every state in the continental United States”
Here’s a bunch of them at Millennial Star going on about their wish that the LDS Church would drop scouting.