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January 2017

January 14, 2017
    Well, strictly speaking, he's actually just slightly beyond the biblical era.  But this...
January 14, 2017
      I think that Elder Christofferson's description of the quadrennial presidential inauguration as...
January 14, 2017
    An interesting new challenge has been issued to a vocal former Latter-day Saint:...
January 14, 2017
    People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is...
January 13, 2017
    This situation doesn't receive nearly the amount of news coverage that it deserves,...
January 13, 2017
    This is really quite amazing.  When I was growing up, the usual way...
January 13, 2017
    Cody Quirk helpfully calls this item to my attention:   "Comcast won’t air...
January 13, 2017
    You can scarcely be surprised, today being Friday, that a new article has...
January 13, 2017
    You might think that, after many years of experience with it, I could...
January 12, 2017
    If these incidents represent actual Russian or pro-Russian hacking, which they may or may...
January 12, 2017
    Sheesh.  I almost forgot to post a note about the latest installment of...
January 12, 2017
    Orion Trunk has kindly called my attention to a 1979 conference address by...
January 12, 2017
    One of the courses I'm teaching this term focuses primarily on Islamic literature...
January 12, 2017
    When I was very young, the days immediately after Christmas -- heck, the...
January 11, 2017
    Intergalactic theft on the scale, almost, of the leaders of the LDS Church!...
January 11, 2017
    I'm taking a brief break now from the scandal of lavish General Authority stipends.  ...
January 11, 2017
    Wayne Dequer kindly called my attention to a Bloomberg piece that might help...
January 11, 2017
      Several people have shared these two quotations with me, and I appreciate...
January 10, 2017
    The scandal du jour that's agitating the embittered ex-Mormon hive (and that's, perhaps,...
January 10, 2017
    In ancient Rome, victorious generals were given a "triumph" or parade when they...
January 10, 2017
    For any faithful Latter-day Saint, the statement below should provide a foundation for...
January 10, 2017
    What follows is an excerpt from William Evenson, “Evolution,” in Daniel Ludlow, et al., eds., Encyclopedia...
January 09, 2017
    There's a virtually unending torrent of all kinds of bad news every day,...
January 09, 2017
      Make of this what you will:   The great object was to...
January 09, 2017
      And I'm really looking forward to this:      
January 09, 2017
    ’s-bountiful-been-discovered   If you're interested in this topic, here are two more good...
January 09, 2017
    This question could undoubtedly be debated forever, and it could potentially be answered...
January 09, 2017
    Rather often, when I'm reading online comments from some of the more embittered,...
January 08, 2017
       
January 08, 2017
    You may have missed this little item -- I did -- when it...
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