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May 2017

May 27, 2017
    The other day, I suggested that the adjective coward doesn't really fit the suicide...
May 27, 2017
    An interesting and provocative critique of the common wisdom:      
May 27, 2017
    An interesting short piece from Stephen Smoot:     Like him, I cannot...
May 27, 2017
    It's Saturday!   But alas, it's one of those twenty-six Saturdays a year...
May 26, 2017
    I'm a bit late in announcing this new Interpreter article.  But I've been...
May 26, 2017
    "Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right." William E. Gladstone  ...
May 26, 2017
    Somehow, in all my years of coming to Britain and France, I've never...
May 26, 2017
    "The Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory is Shameful Nonsense"   Fortunately, I've been on...
May 26, 2017
    This is an interesting development.  I'm not sure that it indicates a trend,...
May 25, 2017
      Posted from London, England    
May 25, 2017
    An interesting article about astronomical activity sponsored by the Vatican:    ...
May 25, 2017
    Another pseudo-intellectual tissue of lies and wicked ad hominems in the Deseret News:...
May 25, 2017
    "Nurture your minds with great thoughts.  To believe in the heroic makes heroes."...
May 25, 2017
    An, ummm, rather irreverent little article:     Posted from London, England...
May 25, 2017
    A tiny aspect of the enormous and varied good done by the Church...
May 25, 2017
    For those of you who might be unaware of it, there's a treasure...
May 25, 2017
    The Trumps can easily be criticized on many fronts, but criticisms of Melania...
May 25, 2017
      But Saturn remains magnificent, and it's (obviously) much nearer and much...
May 25, 2017
    A nice little 2012 official essay from the Church of Jesus Christ of...
May 25, 2017
    I think that this is a really important point, as well as an...
May 24, 2017
    This very brief little video is deeply significant and, to me, deeply moving:...
May 24, 2017
    "Mormon church dedicates Paris temple in style"   Posted from Le Chesnay, France...
May 24, 2017
    Sadly, it's pretty clear that he's not doing well:     Posted...
May 24, 2017
    A podcast interview with Brian and Laura Hales:     Posted from...
May 24, 2017
      Not everybody will agree with her specific examples, but she makes a...
May 24, 2017
    A very interesting article about developments beyond Mormondom:     Posted from...
May 24, 2017
    Charles de Gaulle bestrides the twentieth-century history of France like a colossus.  He...
May 24, 2017
    A new discovery suggests that, contrary to common notions, Africa isn't the evolutionary...
May 24, 2017
    Jeff Lindsay reports on an interesting argument from the pages of Interpreter: A...
May 24, 2017
    President Trump called the perpetrators of the Manchester attack "losers."   That seems...
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