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January 2017

January 19, 2017
    Permit me to introduce two people to you.   The first is Stephen Smoot....
January 19, 2017
    A rather optimistic article:     His attitude toward Muslims was one of...
January 19, 2017
    Yesterday, I posted a rather sardonic comment about the idiocy and aggressive hostility...
January 19, 2017
    Personally, I would have changed the title to "Is Social Psychology Biased against Conservatives?"...
January 19, 2017
    While we're waiting for the inevitable next scandal to come along, the recent controversy regarding...
January 19, 2017
    Yet another installment in my series of Thursday columns for the Deseret News:...
January 18, 2017
    "I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate...
January 18, 2017
    "The different sorts of madness are innumerable." Ibn Sina (Avicenna)      
January 18, 2017
    I'm sorry to say that I can't recall who it was who drew my...
January 18, 2017
    I've run into a number of people over the past week or so who've...
January 18, 2017
      On the other hand, rumor has it that Vladimir Putin will...
January 18, 2017
    "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be.  Be one."...
January 18, 2017
    I posted an item last night indicating that time is rapidly running out...
January 17, 2017
    If you're at all interested in coming on a Mediterranean cruise with, well,...
January 16, 2017
    We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.  Martin Luther King,...
January 16, 2017
    I'm very pleased to announce an exciting new competition for readers of Sic...
January 16, 2017
    I can sum up all the arguments used against Joseph Smith and "Mormonism”...
January 15, 2017
    I'm just a bit unhappy with the indispensable Jeff Lindsay on this one,...
January 15, 2017
    The continuation of social and family ties into the world to come was...
January 15, 2017
    Some treat science as if it were a sort of infallible oracle, like...
January 15, 2017
    It is, to coin an absolutely original metaphor, very easy to miss the...
January 15, 2017
    Character, not circumstances, makes the man. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)    
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...
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