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January 2017

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...
January 08, 2017
    In this less-than-five-minute-long video -- brought to my attention by Alex Barclay -- the noted...
January 08, 2017
    Polygamy represents one of the most emotion-stirring and, for many, most difficult issues...
January 08, 2017
    British-born Elder James E. Talmage served as a member of the Quorum of...
January 08, 2017
    I'm grateful to Doug Ealy for calling this important piece of investigative journalism...
January 08, 2017
    "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and...
January 07, 2017
    This site could teach us something about ancient Egyptian boatbuilding:    ...
January 07, 2017
    Some time ago, I mentioned Bølgen ("The Wave"), a really impressive -- that...
January 07, 2017
    Sister Jan Chamberlin has been receiving international attention.   For the sake of...
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