Bill Nye reminds me of the Kardashians or, from an earlier era, the now largely-forgotten Paris Hilton:   His prominence (or notoriety) seems untethered to any actual achievement or merit or genuine significance.  In this particular case, he’s not a deep thinker.  He’s not a scientist.   http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/28/bill_nyes_view_of_humanity_is_repulsive_133738.html   And I really, really, really hate bow ties.  Why don’t the people who wear them follow things to their logical conclusion and put on red, bulbous clown noses, too?  And maybe... Read more

    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pope-visits-egypt-cairo-christians-under-attack-in-the-middle-east-can-they-stay-robert-fisk-a7705351.html     Read more

    An interesting article in the Deseret News by Hal Boyd:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678800/Are-Christians-Mormon.html   I’m happy to say that I myself will have a substantial article out by the end of the summer on Mormonism and the idea of “social trinitarianism.”     Read more

    An interesting piece by the valuable Stephen Smoot:   http://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2017/04/abraham-seer.html     Read more

    An interesting response to the “March for Science” from an emergency room physician and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School:   http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/the_march_for_science_was_eerily_religious.html     Read more

    She’s remarkable, and she very much deserves the honor:   http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/baroness-nicholson-receives-honorary-doctorate-byu     Read more

    “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.”     Read more

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678638/US-religious-freedom-commission-calls-out-Russia-in-its-annual-report.html?pg=all     Read more

    The Hamblin-Peterson Deseret News article for this weekend:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678804/Processing-fish-and-calling-apostles-on-the-Sea-of-Galilee.html?clear_cache=1     Read more

    Unfortunately, I missed this wonderful little item when it appeared in New York’s Saratogian newspaper on its centenary back in February:   http://www.saratogian.com/lifestyle/20170220/100-years-ago-in-the-saratogian-feb-20   If only Ms. Lulu could be alive today!   Of course, nowadays she could just plug Islam and shari‘a in at the appropriate places in her talk, and she would be ready with a second gripping presentation.  In the late fifties and early sixties, she could have spoken about papist plots to subvert our Protestant Christian... Read more