Dallas Jolley has granted me permission to repost this item, which, he says, comes from a friend:   The Americans With No Abilities Act (ANAA). The Democratic Senate is considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many more Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills and ambition. “Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess... Read more

    There is considerable truth in this:   http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/02/irrational-fear-of-shari-ah-law-what-of-jewish-halakha-courts-or-mormons-001488941.html     Read more

    “One of the categories of people I don’t like much are intellectuals.  People say, ‘Oh, you’re an intellectual,’ and I say, ‘No!’  What is an intellectual?  An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.” Paul Johnson   Read more

    I think that this is a pretty perceptive and insightful article about a division within (broadly speaking) American conservative ranks:   “The O’Reilly Divide”   Read more

    Blessings on the people of Quincy in the 1830s and 1840s, and upon John Wood:   http://www.whig.com/20170213/new-book-tells-how-quincy-offered-refuge-to-fleeing-mormons-in-1839   A small thing:  Whenever I’ve been in the area, I’ve always tried to spend a bit of money (for groceries, or a meal, or gas, or something) in Quincy.  It’s a very insignificant way of signaling my remembrance and my gratitude.     Read more

    A very short but quite important statement, making a point that needs to be kept in mind:   https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/we-live-in-a-pre-truth-universe/?WT.mc_id=send-to-friend     Read more

    It could be rather bad.  Especially if it hit your house:   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128512-ancient-carvings-show-comet-hit-earth-and-triggered-mini-ice-age/   But what if it hit Kim Jong Un’s house?  Or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s?  Or Ayman al-Zawahiri’s cave?  Or the Kardashians?     Read more

      Steven Olsen delivered this important presentation at the 2007 FairMormon conference:   https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/august-2007/is-the-church-archives-closed     Read more

    Not bad.  And Utah as a whole fares rather well in this regard because . . .  well, guess who Number 1 is?  (I’ve heard of the place somewhere before.  I think it’s in Farmington, or maybe in Tremonton.)   http://news.byu.edu/news/byu-named-one-nation’s-best-commercializing-research-innovations     Read more

    “I belong to the group of scientists who do not subscribe to a conventional religion but nevertheless deny that the universe is a purposeless accident. Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it merely as a brute fact. There must, it seems to me, be a deeper level of explanation. Whether one wishes to call that... Read more