Celebrate diversity!   Because, if you don’t, we’re coming after you.   http://abovethelaw.com/2016/01/is-homophobia-going-to-cost-this-law-school-its-accreditation/   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah     Read more

    ‘“There is no possible idea,” Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, “to which the mind of man can’t supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.”’ Charles Williams, War in Heaven   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah     Read more

    Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was killed in Oregon the other day by federal and local law enforcement personnel.   http://heavy.com/news/2016/01/lavoy-finicum-dead-dies-rip-funeral-youtube-school-family-ammon-bundy-arrested-malheur-standoff-wife-jeanette/   I can’t really speak to the specific merits of the protest in which he and others engaged, nor can I comment on the circumstances of his death.  I expect and trust that there will be an investigation.   I’ll say this, though:... Read more

    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/01/27/nfl-player-new-side-project-getting-his-phd-in-math.html?intcmp=hpffo&intcmp=obnetwork     Read more

    One of the most important and long-lasting acts of an American president is to nominate someone to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.   What kind of nominees would a President Trump send to the Senate for confirmation?   His enthusiastic support of government seizure of the property of little people for the benefit of large corporations probably affords one important clue.  (On that issue, see this article, published way back in April 2011, when... Read more

      http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historic-church-discovered-in-turkeys-nevsehir-could-change-history-of-orthodoxy.aspx?PageID=238&NID=94309&NewsCatID=375     Read more

    http://www.popsci.com/biggest-solar-system-ever-found-is-very-very-big     Read more

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430427/marco-rubio-iowa-surge-viral-video     Read more

    My longtime friend John Tvedtnes presented these remarks at the August 2004 FAIR conference:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2004-fair-conference/2004-the-king-follett-discourse-in-the-light-of-ancient-and-medieval-jewish-and-christian-beliefs     Read more

      A few brief notes on today’s reading, which is 2 Nephi 10.   Especially if one views of the Book of Mormon as a modern production, and especially in the light of the horrific treatment of Jews that has repeatedly scarred human history during the years intervening since 1830, it would be easy to suspect that 2 Nephi 10:3 is an expression of antisemitism when it refers to “the Jews, . . . those who are the more wicked part of the... Read more