The only other school banned from providing distance learning? American School. From the American School front page: “Our students are all ages and from all walks of life. Even well-known celebrities like Dancing with the Stars winner Donny Osmond …” Donny Osmond? Count me among those convinced that the NCAA…
Nobody understands the Jews better than the Mormons
There are no people in the world who understand the Jews like the Mormons. Quote attributed to no less than David Ben-Gurion himself by none other than Ezra Taft Benson. And, boy, was I glad to run across this quote today. Because a question has been bugging me, and I’ve…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Facts and Interpretations Edition!
When studying history, it’s hard to separate fact from interpretation. Chris Smith argues that it may not be possible. And even a simple question like when to use Obama’s middle name in textbooks has an ideological component. Meanwhile, faithful-LDS blogger DKL really gets it right in his defense of Fawn…
ExMormon — The Final Chapter!
Many of you are no doubt aware that almost all of the novel ExMormon has been posted online — serialized from here. And now it’s getting to be time to finally post the last chapter! There’s just one catch: Remember how I’ve said that each of the individual novellas can…
Movie Preview Funny!
First watch this preview. Then watch this one. Please compare and contrast in the comments. 😉
Deseret News, David Cross, Hipster Comedians, and the Untold Story of Joseph Smith
Deseret News recently mentioned David Cross’ latest release and called it “a probable R.” After listening to this track, I’d probably agree (technical note: the clip ends at 3:40 with Dave’s “sowwy” … nothing but dead air after that): Memo to hipster comedians: If you’re gonna rail, make some effort…
Drinking Coke
We’ve discussed before how difficult it is to determine official mormon doctrine. Policies and guidelines seem to change with the generations, with geographical area or with personal revelation. I’ve heard from two different sources that someone very high up in mormon priesthood and corporate leadership drinks coke on a regular…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Freedom of Expression Edition!
The fun this week centered around Everybody draw Muhammad Day! Quite a lot of people drew Muhammad or thought about it. I didn’t get around to it (or, perhaps, I was with free expression in principle, but didn’t want my own family killed on principle). Meanwhile, there was a fascinating…
um, was I right?
In this earlier post I suggested that calling the Mormon Church a hate church may get them to change their position on same-sex marriage. I didn’t get a lot of takers on that position, but I have to wonder if maybe I was right. Turns out that the champion of…
National Day of Prayer – bye bye!
My crazy uncle (who I really like) just send me one of his amazing emails. Here’s the email with some comments I couldn’t help but add included in blue: HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY for Andy Rooney (hilarious that they think Andy Rooney would write this!). I myself have been grumbling and…