My Anti-Intellectual Rant
Posted on May 31, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 41 Comments
Over at Unofficial Manifesto, D-Train takes me to task over a conversation we had a few weeks ago concerning the role of the Spirit in academic progress in which I expressed my cynicism concerning academia and our educational system. His criticism is worth reading and I hope you will check it out.
As D-Train points […]
A rumor about a lack of war
Posted on May 31, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 20 Comments
Today I come to declare another reason for optimism: war is on the decline globally. Really.
Take a look at these two articles. The first is in The New Republic (registration required, but free four-week registration available and well worth it). The second in the New York Times (registration required).
But aren’t we […]
Beams, motes, and sepulchres
Posted on May 31, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 12 Comments
Anakin: The Sith are only concerned about themselves…about gaining power.
Palpatine: And the Jedi aren’t?
– Star Wars Episode III
Among the many criticisms and rebukes made by the Savior against the Pharisees of His time, ‘hypocrite’ (used 16 times in Matthew alone) is the most frequent…and probably the most damning. With His memorable phrase “whited sepulchres” […]
Read More..>>Mediterraneans in the New World?
Posted on May 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 49 Comments
There quite the buzz in some circles on a new paper relevant to the Book of Mormon. Jeff Lindsay at Mormanity has up a brief discussion of it. But there aren’t really a lot of discussions on it in the blogsphere. Undoubtedly that’s because most of us aren’t really that well versed […]
Read More..>>Educational Backgrounds of the Modern Apostles
Posted on May 26, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 24 Comments
Though I don’t have time to gather as much info as I wanted to (such as missionas served), I’ve decided to post this anyway. Here, culled from Ensigns, Church news, biographies, etc. are the educational and professional backgrounds of the current apostles, minus the most recent two.
President Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1961, date of calling […]
In Gratitude for the Flowered Path
Posted on May 26, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 4 Comments
This Springtime, you may be, as I am, struck with the raucous beauty of flowers. One’s first Spring in a home is always an intriguing moment– you learn what flowers you have in your yard simply by watching what grows up from the dirt. We’ve been pleasantly surprised to find several varieties of […]
Read More..>>A Movable Feast
Posted on May 25, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 3 Comments
On Sunday, by chance I caught the very tail end of The Chris Matthews Show. He was passing on some wisdom to the Class of 2005.
Chris Matthews was speaking about a “movable feast”, pulling from Hemingway’s memoir of the same name (which I’ve not read) and reflecting on his own experience in […]
Always Choose Life
Posted on May 25, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 42 Comments
In past posts, the issue of the proper role of government in preserving life has come up. Here is my take on the issue, from Meridian magazine.
Read More..>>Dual Spackman action! Now with 2X the blogging power! Kinda.
Posted on May 24, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 10 Comments
We are pleased to announce that Tanya Spackman (my cousin) will be signing on to M* as a permablogger. Tanya has put up some excellent guest posts and, gosh darnit, we like her.
Tanya is single and lives in Dugway, Utah. She served a mission in Chicago, and graduated from BYU in 1998 with […]
Millennial Star Classic Games: Digger
Posted on May 24, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 12 Comments
Sometime in 1984, I think, my parents purchased a personal computer with a four color monitor–that’s right: four colors! It came with a bootable floppy-disk (back then floppy disks really were floppy!) containing a curious little game, with no instructions, called Digger.
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