A Psalm in Bureaucratic Translation
Posted on July 31, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 7 Comments
Who can identify the translator and passage without Googling?
“Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.”
Money: The Root Of All…Good?
Posted on July 28, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 46 Comments
Here’s an interesting article/book review from Megan McArtle (aka Jane Galt) about the positive aspects of being wealthy. (Positive aspects other than…you know, having more money)
Read More..>>Jews for Jesus
Posted on July 26, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 34 Comments
I’m currently working in New York, and there is something unique on what seems like every street corner here: people passing out Jews for Jesus literature. Some of the literature is actually quite clever. So, in the tradition of these pamphlets, I will ask the denizens of the Bloggernacle to consider a provocative […]
Read More..>>Ken Jennings back in the news
Posted on July 26, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 15 Comments
Mormon Jeopardy icon Ken Jennings has been finding out that blogging can be hazardous to your public image. Take a look here. Ken also got ripped by the NY Post here. Ken responded yesterday pointing out that his comments were, um, tongue in cheek. The trouble all started with Ken’s blog […]
Read More..>>Charity and Scams
Posted on July 25, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 24 Comments
It is not uncommon for scams of various flavors to be disguised as charitable activity. One example is the car donation industry. When billboards and radio ads promoting this activity became ubiquitous, I naively supposed they were appealing to the charitable generosity of people with spare cars they didn’t need anymore, and that […]
Read More..>>Shopping on the Sabbath revisited…
Posted on July 25, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 54 Comments
“Now Closed Sundays!” read the store marquee located prominently along the side of the road. A seemingly odd choice for a message…
Store owners make decisions about adjusting opening and closing times frequently, of course, and etiquette would suggest that it’s polite to inform store regulars of the new schedule for their convenience upon future […]
Missionary work
Posted on July 24, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 17 Comments
Some of you may have read the incredibly inspiring stories at Bookslinger’s Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon blog. Every time I see his name commenting on a post in the Bloggernacle, I get humbled a bit. I usually hand out only three or four Books of Mormon a year, and […]
Read More..>>Happy Pioneer Day!
Posted on July 24, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 17 Comments
Despite the fact that I grew up and still live in Utah, I don’t actually do anything for this day. Neither of my parents are from Utah, so they were not raised with any Pioneer Day traditions. Therefore, they passed no traditions for this day on to me. Occassionally I watch the […]
Read More..>>Sunday School Lesson 28, or How to Accidentally Set Yourself On Fire While Teaching the Bible
Posted on July 23, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 11 Comments
It was our old scoutmaster’s fault. I wasn’t there, but he told the story of Elijah and the priests of Baal (pronounced ba’al, not bale). Except, he told it at night. With props.
Read More..>>LDS filmmaker to help counter ‘bigotry’
Posted on July 19, 2006 - Filed Under Any | 8 Comments
The director of “The Other Side of Heaven” has started a campaign to help counter anti-Mormon bigotry. Mitch Davis has started a web site RunMittRun.org and is hoping to raise money and awareness to counter the large number of people who say they would not vote for a Mormon for president.
Today’s Deseret News says:
