Being more of an extended limerick, really … It reads, A SATIRICAL ODE TO ROBERT LAVOY FINICUM ROBERT LAVOY FINICUM – got a number of folks to grin again. Dressed like Your Highness – in Cabaelas finest He put his tarped self on display. And spouting crude libertariums – his thoughts like a lighted aquarium…
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Following President Obama’s ambitiously upbeat State of the Union address, I was reminded, all too soon, of this Ambrose Bierce quote.
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Utah, and the Mormon Church, have experience a virtual ground swell of affinity fraud, in the last few years. More than usual, even. As it is, Happy Valley – that is to say, Utah County, the home of Brigham Young University – alone, is arguably the MLM (multilevel marketing) capitol of the world. Especially…
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. In fact, December 7 falls on the same day of the week this year – Sunday – as the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor did, in 1941. But many folks living today, might understandably wonder at the United States Victory over Japan, that hinged on a pair of equally infamous…
This post began as a response to comments left by WordPress blogger goaloflifeadmin, concerning my previous article, Deconstructing the hard edge of religion. It was getting a bit long – and I felt it touched on some things that deserve a closer look. goaloflifeadmin, I don’t know why you would automatically assume that atheists…
Apparently (having never done it myself) folks who go ‘crabbing’ on various Atlantic beaches, in the moonlight, never have to worry about using lids, to keep track of the crabs being tossed into their buckets. And it’s because crabs in a bucket evince a peculiar dog in the manger attitude towards any of their…
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You probably have heard of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. The idea is that an infinite number of monkeys typing randomly at keys on a typewriter will eventually type a given text, such as all of Shakespeare’s works. What about infinite SurveyMonkeys? Unfortunately, there aren’t an infinite number of…
From the Salt Lake Tribune headlines: Leaders say Mormons cannot condone same-sex marriage. While I realize that Elder Dallin H. Oaks was speaking to the ‘faithful,’ while issuing the official talking points, and marching orders, the tone – especially as heard by those outside ‘the faith’ – was truly dreadful. Can’t condone? What kind…
The Salt Lake Daily Issue 