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…
– It’s a dirty job – but somebody has to do it. [ Courtesy of our sister site | Modern Atheist.org ]
What with the Mormon Church, prompting the Utah State Legislature, to pass laws “protecting religion” – in the wake of their proposed endorsement of laws protecting the LGBT community against discrimination. And news of other states trying to prevent the teaching of in-depth facts, concerning those more unsavory bits of US History – that mainly…
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. (John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908 – 2006) Following the disingenuous statements by LDS Church officials last week – ostensibly supporting anti discrimination measures for members of the LGBT community in housing and employment – the focus has been effectively diverted and short-stopped.…
The world is again witness to a horrifically barbaric execution. 26-year-old Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, doused in flammable liquid, awaits execution. The idolatrous transformation – of the relative into the absolute, and the all-too-human into the divine – makes it possible for man to indulge his ugliest passion, in the firm belief that he is…
… there are no words, can express your loss. Or the crime, committed against humanity, in your name. We bear your family’s sorrow.
Having seen the writing on the wall – and especially having come to accept the inevitable fact of the LGBT community attaining full citizenship under the law – The LDS Church officially launched “Plan B” today. And this, by paring up their call for laws protecting the LGBT community from overt discrimination, in housing,…
Following President Obama’s ambitiously upbeat State of the Union address, I was reminded, all too soon, of this Ambrose Bierce quote.
In a return to the basics – Basic Intimidation and Coercion – the LDS Church has dropped the hammer on a couple of known troublemakers recently. Dissidents – bent on the task of enlightening their fellow believers – and possible bring about what they had hoped could be, positive changes. Of course, once ecclesiastical…
The Salt Lake Daily Issue 