Hilarious Interview of Mike Gravel by a Left-wing Radio

I guess these Lefty Talk-show hosts didn't do their homework or didn't know what they were getting into.
It's just funny to hear.

The man does have integrity. That's for sure.

News Media 360 Coverage

Sarah Palin, Media Hypocracy and the One-edged Sword

First CNN takes pot shots at abstinance education with vitriolic ferver.


The one of our favorite philosophers Bill Bennett (who knows something of hypocritical media attacks posing as journalism) weighs in on the issue and has a heated exchange attacking his employer CNN for using those extreme far-left talking points and trying to pass them off as journalism.



Then another good Neoconservative, Bill Krystol, appropriately lays the smack-down on Mort Kondrake (even calling such a suggestion disgusting) for suggesting that Sarah Palin's daughter getting pregnant is 'proof' that abstinance only education is ineffective.



I'm glad that Barak Obama was respectful enough to not target the kids of Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates.

How One Lost Faith like One may Lose an Old Pair of Shoes

Richard Dutcher Leaves Mormon Cinema and Mormonism behind.

It is almost inevitable. Except for the Buddist (with it's vegetarian meals and relaxing Yoga routines), most faiths wither from lack of light in the darkened screening rooms of Hollywoodland.

Now that Dutcher has cast off the ball-and-chain of church morality he can finally make more respectable, uplifting movies like 'The Departed.' His latest releases 'Falling' and "Evil Angel' are steps in the right direction. One advantage Richard may have on his peers is that one really can't understand evil without understanding good. Unfortunately, our media is all too obsessed with portrayal of evil without understanding it or the other side of the coin.

The Divine Institution of Marriage

New church reaffirmation of an old policy.

Louise's experience at the Ice Rink

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Flooding on the Mississippi

If you look really close you will see missionary name tags on many of the 'yellow t-shirt' people.

Thoughts for a monday.

In Response to another person's post about serving missions.

Perhaps I just one of those smiley-eyed fools who blindly forged ahead in total self-deception and delusion. I was humiliated time and again and perhaps I just pretended that it didn’t matter. The mission life was tough; sometimes excruciating, and I made some pretty big mistakes. Perhaps it was my stubborn nature, but I charged forward in vigorous rebellion against it all. I ignored the consequences of mission life on my body, mind and soul. I spent myself there on the soil in Central America, and if I was going to spend myself in that land of poverty and nameless towns frozen in the 1800s, then I would spend dearly.

I left a part of myself in that land. I don’t know if I will ever regain that part that was so brutally ripped from my soul. I returned to a family that was bankrupt, to parents who were divorced, and to a mother who was struggling through church and government welfare to feed, clothe and shelter my four younger siblings. Some kind members of the ward chipped in to help buy me some clothes that weren’t tattered from having been hung on rusty barbed wire. I felt I had lost everything.

The poignancy of those moments burned deep into my heart. I faltered, and just when I was about to fail; when I was about to forsake myself to bleak nothingness; I saw.

There was no other way, and there is no such thing as cheap grace.

Hurrah for Office-space

Today, I got introduced to my new office. It's actually more like a broomcloset that houses two post-docs and a graduate student (me), but it already feels like home. I have to go to university surplus supplies to scrounge up an old used desk and a chair with (hopefully) not too many ambiguous brown stains, but I have a bookcase and cabinets. My mentor also gave me the textbook I will use (Kandell's principles of Neuro Science) for the minimal coursework that I need to get done.

Church responds to California Supreme Court Decision.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recognizes that same-sex marriage can be an emotional and divisive issue. However, the Church teaches that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is the basic unit of society. Yesterday’s California Supreme Court decision is unfortunate.