Officially on holiday

December 22, 2008 | 8 Comments

I have a boatload of work to do on the damned day job (filthy lucre!!!) and I have 23 people coming for Christmas Eve (which wouldn’t actually mean much unless you saw my house) and Tax Deduction #1 is home on Christmas break (yay) and I want to spend some time reading and writing (and [...]

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22

Mormons and vampires

November 22, 2008 | 18 Comments

Again.
So I’m looking through my stats and come upon the search phrase, “is there a correlation between mormons and vampires.”
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Just like every other organized religion on the planet. And those who submit and bare their necks to the teeth do so willingly. Or not. Maybe. [...]

Oct

7

Kansas City: LDS temple update

October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

Shoal Creek Valley, in Clay County.
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong (about Olathe) in my life. Happy dance!

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Kansas City: LDS temple coming soon

October 4, 2008 | 4 Comments

So today at General Conference the announcement was made that the greater Kansas City metro area would have a temple of its own soon.
For my non-LDS readers, what this means basically is that the second coming of Christ is right around the corner. (Kidding. Well. Kind of.) Thing is, I’d be a lot [...]

Oct

3

Abolish marriage

October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

“Marriage” is an ancient artificial construct that, in modern US society with no property rights attached to the female (i.e., dowry), has no real place.
As I said on chosha’s blog A Little East of Reality, what’s going on with California’s Prop 8 and the LDS church’s involvement with that, is one of defining the term. [...]

Aug

13

Publishing potpourri for 100, Alex

August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Jasmine or honeysuckle, if you’re offering. Lavender and gardenia make my nose itch.
THE JEWEL OF MEDINA by Sherry Jones
A resident of the Ivory Tower, who apparently called dibs on A’isha (child bride of Muhammed) as her personal and exclusive domain of study and forgot to send the memo, raised a ruckus about a book [...]