Month: April 2012

I'mgoing to put this out there, even though someone might steal it. It just so happens that I have a foolproof plan to make over $100 billion per year - tax free!It starts by building an island in international waters.Building an island shouldn't be too hard. All I need is some heavy industrial waste that ... Read more

Watch.Then we shall discuss.http://youtu.be/lhXGkeMdOJsIt's the standard question that crops up in every presidential election cycle: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Personal disclosure: I'm not. I'm making less than half the money I made in 2008.But is that really the president's fault?Back in the 1990s, I was often disgusted with Clintonites ... Read more

Abouttwenty years ago, I completed the first draft of my first play. Titled The Butcher's Apprentice, it was based on the same premise as the box office flop Anonymous - i.e. Shakespeare was really Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The whole thing was narrated by William Shaxper of Stratford, who I wrote ... Read more

SoI was a delegate to the Utah Republican State Convention on Saturday. It was a surreal experience, and, ultimately, a positive one.Two years ago, I found myself on the outside looking in as the Tea Party swept into power and replaced a respected U.S. Senator with Mike Lee, a lunatic who wants to repeal the ... Read more

Ibegin with an experience that doesn't paint me in the best light, religiously speaking.The year was 1986. All of my Mormon friends had fled Los Angeles for Provo, Utah and Brigham Young University, and I, since I considered myself too "sophisticated" - i.e. arrogant - to subject myself to a Mormon majority experience, remained in ... Read more

SoDaniel has diagnosed me with a "Persecution Complex" for my (over?)sensitivity to attacks on my faith by those on the left. In honor of my new condition, I thought I'd share some of my paranoid reasons for irrationally identifying hostility toward my faith from the tolerant, open-minded folk who are more enlightened than a troglodyte ... Read more

Itseems some have mistakenly interpreted yesterday's post as a defense of Sarah Palin. It was not a defense of Sarah Palin. While I, like many, was initially impressed with Ms. Palin's speech to the Republican National Convention in 2008, it quickly became apparent that she was, in the words of Peggy Noonan, a nincompoop. My ... Read more

SoSantorum is out. He was inevitable before, but Mitt is now the de facto nominee. So what should he do next?He should host Saturday Night Live.That's not a joke.On Facebook, I've been having a long-running discussion with my friend Daniel about the amount and the intensity of the Mormon-themed attacks against Mitt that are ... Read more

 Soit's Thursday. I haven't written a post since Monday. I'm going to be traveling tomorrow. So this is my one shot to write something profound to take you into the weekend - and beyond.The problem is that all the pressing issues of the day are really tiresome. Is there anything left to say about the ... Read more

Kari Norgaard, the Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon who looks unsettlingly like Gary Busey in drag, has diagnosed me as diseased because of my unwillingness to embrace the increasingly convoluted and contradictory assumptions inherent in the latest faddish thinking re: anthropogenic global warming.In other words, global warming skeptics aren't just wrong; ... Read more