stallioncornell

 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

Man,can you believe Rick Santorum said this?This was posted on Facebook by the group Americans Against The Tea Party. It has been "liked" by 2,348 people, generated 2,418 comments, and been shared 2,130 times. The fact that Rick Santorum never actually said this doesn't seem to matter. Are we that eager to believe the ... Read more

TheTrayvon Martin case is really beginning to infuriate me.I didn't really plan on writing anything about it, because, really, what more is there to be said? But as a single, isolated tragedy becomes the genesis for a larger, warped racial narrative, I get more and more irate. And then I stumbled on this little gem, ... Read more

AsI listen to the breathless reports pouring out of the Supreme Court about the oral arguments for and against Obamacare, I recall my own visit to the Supreme Court in October of 2009. Unlike the U.S. Senate, where senators give fiery speeches to an empty chamber, all nine Supreme Court Justices actually show up, complete ... Read more

I first started reading The Hunger Games in the Draper LDS Temple. Mrs. Cornell and I had volunteered to help shepherd visitors through the sacred edifice before its dedication, after which it would no longer be open to the public. Our job was to sit in an anteroom and wait around in case anyone needed ... Read more

Springis here! Spring is here! Life is skittles and life is beer! I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring! I do! Don't you? 'Course you do.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjYNewt Gingrich also noticed spring is here this past weekend, when, instead of campaigning in Illinois, where he would ultimately come in fourth behind Ron Paul, ... Read more

Truly stunning news out of South Carolina today, as we learn that a middle school teacher has been suspended for reading Ender's Game to her students. The sci-fi classic is apparently "pornographic," and the teacher may end up losing their job over this.Had I known the way to get rid of a lousy teacher was ... Read more

"Is Elvis a Mormon?" That was the screaming headline on Maureen Dowd's column in Sunday's New York Times. Apparently, MoDo is the first to discover a secret, controversial practice of Mitt Romney's church. It seems these Mormons perform proxy baptisms on behalf of dead people! Isn't that bonkers?Yes. So bonkers that it has been a ... Read more

Yesterday,out of the blue, a reader commented on a post made just before the 2008 election about the following video. You don't have to watch the video - indeed, I recommend you don't. Just know that it's a bunch of washed-up has-been celebrities praying to Barack Obama to save America and lower gas prices.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&hl=en&fs=1Well, three ... Read more