Stallion Cornell

TheChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds its semi-annual General Conference this weekend, which I affectionately refer to as "church on TV." Instead of dressing up in my Sunday finest, I will greet Sunday morning by sitting in my pajamas, eating bacon, and lying on the couch as church leaders offer televised counsel that ... Read more

A visit to the White House can be an arduous process. It requires months of advance preparation, because names have to submitted to the Secret Service in order to run background checks. Consequently, those who travel to the nation’s capitol often plan their itinerary around their appointment for a tour of the Executive Mansion. If ... Read more

MY DOG, HE IS FATa poem by Stallion Cornell------My dog, he is fatMy dog, he is fatMy dog, he is fatFat is my dog. He is. (Fat, I mean.)------(c) 2013, Stallion Cornell. May not be reproduced or replicated without express written or implied oral consent. May not be folded, spindled or mutilated.------Recently, ... Read more

Thetitle of this post may be somewhat misleading. I am not a Catholic, nor do I have any intention of becoming a Catholic. But I've had the opportunity to contribute to editorials for the Deseret News about the retired pope and the newly elected one, and my admiration and respect for both men and the ... Read more

MyEsteemed Colleague and I have had many lengthy and contentious political exchanges of late, most of them focused around his newfound appreciation for Joseph Stalin and the assignment of responsibility for the instigation of the Korean War. I shan't recount all the details here, but, instead, will focus on one subset of the discussion that ... Read more

Don'tworry - the incendiary headline is strictly for Google's benefit.My most popular posts, in which I supposedly reveal the innermost secrets of the Order of the Arrow (OA), AKA the pseudo-Taliban wing of the Boy Scouts of America, continue to attract an unreasonable amount of attention from angry Boy Scouts who think I have violated ... Read more

Icontinue to receive messagesfrom my well-intentioned lefty friends about what we besotted Republicans could or should do to improve our electoral fortunes the next time out. The latest, which three people have sent me, is a link to a New York Times article that claims the GOP is doomed due to its technological obsolescence. I'd ... Read more

Surprise!There isn't one."What the church requires is only belief that Adam was the first man of what we would call the human race," said LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley in a comment cited in the book Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America. He then went on to say that "scientists ... Read more

Itgoes without saying that I am no fan of the Boy Scouts of America. Just about every trauma in my youth had some sort of scouting connection. And, on principle, I think the decision to even consider homosexuality as having any sort of bearing on membership in that benighted organization to be backward and silly.But ... Read more

Inno particular order:1) Nick Smith sent me a note claiming he was a 17-year-old kid and would I please stop picking on him. I suspect he's not a real guy - a prank engineered by someone who fully realized how stupid he looked. Alas, my attempt to replace Languatron as my online arch-enemy was not ... Read more