Stallion Cornell

Fora brief, shining moment circa 1993, the name "Stallion Cornell" was in popular parlance at the University of Southern California School of Theatre, which severely irked a real-life theatre school professor with the surname Cornell, who thought I had chosen the name to make fun of him.I hadn't, but I often wish I had.During my ... Read more

Threestories with a single moral. Let us begin.Story One of Three:I lived in Los Angeles during the 1984 Summer Olympics. Those were heady, halcyon days, mainly because of all the free food we were getting at McDonalds.Allow me to explain.McDonalds was running an Olympic-themed promotion offering free food based on how many ... Read more

Anderson Cooper's much-ballyhooed announcement today reminded me of this blog post that has been making the rounds in the past few weeks. Titled "Club Unicorn," it is the story of a gay Mormon man who has been happily married to a woman for ten years, having produced three lovely daughters by means of a "healthy ... Read more

I'mat Youth Conference in Flaming Gorge, Utah, with my daughter, and all I have is my iPhone. So I have to tell you what this Obamacare Supreme Court decision means by typing entirely with my thumbs.I can do this.There's plenty of noise out there, but very few real insights. So here are the takeaways that ... Read more

Ibegan to think about something after watching this documentary about my church:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrUWd_XLQI&feature=player_embeddedThis was the subject of a previous blog post, where I took issue with the host's hostile approach to my faith. But watching Mr. Sweeney's previous video about Scientology gave me a little bit of perspective. In that instance, Mr. Sweeney was repeatedly ... Read more

Isthere anyone else who remembers Lynn Bryson? I sure hope not.When I was a missionary in Scotland, one of my companions had a copy of a tape titled "Rock and Roll and the Occult," wherein Mr. Bryson, a supposed "music industry insider," exposed the fact that the record industry was run by demons who were ... Read more

Ikeep having variations of the same dream, over and over again. This has never happened to me before - all my other dreams have been stand-alone episodes with neither sequel nor prequel. Yet this one keeps coming back to me.Freudians, help me out here.I'm always in school. Sometimes I'm young and it's high school or ... Read more

There'sa reason, other than sloth, that this blog has been neglected. See, I had already mentally written my next post - it was going to tell you all about this huge opportunity that fell into my lap out of the clear blue sky, an opportunity that would have given me a far broader audience and ... Read more

SoDavid Axelrod once again insists that Mitt Romney's Mormonism is definitely off limits. Whew! That means we won't have to suffer through tedious Washington Post articles that try to make a 150-year-old massacre a campaign issue, or listen to Obama's biggest SuperPAC donor's claim that Mitt spent two years "trying to brow-beat Frenchmen ... Read more

Theincumbent was facing serious economic challenges, but everyone assumed he’d pull it out in the general election. He was facing what the Conventional Wisdom determined was a weak candidate, a man the intelligentsia deemed too outside the mainstream to win the White House. The president led comfortably in all the polls leading up to the ... Read more