Stallion Cornell

SoI've launched a new podcast over at KSL.com. It's called "Dinner Table Politics."Here's the official description:The Bennett family has been at the heart of Utah politics for over half a century. So what happens when they talk about the issues of the day around the dinner table? Join Jim, the dad, and Abby, the daughter, ... Read more

Irecently had a conversation with someone who had missed an LDS Woman's Conference back in 1995, but she ended up at a reception later that evening with Marjorie Hinckley, wife of then-LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley."Did I miss anything at conference today?" she asked."Oh, no - same old, same old," Sister Hinckley replied.Yet that ... Read more

Enoughtime has passed that I've allowed my "Last Jedi" experience to simmer and given me some added perspective on the whole thing.Spoilers ahead, obviously.I've mentioned My Esteemed Colleague many times on this site, and given that he's probably the biggest Star Wars geek I know, I texted him not long after I had seen ... Read more

Thispost is inspired by a Facebook flame war - one in which I did not participate, so the object of this discussion won't know I'm talking about him. The subject of the war is unimportant. What matters is that it concluded when a particularly sanctimonious dude tried to salvage his decimated argument by quoting Robert ... Read more

Firstoff, yes, there will be oodles of spoilers. Do not read this until after you see the film, or if you don't care if you see the film. Or if you don't mind spoilers, which I don't, under most circumstances. With this movie, for the first time in a very long time, I actually went ... Read more

See these?These are old school Mego-brand toys that pre-date "action figures" by quite a few years. Young boys couldn't hide behind euphemisms to pretend they weren't playing with dolls. I had all of these, as well as a few more. I played with them until their costumes were frayed and various body parts were lost ... Read more

Thesurviving children of Abraham Lincoln are Robert and Thomas, the first of which is about twenty-three years old, a graduate of Harvard College, and is a young man of modest and agreeable manners, quiet, and with a very good share of his father’s sagacity and kindness.

So wrote Noah Brooks, a White House reporter during ... Read more

So this blog has gotten no love in over five months, and it has actually been offline for the past two weeks. (Please note that Yahoo Small Business web hosting sucks. I wasted many hours on the phone with those guys repeatedly trying to verify who I was before repeatedly telling me they couldn't help ... Read more

I’mhalfway through the run of Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of “The Will Rogers Follies.” I play Wiley Post, the aviator who was piloting the plane that went down  in Alaska in 1935, claiming the lives of both Rogers and Post as a result. I spend the entire show sitting in the audience, yelling “Let’s go ... Read more

I'mnow writing a lot more than I ever have, but not much of it is posted here. I'm sorry this blog is being neglected, but, since nobody pays me to write it, I've been forced to shift my focus to wordsmithing in ways that produce income.That said, there's a bunch of stuff I've written that ... Read more