Stallion Cornell

Soa couple with two young children is about to go out for the evening, and they call a babysitter service. Since they called with short notice, they only have two potential sitters to choose from. The service sends over a short description of each that outlines their plusses and minuses."So who have we got?" Dad asks."Hmmm," Mom says. ... Read more

Whilegoing through my father's papers, my mother stumbled on this shocking exposé from a 1957 edition of the Daily Utah Chronicle, the University of Utah's student newspaper. I now have to reevaluate my whole life and come to terms with my father's scandalous past.Text of the article:BENNETT HELD; THEFT EXPOSEDASUU Pres. Bob ... Read more

"Pleasetell me what you find odious about Hillary Clinton," a cousin of mine asked on FB last week. "She might be dull, but odious? Dishonest? Corrupt? I'm really not seeing it. She is smart, educated, qualified, capable, and even tempered. She has spun things her way, because that's how one gets into office -- it's ... Read more

Thereis no more tired political cliche than a tortured Titanic metaphor, but what can I say? I really like rearranging deck chairs.As we join our tortured metaphor, already in progress, the Titanic ship of state is steaming straight toward the iceberg of total, Greece-style fiscal insolvency, frozen in place by an aging nation demanding  ... Read more

Inlight of my Order-of-the-Arrow-themed Deseret News column published today, I decided to write a definitive summary of this blog's illustrious history as the unwitting leader of the anti-Order of the Arrow movement. Rather than make it a regular post, I made it a page, which means as new posts move this one down the ... Read more

Andthus it is that this post shall conclude the serialized reproduction of my lengthy reply to “Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony” by Jeremy Runnells.I doubt this is the last I'll have to say on the subject, but this is the last selection from my original reply, which I've been ... Read more

We'recoming to the end of this series of posts, which are a serialized reproduction of my lengthy reply to "Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony" to Jeremy Runnells. Jeremy Runnells insists that nobody has answered his questions, and, when people bring up my answers to his questions, he insists that I ... Read more

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnells “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:(Don't worry - we're almost done!)4.Anti-Intellectualism:“Some things that are true are not very useful”:

Boyd K. Packer gave an eye-opening talk to Church Education System Instructors and faculty at a CES Symposium on the Doctrine & Covenants

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HappyFather's Day.To help me get through my first Father's Day in a post-Bob Bennett world, I've transcribed the 45-minute fireside my father delivered in the Arlington, Virginia LDS Chapel three weeks before his passing and less than 24 hours before the stroke that took his life. (In Mormonspeak, a fireside is a sermon delivered in the evening outside of regular ... Read more

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnells “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:2.Church Finances:Zero transparency to members of the Church. Why is the one and only true Church keeping its books in the dark? Why would God’s one true Church choose to “keep them in darkness” over ... Read more