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A “Ritchie Boy”

    ***   Last night, we watched a special piece from the CBS 60 Minutes program that was first broadcast on Sunday evening.  It was entitled The Ritchie Boys.  It focused on the former Camp Ritchie, Maryland, an elite military intelligence school during the Second World War, and on four very old survivors from […]

Linking the Past with the Present

    ***   Just three days into 2022 and you’ve already run out of good things to read?  That’s not our fault.  Have a look at the books that the Interpreter Foundation has published this far:   Books   And here are some articles from a past but still relatively recent number of Interpreter: […]

A very satisfying defeat

    ***   It was a heart-breaker.  The University of Utah lost in the last twelve seconds of the Rose Bowl game, which was just completed, after having led Ohio State almost all the way.  But they can be proud.  No embarrassment whatsoever.  Not even remotely.  They played very well.  And, had the game […]

Go Utes!

    ***   Here are a couple of nice retrospectives that I’ve enjoyed:   “Read the Church News staff’s favorite stories from 2021” “Meridian’s 15 Most-Read Articles in 2021”   Have a look at the links.  You might find something in them that you missed and that, it turns out, you really like.   […]

“If God Does Not Exist, Is Everything Permitted?”

    ***   A new essay appeared at noon today, Utah time, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  I regret to say that I wrote it.  I don’t regret my authorship of the essay because I disagree with anything that it contains, but because I don’t like the fact that […]

Starting Over Again, New Year or Not

    ***   Here’s a New Year’s article that I wrote for Meridian Magazine:   “A Lesson from Two Great Leaders on Beginning Again When It Feels Like You’ve Failed”   Here, perhaps relevant to my article above, are recent stories about a pair of Latter-day Saints that you might enjoy:   “BYU’s Mikayla […]

Keith Olbermann gets into his version of the holiday spirit with regard to Mitt Romney’s family

    ***   A few of you may remember that there was once an extremely unpleasant man who went by the name of Keith Olbermann.  He was, at various times, a sports commentator and then a rather negligible political commentator and then a sports commentator.  Well, it seems — at least according to Bethany […]

Once More, on Harry Reid

    ***   Because of a grave defect in prudence and common sense, I’m now going to return to the subject of the late Latter-day Saint Senator and Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV).  (See my prior post here.)  This will provide yet another opportunity for intemperate haters to comment.  However, although I’m a […]

Harry Reid RIP

      ***   I think I had only one significant encounter with him.  (It occurred at the event at the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Joran that is pictured above.)  I disagreed quite comprehensively with his more striking policy positions and, on more than one occasion, found some of his actions quite […]

“In the Beginning God Created the Heaven and the Earth”

    ***   Three new pieces were posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Come, Follow Me — Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps Lesson 2, January 3-January 9: Genesis 1-2; Moses 2-3; Abraham 4-5 — “In the Beginning God Created the Heaven and the Earth” This is yet another brief but […]