Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 926

“Trump is unfit to command the military”

    Those tempted by Caesarotrumpism should consider this extremely important article, written by two retired military officers who happen also to be attorneys and experts on military law:   http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion...   I’m very grateful to Michael Schroth, himself a lawyer (based in Ohio), for bringing this item to my attention.  I hope it gains a [Read More...]

“Science and Mormonism”

    It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published a new article:   Science and Mormonism   Surprised?   Posted from Monterey, California    

The Cad Who Would Be King

    “Nine Tales of Trump at His Trumpiest”   Perhaps one of the slogans of those who oppose Caesarotrumpism should be “Remember Vera Coking!”  There may still be some hope, though it’s waning rapidly, of recalling a few Trumpists to dim recollections of human decency.   Posted from San Jose, California    

Three definitions and a quotation from Ambrose Bierce

    Egotist, n.  A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.   Lottery, n.  A tax on people who are bad at math.   Bore, n.  A person who talks when you wish him to listen.   In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so [Read More...]

The Crude Vulgarian in 2016!

    I only caught a few minutes of the Republican debate tonight.  But it was enough time for me to see Donald Trump make a coarse comment that, before the past several months — that is, before The Donald became an active candidate for the presidency of the United States — would have been [Read More...]

Apparently, Utah really IS different from the rest of America

    http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/3...    

Mr. Donald Trump on women

    The other day, a Caesarotrumpist writing on my Facebook page said that he wanted to see actual primary-source evidence that The Donald is a bad man.   Well, here’s some:   http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczyns...   Now, maybe you think that such remarks about women, and such behavior toward women, are perfectly okay.   Or, more likely, [Read More...]

“The Impenetrable Mystery of Being You”

    The latest installment of my weekly Deseret News column is up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Already, one of the usual atheistic commentators there has accused me of religiously-motivated obscurantism because I describe consciousness and subjectivity as a “mystery” and as perhaps even an “irreducible” one.   But I’m scarcely alone in this view.  In [Read More...]

Sigh. No one knows the depths of my suffering.

    It’s disheartening to me, after all of the effort and ego — and ego, I’m told, is what I’m really all about — that I’ve invested in the Interpreter Foundation, that the thoughts on the 2016 presidential campaign of one single contributor to Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture are getting a lot more [Read More...]

“Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages”

    In August 2012, Don Bradley delivered this interesting presentation to the annual FairMormon conference:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...