“A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust. A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a ripoff, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle or … Read more
The Utah LDS vote was of interest to the media in the 2016 Presidential election because of the wide gap between Donald Trump’s (lack of) character and LDS values. Trump’s early attacks on immigrants led the Church, on December 8, 2015, to release a statement on religious freedom that contained two quotes from Joseph Smith. … Read more
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. (Romans 16:17-18) To me, … Read more
And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; And whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning. (D&C 93:24-25) The New York Times has an article out about how Russia uses … Read more
Nicholas Kristof has a column in today’s New York Times entitled “Donald Trump is Making America Meaner.” He recounts a story from last spring when, in the middle of a high school physics class in a small Oregon town, a group of white students began chanting at their Latino classmates: “Build a wall! Build a … Read more
This is hard to write. I am so angry at the NRA, the gun-selling merchants of death, and the Republicans in Congress, I don’t know what to say. Rather than comment, I think I will just list some facts. On Sunday June 12, 2016 a man entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and started … Read more
The title quote above is Matthew 25:42. The following is from the book Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis by Stuart A. Kallen. p. 33. By 2014 … Americans were consuming a total of 10 billion gallons (38 billion liters) of bottled water each year, at a cost of $11.8 billion. Worldwide, people spent over … Read more