Certainly, the Constitution intended our nation to be democratic within reasonable limits. Some insight as to the founding fathers’ perception of those “reasonable limits” can be seen from the public discourse documented as the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers, and subsequently, by the fact that Women’s suffrage was not granted until 1820 by the Nineteenth Amendment, […]
Continue readingJeremy Runnells, author of the CES Letter to which I have written a too-snarky reply hosted on this site, has a section on his website titled “Debunkings,” and I have recently been added to the rogue’s gallery of apologists who have earned a direct Runnells rebuttal. It appears he’s going to update the Jim Bennett […]
Continue readingI’m writing this today after Trump’s latest atrocity, in which he tweeted a theory that a 75-year-old man, beaten by police during a peaceful demonstration and in critical condition as of this writing, was part of a “setup” designed to make the police look bad. Just when you think Trump can’t be any worse, he’s […]
Continue readingCanonizer.com is a social communication tool designed to find and build consensus on controversial issues. The goal is to determine, concisely and quantitatively, what everyone believes on any given subject. We’ve prepared a short video that explains Canonizer that you can watch here: https://vimeo.com/307590745 If you want the much longer, academic version, you can read […]
Continue readingThis is a continued serialization of my latest revision of my CES Letter reply, which you can read in its entirety here. As always, Jeremy’s words are in green the color of life, and mine are in black, the color of darkness. [Jeremy expresses concern that the first recounting of the First Vision wasn’t written down until] […]
Continue readingThis is a continued serialization of my latest revision of my CES Letter reply, which you can read in its entirety here. The main purpose of serializing the reply has been to try to spur participation in Canonizer’s Latter-day Saint Survey Project, which you can see in the links at the bottom of this post. So […]
Continue readingI’ve been reminded that I’ve been slacking off in updating my serialized reply to the CES Letter. I apologize. I’m putting together several new projects for Canonizer designed to get people to use the Canonizer site, so I’ve neglected the serialization of my revised reply, which you can read in its entirety here. The main […]
Continue readingNot far from my house, there’s a large tract of land that’s been set aside for extending Highland Boulevard deeper into Sandy. It’s been vacant for the 15+ years since we moved into our home, and I hope the road is never completed, because that area is where I walk my dog, and I get […]
Continue readingIt seems I am not yet worthy of an official debunking over at the CES Letter site, but in the absence of Jeremy’s promised dismantling of my reply, a helpful Redditor has issued a ” A Pointed Response to Jim Bennett’s “A Faithful Reply to the CES Letter from a Former CES Employee.” Since I […]
Continue readingDuring my Reddit AMA which I discussed in yesterday’s post, I received a number of private messages from people frustrated that their angrier, more hostile questions were not allowed, and several insisted that I conduct a similar AMA in a different subreddit, one where I wouldn’t be treated with such kid gloves. This, of course, […]
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