Woe unto you...for ye...have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
- Matthew 23:23
I still remember an essay about that particular flag being the "white guy loser" flag or the "friendship flag" (because the guy displaying it is reminding everyone that the slavers lost, big time).
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Book(s) I am currently reading:
- Brigham Young: American Moses (by Leonard Arrington)
Book(s) I have recently finished (since July 2007)
- Assault on Reason (by Al Gore) - On Beauty (by Zadie Smith) - People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture (by Terryl Givens, OUP 2007) - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (by J.K. Rowling) - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (by J.K. Rowling) - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (by J.K. Rowling) - American Jesus (by Stephen Prothero) - East of Eden (by John Steinbeck) - Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy: Its Origin, Practice, and Demise (by B. Carmon Hardy) - By the Hand of Mormon (by Terryl Givens, OUP 2001) - Utopia (by Sir Thomas More) - The Road (by Cormac McCarthy) - The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women (by Dorothy Allred Solomon, Palgrave Macmillan 2007) - The Emperor's Children (by Claire Messud) - The Yiddish Policeman's Union (by Michael Chabon) - In the Belly of the Beast (by Jack Henry Abbott) - Crime and Punishment (by Fyodor Dostoevsky) - The Trial (by Franz Kafka) - Wanting it All: The Challenge of Reforming the U.S. Health Care System (ed. Jane Sneddon Little) - Health Care Politics and Policy in America (by Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky - The American University in a Postsecular Age (eds. Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen) - Predictably Irrational (by Dan Ariely) - American Vertigo (by Bernard-Henri Levy) - The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality (by Walter Benn Michaels) - On the Road (by Jack Kerouac) - Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State(by Randolph B. Campbell) - Watchmen (by Alan Moore) - A Consecrated Life: The Authorized Biography of Hugh Nibley (by Boyd Jay Petersen) - Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (by David Livingstone, 2008) - Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (by Richard Bushman) - Paradise Lost (by John Milton) - Anxiety in Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost (by John Tanner) - The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (by Jeffrey Sachs) - Left in Dark Times: A Stand against the New Barbarism (by Bernard-Henri Levy) - Massacre at Mountain Meadows (by Turley et al.) - Hot, Flat & Crowded (by Thomas Friedman) - The Age of Turbulence (by Alan Greenspan) - The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons, & Growing Up Strange (by Mark Barrowcliffe) - The Age of American Unreason (by Susan Jacoby) - Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (by Rebecca Goldstein) - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (by Jared Diamond) - The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia (by Philip Jenkins) - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of FDR (by H.W. Burton) - The Invisible Constitution (by Laurence Tribe) - Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies (ed. David Paulsen, Donald W. Musser) - Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (by David Eagleman) - Mexico: Biography of Power (by Enrique Krauze) - A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom (by Jedediah Purdy) - The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (by Louis Menand) - The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (by Robert Wright) - The Future of Liberalism (by Alan Wolfe) - Our Undemocratic Constitution (by Sanford Levinson) - Team of Rivals (by Doris Kearns Goodwin) - How God Changes Your Brain (by Andrew Newberg, MD, and Mark Robert Waldman) - Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Mormon Handcart Tragedy (by David Roberts) - The Dark Side (by Jane Mayer) - The Mormon Experience: The Story of the Latter Day Saints (by Leonard Arrington and Davis Bitton) - Mormon Polygamy: A History (by Richard Van Wagoner) - Dangerous Games: The Uses & Abuses of History (by Margaret MacMillan)
2 comments:
I still remember an essay about that particular flag being the "white guy loser" flag or the "friendship flag" (because the guy displaying it is reminding everyone that the slavers lost, big time).
In reference to state's rights alone, I would have to agree. The Federal government is completely out of hand.
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