tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71995172012-02-16T04:30:33.097-05:00"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." -Friedrich NietzscheChrisnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-78609756691112691242008-04-17T22:58:00.007-04:002008-04-17T23:04:59.662-04:00

I'm done with finals (forever), so I can start wasting time again on blog sites! I don't know if anyone still reads this blog, but if anyone's interested, here's an interesting point on gas prices, currency exchange, and politics made by a mutual friend of Chris and me:Brian Bowen Was Here: The Price of GasSeemed like the kind of thing people on here might like. He welcomes comments.p.s. - What

Marknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-100860704891376052008-04-01T14:00:00.003-04:002008-12-10T23:34:39.965-05:00

If you try to add a new appointment to your Google calendar, you type text in the box, then you click, "I'm feeling lucky", you get an interesting appointment set up for yourself...

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-61155761756335813532008-01-19T12:13:00.000-05:002008-01-19T12:14:16.481-05:00

this is my new favorite commercial.

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-66518036257551968142008-01-06T22:53:00.001-05:002008-09-15T10:24:22.590-04:00

Chris Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419512331325872737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-68969964731152395072007-12-17T10:23:00.003-05:002007-12-17T10:23:53.807-05:00

If anyone is still reading, Who do you think should get the money?http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7742685?source=rss

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-53655622743607807682007-10-07T08:50:00.000-04:002007-10-07T09:47:09.427-04:00

Hey folks,I don't know whether any of you remember me posting around LYMA in the past... I'm a good friend of J.D. Payne, who introduced me to the Church in 2002-2003. I'm now back after serving in the Belgium Brussels / Netherlands Mission.Now that I've been home for three months, I miss the elevated spiritual atmosphere of missionary life. I've been meaning to get into some good Mormon

Chris Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419512331325872737noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-26289152217034523762007-07-26T19:22:00.000-04:002007-07-26T19:43:15.205-04:00

Obviously, my summer internship is far and away less exciting than all of your summer associate-ships. And to think of the exponentially less wages I am earning. Sniffle.Well, beware LYMA lawyers: money corrupts. Look no further than any news outlet in America. Every nook, cranny, crevice, and corner of American sports seems to be hiding something awful, something corrupt, something greedy. The

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-82216566069567185152007-07-23T15:30:00.000-04:002007-07-23T17:53:24.537-04:00

What do alligators, free-roaming horses, jungle cats, and an ancient Greek citizen have in common? Each represents a mascot for the winning college football team in last year's Bowl Championship Series. In the intervening 6 months since Florida "upset" undefeated Ohio State by 4 touchdowns, USC beat a disenfranchised Michigan team, Notre Dame surprised nobody by getting thumped by LSU, Louisville

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-27722145241564577172007-07-17T19:53:00.000-04:002007-07-17T20:07:28.321-04:00

There is a post at The Gray Sheep about circumcision that got me to thinking about my role as a soon-to-be parent. The author of that post shares a similar sentiment with me: what kinds of decisions am I morally supported in making for my children before they are able to make decisions on their own? Beyond decisions related to their survival.On the one hand, here is an empty canvas for my wife

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-67588128807627213242007-07-13T09:17:00.000-04:002007-07-13T10:27:08.319-04:00

I know I am kind of monopolizing the blog, but this is just too bizarre.

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-85756482605926885182007-07-12T13:50:00.000-04:002007-07-12T15:36:34.245-04:00

An Oregon court ruled today that the church has to turn over its financial information (which it has long kept secret) to the attorneys for a man who is suing, claiming that his home teacher molested him. There is still some legal battling before the records actually come out. Basically the Plaintiff wants to be able to say to the jury, "Hey, these guys are really rich so you should give me a

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-54362034557346359592007-06-12T20:37:00.000-04:002007-06-12T20:53:47.994-04:00

Don't get me wrong, I really like Costco. Few things are nicer than a berry smoothie and buying copius amounts of delicious food I never knew that I needed, but there are some things that must go. First, the parking lot. you do not need to sit and wait for a parking space when the person leaving is still a hundred yards away from their car and there is a line of six other cars behind you that

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-47062943833491388332007-05-29T09:48:00.000-04:002007-05-29T09:53:20.913-04:00

Can stuff like this really exist in America? I am afraid.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1845385.ece

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-33898411080282400182007-04-26T13:27:00.001-04:002007-04-26T19:28:18.195-04:00

Elliot Isaac PattonOriginally uploaded by cypryt. From all of us here at LYMA to the parents who started this little "blog" experiment, we say congratulations on a healthy delivery.Welcome to the world, Elliot. We look forward to inculcating our Nietzschean blog-osophies on you when you come of age. (We also expect you to set us straight with your Kemsley-Patton wisdom).Congratulations!

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-84259164255552019312007-04-24T16:11:00.000-04:002007-04-24T16:12:21.156-04:00

Best commercials ever.http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnShow?showID=SRDA

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-51524878189791803872007-04-12T11:30:00.000-04:002008-12-10T23:34:40.420-05:00

Kurt Vonnegut died today and I am sad. I was 14 when I read "Slaughterhouse Five"; 17 when I read "Cat's Cradle" and "Breakfast of Champions." And for almost the entirety of my teenage years, I proclaimed Kurt Vonnegut as my absolute favorite author. Several weeks ago I was browsing at Barnes & Noble and I picked up one of his books. I realized that, as a teenager, I had know idea what Vonnegut

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-683626369562988492007-04-11T07:19:00.000-04:002007-04-11T07:20:20.199-04:00

Here is the trailer for the upcoming PBS series about Mormons:http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/2514.html?&c=3wm

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-9003268983971300322007-03-28T18:35:00.000-04:002007-03-29T09:53:10.105-04:00

I really am starting to feel like I'm the only one shocked and amazed by what is happening in Iran.They took what from who? They've kept them for how long? Why isn't any one else outraged?All we get is one lousy CNN story a day?Where is the "IRAN PRISONER CRISES DAY 4" headline? Well, let me tell you. No one wants to put up the illusion that there may be in issue out there, somewhere, that we

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-66181112774156069232007-03-25T12:41:00.000-04:002007-03-25T12:46:22.626-04:00

In the interest of trying to revive Chris' blog, I am now forced to post e-mail forwards -* * * *Dear Tech Support:Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0I soon noticedthat the new program began unexpected child processing that took up alot of space and valuable resources.In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and nowmonitors all other system

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A leading news item on CNN says, "Mormons miffed over coffee-swilling angel image" - some coffee shop in Taylorsville, UT is selling shirts where coffee is being poured into the Angel Moroni's trumpet.What's interesting is that the Church's argument against the t-shirts is that the Angel Moroni is a REGISTERED TRADEMARK. Who knew?"Church spokesman Scott Trotter confirmed to the Deseret Morning

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According to the Trib: The Utah Court of Appeals today heard a father's lawsuit claiming the LDS Church ordained his two sons without permission. Michael Gulbraa says all he wanted after his two sons were ordained by the LDS Church without his permission was an official, written apology. When officials of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints declined to compel a general authority

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This Japanese dude reminds me of Michael Scott from "The Office."This from CNN on Japanese Foreign Minister (expected to be next Prime Minister) Taro Aso:Blond, blue-eyed Westerners probably can't be as successful at Middle Eastdiplomacy as Japanese with their "yellow faces"."Luckily, we Japanese have yellow faces."He offended South Korea with remarks in 2003 that were interpreted in Seoulas

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CHRISPY, IN YOUR OLD AGE,May your beard follicles continue to grow even as your body shrinks with old age; May your heart have fewer congestion problems than DC traffic; May you have fewer wrinkles than antitrust jurisprudence; May your bowel movements be as regular as Congressional inquiries into Bush White House "mistakes"; May [CENSORED] as Bob Dole after the advent of [CENSORED]...Happy 27th

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I have nothing left to accomplish.

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What do alligators, free-roaming horses, jungle cats, and an ancient Greek citizen have in common? Each represents a mascot for the winning college football team is last year's Bowl Championship Series. In the intervening 6 months since Florida "upset" undefeated Ohio State by 4 touchdowns, the excitement and controversy surrouding collegiate athletics has been overshadowed by doping, dogfighting

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-41824396462370392772007-02-12T23:48:00.000-05:002007-02-12T23:59:33.839-05:00

Since my permissions have been down-graded and I am no longer able to add links to the template, I thought I might make a quick (and yes, shameful) plug for the public policy blog to which I contribute and ask you to visit us sometime.We can be reached at http://www.policymatters.net/. I should also mention that I am the Editor-in-Chief of the policy journal by the same name (PolicyMatters) and

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-32687021396888632802007-01-31T12:12:00.000-05:002007-01-31T12:44:44.030-05:00

Sufjan Stevens is coming to DC to play a free concert at the Kennedy Center next month and both Janelle and I love Sufjan and his wacky music. The only hitch was that you had to wait in line to get a hold of the free tickets last saturday. We didn't go wait in line because it was cold and because I'm trying to savor my last few months of uninterrupted sleeping in. Our thought was this: "free

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-7635395660237604632007-01-31T10:32:00.000-05:002007-01-31T10:40:14.838-05:00

So some law school friends and I were discussing the merits of adopting orphans, and I pointed out that when I was a missionary in Rio de Janeiro, after we baptized the manager of an orphanage, about 15 young orphan souls were brought to the light of the gospel - all of them between 15 and 18 years of age. On Sundays, we would take sometimes 30 orphans to Church, singing songs as we go, "Nos

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My child is due to be born any day now, and it would have been super-convenient if she could have been born TODAY when I was scheduled to be "ON-DECK" in my law school class. That is, when I was scheduled to be "grilled" by my Con Law II professor. Similarly, I am "on deck" tomorrow in Secured Transactions.So here's the thing. I told my unborn daughter that she is GROUNDED for not being born

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I just overheard two 1Ls have the following conversation, I couldn't believe it... they were discussing "plagiarism" rules, because the girl said she could just cut and paste other people's words into her motion argument, and that wasn't plagiarism: GIRL: "there is no plagiarism in legal writing - people don't seem to get this, because they are in the undergraduate mindset!! our professor has

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This weekend the GW Law School chapter of JRCLS inaugurated the nation's first National Religious Freedom Moot Court (see our website for info on the great panels and a little on the problem!).As the competition concluded, one of our final round federal judges' had a difficult time leaving the law school when his car refused to start... JRCLS President Marc Bohn frantically called me to find out

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I have two things to say to you people. One is serious, and the other involves a banana pretending to be a worm.Which do you want first?Ok, I'll start with the serious stuff. So, periodically, I get in a church funk, and these funks usually manifest themselves in the form of thoughts, thoughts like this: "church is boring, and there are a lot of wackos who I should probably love as fellow

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1169047147733925002007-01-17T10:18:00.000-05:002007-01-17T10:19:22.956-05:00

I saw an advertisement at our law school for an upcoming "Roe v. Wade Bake Sale" and my first thought was, "What are they going to do, sell raw cookie dough? what, deformed cookies missing some of the ingredients? What kind of a cookie sale IS this?!"And then it occurred to me it might be a bake sale comemmorating Roe v. Wade, not selling aborted cookies. Although, it might be clever to set up an

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We did one of those 3D ultrasounds, thanks to a friend of my father-in-law, who is a doctor.This is our daughter, hangin' out in the womb....... this next picture is where I started poking my wife's belly, and the baby didn't like it so much, so she made faces at us. She also stuck out her tongue, but we didnt get a still picture of that.

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Hello blogland. I am still alive, if only barely.As I'm sure you folks know by now Gerald Ford, the only person never elected to the office of President or Vice-President, has died. I'm sure he was a good guy and/or a decent president, but I've concluded that the media LOVES dead presidents oh so much more than live ones. I havn't heard such glowing praise for a politician since Ronald Regan died

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1166493009410447322006-12-18T20:40:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:53:34.913-05:00

Best Christmas Movies Ever:Die HardNational Lampoon's Christmas VacationHome AloneGremlinsIt's a Wonderful LifeThe Muppet Christmas CarolScroogedBetter Off Dead (not really about Christmas, but it is in there)You'll notice that I have excluded A Christmas Story, that is because after years of thinking it is good, watching it and realizing it is incredibly over rated and really not that funny,

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1165437613579340552006-12-06T15:40:00.000-05:002006-12-06T15:40:24.380-05:00

The holidays are a big time for travel. As far as mass transportation of human beings in the US goes there is probably no other time when so many people are using the various forms of mass transit available to us. I traveled on various modes of such transit this Thanksgiving weekend, bus, train, airplane and boat. As I went about my tavels, and in the time since, I have realized that there are

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1164932882836257422006-11-30T19:18:00.000-05:002006-11-30T19:28:03.840-05:00

So I saw this guy at the law school today, with earbuds in, jammin' to music, like all law school students, purchasing junk food from the vending machines. But then I noticed that attached to his hip was not the uber small iPod but instead a very, very large... Walkman! That's right, complete with TAPEDECK, whizzing and whirring. That, friends, is old school. Old school is cool.

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Accusations of torrid lesbian love affairs? Gay congressmen sex online? Incestuous child molestation in Bangkok? A children's book and torture?! The political commercials, debates, and interviews this election season are right out of a Latino telenovela or Latin American election cycle... In fact, to make this look like a true-blue Latin American election, all we need is to catch a politician in

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As many of you know, my job is, uh, not my favorite thing in the world. (There I said it nicely.) Lately though it has been fairly tolerable until this week. I have written before about my boss with the purse or the MURSE as we decided to call it, but I have some strange new events to report and I don't intend to be mean about it in any way, more just incredulous and kind of at a loss of what to

Catnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1161351177428910902006-10-20T09:32:00.000-04:002006-10-20T09:32:58.240-04:00

My wife and I were on the shuttle from the subway to our apartment, sitting next to a guy that I talk to every morning/afternoon on the way to the shuttle. Let's call him "Danilo." A few rows in front of us sat fellow LDS law student Matt. I wanted to introduce Matt to Danilo, since the live pretty close to each other.I yelled "Matt!" several times. No response. I tried yelling his last name, no

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For any ya'll out there in LYMA land who have traveled with children lately, I know you'll feel my pain... My wife and I were flying out of Salt Lake with my son a couple of weeks ago. On the way to the airport, my mother gave my son a gift - a "Patrick Star" liquid filled squishy toy. (Frankly, I was more excited about the toy than my son, but that's my right as a father!) We threw the toy in

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1161131580882583402006-10-17T20:24:00.000-04:002006-10-17T20:33:01.376-04:00

So LYMA actually gets a lot more outside traffic than one might expect, mostly from unsuspecting Google-users who are looking for information that they most assuredly DO NOT find on LYMA. I love seeing some of the funky searches that lead people to LYMA. One of the MOST COMMON Google searches is a search for "fettucine and broccolli" which is an incorrect spelling of that wonderful vegetable that

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I recognize the systems: A stomach roughly the size of a soccer and growing; frequent gaseousness; voracious appetite, but you can't really eat very much all at once because you get full too quickly; difficulty sleeping; you can feel something moving around inside your stomach; chronic fatigue.Yep. Intestinal worms.Either that, or she's six months pregnant.

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So there is another tobacco lawsuit. I have mixed feelings about this type of lawsuit. On one hand I think it is kind of ridiculous to choose to smoke for thirty years and then blame someone else when you get cancer. On the other hand, it would certainly put a smile on my face to see big tobacco lose billions of dollars, regardless of why or how. I don't know what kind of success these suits

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1159810257136751392006-10-02T13:30:00.000-04:002006-10-02T13:30:58.350-04:00

Jerry Seinfeld does a bit about the Olympics that is pretty good. In it he talks about the biathalon in the winter olympics, that is the one where you combine cross country skiing and shooting a rifle, Seinfled jokes that this makes about as much sense as a swimming event where you stop to choke someone at the end of the pool. I have discovered that an equally odd combination of events has been

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1159156827751071122006-09-24T23:50:00.000-04:002006-09-25T00:00:28.263-04:00

Delilah Syndrome. As in, named after the Delilah from the Bible. You know, the one that harassed and harangued poor Sampson. That's what my wife has. She has "Delilah Syndrome."Now, before you get all uppity yuppity and angry and say, how dare you compare your wife to DELILAH, aka, one of the most hated women in the Bible, let me explain what Delilah Syndrome is, and what it is NOT.Delilah

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NOTE: For the record, this post is not "Anti-Leftist", "Anti-Developing Country", "Pro-Capitalist" "Pro-Bush" or any other silly label, except, perhaps, the silly label, "Anti-Nutjob"At the UN summit, Chavez reminded the US that he hates us, and that Bush is "el Diablo" who smells like sulfur. Previously, he called Bush "cosmic dust" - a great insult, I think, but I just can't figure out what it

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At lunch today, Chris G. and I were discussing the pity we feel for the Rolling Stones every time they come out with a new album; it really is sad to see these shrivled old men are pretending to be something they're not, something they once were....long, long ago. We both agreed that it would be fine if the Stones wanted to still tour and play their old songs, but trying to come up with new

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1158240474075895142006-09-14T09:22:00.000-04:002006-09-14T09:27:55.310-04:00

Check out this must-see homemade music video on YouTube. You have to admit, it's impressive that they went to every one of those cities. It must have taken a long time because the dude has a mullet in some of the shots, and doesn't in others, and also, the seasons change (look for the snow!) yet they are still lip syncing the words, so it was all premeditated.

Catnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1158167371999144932006-09-13T13:07:00.000-04:002006-09-13T13:09:34.946-04:00

I really must give kudos to the men and women at Leapfrog for not letting their products become the devil's playtool. Recently I was sitting with my son reading books when he accidentally bumped this leapfrog caterpillar we own. It is green, about a foot and a half long, and meant to teach children the alphabet. On each of the caterpillar's feet there is letter that, depending on which setting

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1158027074135347932006-09-11T21:54:00.000-04:002006-09-11T22:12:16.053-04:00

I always love looking through other people's CD collections, it's loke looking into their soul. I'd like to know more about the musical preferences (and therefore the inner workings) of the LYMA crew. I think it would be interesting to find out what you all listen to after a year or so of reading your posts, it might also be a good way to discover and share the bands you all like. I wanted to

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1157664443426794832006-09-07T17:26:00.000-04:002006-09-07T17:31:04.660-04:00

Does anyone else find this amusing? As I was leaving school today, I noticed that the Law School's Feminist Club was having a bake sale to raise funds. Maybe next time they can earn some money by charging there fellow students a small fee for painting their fingernails or for cleaning their kitchens.

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1157663591299569862006-09-07T17:13:00.000-04:002006-09-07T17:13:11.793-04:00

So here I am fretting over the recent "letting-alone" of our poor, neglected Let Your Mind Alone, when I realized this: I don't need to impress anyone with a bi-weekly serving of witty pop-ologies held together with the stellar logic and brilliant prose of true cosmopolitan. I've decided that blogs (this one at least) shouldn't be an exercise in self-vanity, nor are they particulary well-built

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1157140678361035082006-09-01T15:55:00.000-04:002006-09-01T15:58:02.456-04:00

Just another cool web site.http://pandora.com/It is a shoot off of the Music Genome Project, you put in a few artists you like and it automatically compiles a radio station of music that you might like based on those artists. Pretty cool stuff, and a good way to discover new tunes

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1156359538804859882006-08-23T14:57:00.000-04:002006-08-23T14:59:22.506-04:00

The job hunt into the vast world of corporate law has made me appreciate this a lot more. It is pretty funny and he also wrote a book that I hear is good.http://www.anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1156184042006891382006-08-21T14:13:00.000-04:002006-08-21T14:21:08.863-04:00

Working for the federal government this summer seems to have drained all of the residual creativity that my first year of law school so generously left behind. Go figure. I was looking at old posts today (pre-Sheldon, Chris M.G., et al. - was there ever really such a time?) and noticed that this one never recieved any comments; most likely a sign that it was just a crappy post. But I liked it,

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1155826499734556082006-08-17T10:39:00.000-04:002006-08-21T11:15:54.846-04:00

...and the livin' is easy...... or at least it is supposed to be according to the song. In a sad and strange turn of events, I, who used to LOVE summer, have come to really not enjoy it at all. I think this is due to the event of WORK, which makes me think that should I ever get a real job, it should be teaching so I can have the Summer off.There is so much that can be done during the summer and

Catnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1155314634218805872006-08-11T12:43:00.000-04:002006-08-21T11:23:04.853-04:00

Ok, it's bottom of the 9th, two outs, your team is ahead 3-2. There is a runner on third. At bat, the other team's best hitter. On deck, the worst hitter. Do you:A) Try to strike him out?B) Intentionally walk him?C) Bean the sucker in the head?Answer: B - You don't want to pitch to him, he'll get a hit and win the game. You don't want to bean him, if you miss that could mean the tying run steals

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1155156379334792302006-08-09T16:45:00.000-04:002006-08-09T16:46:29.883-04:00

This is our new Betta fish Herb. We got him for my wife's birthday last week. An interesting thing I learned about Betta fish as I prepared to buy him is that they don't like other Betta fish. In fact if you hold a mirror up to them they try to fight the reflection. I thought this might be an interesting thing to try once or twice when we got the fish, however I have since realized that fish

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1154727169315426972006-08-04T17:27:00.000-04:002006-08-04T17:32:49.676-04:00

...filing in the 3rd Judicial District Court of Salt Lake City (Case No. 0609112170), Stephen Shane Vance (aka 'Jesus Christ') filed a lawsuit against Gordon B. Hinckley for control of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints "so that me Jesus Christ can run for president and accomplish world peace."Although filed on 06 Jul, 2006, many think that it would have been much more fitting to

Siyadownoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1154569249456212702006-08-02T21:23:00.000-04:002006-08-02T21:42:18.790-04:00

A friend (to protect his anonanymity) and I were having a discussion about the fox dancing reality show "So You Think You Can Dance" (and yes I am deeply ashamed). We had a little difference of opinion when it comes to the LDS contestant (after some research I discovered that three of the final eight were actuall LDS, crap). My friend is of the opinion that he always wants mormons to do well

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1154535758107680452006-08-02T12:21:00.000-04:002006-08-02T18:10:42.563-04:00

In a recent comment Sheldon implied that Salt Lake sits near the top of the Google Trends list for places with the highest ratio of persons searching the word "pornography." With google's authoritative results before my eyes, I suddenly realized that my biannual eye-rollings at the General Conference talks on the subject may have, in fact, been out of place. Not that I ever disagreed with the

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1154469613119279452006-08-01T17:58:00.000-04:002006-08-01T18:14:17.360-04:00

Here are a few excerpts from a recent speech by Barak Obama. I won't detract from it by commenting, except to say that it is nice to know that there's at least one Democrat out there who gets it."For some time now, there has been plenty of talk among pundits and pollsters that the political divide in this country has fallen sharply along religious lines. Indeed, the single biggest "gap" in party

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1154455530639047812006-08-01T14:05:00.000-04:002006-08-01T14:05:30.796-04:00

It appears some members of LYMA may be due for some notoriety.

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1154044063095393822006-07-27T19:39:00.000-04:002006-07-27T19:47:44.063-04:00

There was an article in Sports Illustrated this week about google's newest piece of brilliance (Sheldon, if you haven't seen this you'll love it). Salt Lake leads the world in searching for "nude volleyball", jeopardy, and mullets. Apparently The Simpsons are huge in Australia and the Brits love Bill and Ted. Who can find the most surprising number one city?http://www.google.com/trends

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1153948103059411502006-07-26T17:08:00.000-04:002006-07-26T17:09:47.400-04:00

Last week there was much ado about President Bush letting loose the "s-word" while miked. When I first saw the mildly amusing video (shown here at YouTube.com) I was surprised more by what I saw than by what I heard.To this day I belive that Karl Rove's greatest accomplishment has been selling George W. Bush - a silver-spooned, prep-high, Ivy-league aristocrat - as a homegrown Texas cowboy. In

Doug Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05070423039096215978noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1153621699087867292006-07-22T22:21:00.000-04:002006-07-23T01:38:09.416-04:00

Hello LYMA land! As a little deversion and end-of-summer humor, post your favorite SNL skit for the benefit of all.

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1153420160828139202006-07-20T14:22:00.000-04:002006-07-20T14:29:21.250-04:00

Yesterday, I had a shocking reminder that my husband’s favorite season is closing in on us. Although months away, small signs of its approach are beginning to appear; talk of changes in television programming for next season, Monday night in particular, Chris’ plane ticket purchased far in advance to share that special day with close friends, and shifts in apparel from this season to next, hats

jaime_ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03627543040472300791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1153143660758041912006-07-17T09:33:00.000-04:002006-07-17T09:41:00.936-04:00

This is a CNN picture of a terrorist.This is a CNN picture of Johnny Depp as Cap'n Jack Sparrow:YOU WILL NEVER CONVINCE ME THAT THE DUDE IN THE FIRST PICTURE DIDNT SEE THE FIRST PIRATES MOVIE BEFORE BLOWING HIMSELF UP...

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Kathleen at BCC is concerned with reconciling the omniscience/foreknowledge of God with the agency of man. I’m more concerned with a related problem: how to reconcile the omnipotence of God with the agency of man. To get at this question, I am concerned with the interplay between choice and prayer. That is, how an omnipotent God can answer a prayer-request that requires a choice by a third party.

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I really do want to be an accepting and understanding male. But no matter how hard I try, I always seem to screw it up. Many a time I've found myself on the receiving end of a shocked stare after having made an inadvertent statement that offended the opposite sex. I don't think I'm quite as bad as say Napoleon Dynamite who offered the compliment, "You're not fat you know... you could be drinking

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1152726569732723382006-07-12T13:49:00.000-04:002006-07-13T22:03:57.990-04:00

My new boss came to work last week. My old boss left for Tokyo the week before, so it has been relatively quiet. It is still fairly quiet as my new boss tries to figure out the ropes. But while he tries to figure out the ropes, I'm trying to figure HIM out.My boss carries a purse. I mean in no way, shape or form for this post to make fun of my boss. I just HONESTLY want to know why a man would

Catnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1152657074214019682006-07-11T18:00:00.000-04:002006-07-11T18:33:49.500-04:00

I'm all for thought-provoking symbolism in movies, but Superman Returns was just too much. I just wanted to scream at the director for feeling the necessity of pounding the "Superman-as-Christ-Figure" idea into my head. Mr. Singer, I get what you're trying to say!!! How about next time we just let the people with the ears hear, and then let the others just enjoy a man in tights flying. Sorry,

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1152649332515315532006-07-11T16:17:00.000-04:002006-07-11T16:22:13.406-04:00

I have a friend who works at Cleanflicks and said that during the latest encounter with the district court judge, there was some settlement discussion, the judge asked Mel Gibson's lawyers to deliver an invitation to Mel Gibson for a party the judge was hosting. "Your honor!" said a Cleanflicks attorney, "you cant be serious!" to which the judge responded, "well, it IS Mel Gibson..." Later on,

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The picture you see is Samar Hassan. She is five years old. She is covered in the blood of her parents, who were killed by US troops in Iraq. Her mother was pregnant. Her family was killed when they "unwittingly approached US soldiers [in their car]." I have nothing else to say about this image.The second picture you see is from an exhibit at Arlington National Cemetery called "Faces of the

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So Vlad Putin stops in the middle of the road, kneels down, pulls up this kid's shirt, and KISSES HIS BELLY. Then gets up and LEAVES. I am NOT MAKING THIS UP.This is why I wish the Cold War were still on. Can you imagine how cool it would have been to have Reagan make fun of Crazy Vlad? Or maybe like, a new song by Bruce Springsteen about Crazy Russian Belly Kissing? Maybe a movie called "FERRIS

---noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1151428976561269832006-06-27T13:22:00.000-04:002006-06-27T13:23:06.100-04:00

This is a slam dunk, super easy choice for me. I say we eliminate all the smoking. Mostly, it's about the numbers.Smoking directly kills about 5 million people a year, according to one study. In many countries, smoking-deaths are the number one preventable cause of death. Comparatively, thus far nuclear weapons have only managed to kill a few hundred thousand people.And let's not forget the

---noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1151337662244639472006-06-26T11:59:00.000-04:002006-06-26T12:03:26.156-04:00

Marc B has a great post about the Cannon-Jacob primary election in Utah. Here is what the SLTrib reported:As if beating a five-term congressman wasn't hard enough, John Jacob said he has another foe working against him: the devil."There's another force that wants to keep us from going to Washington, D.C.," Jacob said. "It's the devil is what it is. I don't want you to print that, but it feels

---noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1151251632716170132006-06-25T11:40:00.000-04:002006-06-25T12:07:13.113-04:00

No one would generally think of Utah as being tapped into the political heartbeat of the nation. Issuewise, its not. But political-movenmentwise I feel like it is. You have to be uber-conservative or uber-liberal. There is no inbetween. Why would you want an inbetween? For most of my life I've found refuge during political conversations being a moderate. If there is one thing I've learned,

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1150673154349775582006-06-18T19:25:00.001-04:002006-06-18T21:22:50.440-04:00

When President Packer spoke at the recent Women's Conference, he seemed to say that he is grateful for illegal immigration. Here is what he said: "Recently there was printed in an international publication an article under the strange title of 'Babies Win Wars.' It chronicled several centuries of the history of countries that lost population. When they had difficulty in sustaining their

---noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1150284807109270522006-06-14T07:17:00.000-04:002006-06-14T09:26:19.306-04:00

Yesterday while checking stuff out on wikipedia I was looking up famous books to see what interesting facts I could learn about them and I noticed that a lot of them were on this list.Wow, People have way too much time on their hands. A few posts back I commented on Chris' post about the FCC's purposed new decency fines. I said something along the lines that if you don't want to see something on

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149878556952274262006-06-09T14:41:00.000-04:002006-06-09T18:39:25.473-04:00

What did the bra say to the hat? You go on ahead, while I give these two a lift. Imagine saying that line in a prayer. I have to admit I hadn’t really ever thought about telling jokes while praying, or even being too light-hearted for that matter, until last night.I went to a R.S. enrichment night and a girl bore her testimony about prayer. She said she often tells jokes while praying to our

Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791416794060194276noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149775186510241032006-06-08T09:39:00.000-04:002006-06-09T18:38:21.616-04:00

Here’s what bugs me about politics: inconsistancy. Conservatives yell and scream at the mere suggestion of excessive government regulation. They hurl epithets at those crazy liberals who, they say, would have the government raise our children. But yesterday, the house passed a bill that sent indecency fines for broadcasters soaring, from $32,500 per incident to $325,000. Now maybe indecency isn’t

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149607950032284592006-06-06T11:06:00.000-04:002006-06-06T16:55:27.470-04:00

I must admit that I have been extremely surprised at many of the responses to the letter from the First Presidency asking us to contact our Senators to support marriage between a man and a woman. I understand that this is an emotionally charged and extremely complicated issue. It is not the issue at hand that has surprised me. I, myself am still a little at a loss of what to think. I know that

Catnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149556543100282872006-06-05T21:14:00.000-04:002006-06-05T21:31:43.886-04:00

Well I'm pretty sure I haven't hit that elusive “real world" quite yet (as opposed to the “not-so-real world” of a law stuent), but the first period has ended and I've decided to take off my skates and spend my summer cloistered deep within a federal agency while the proverbial zamboni machine smoothes the ice over. During this past year as a 1L I felt like I was always looking up at laws -

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149303295501925602006-06-02T22:54:00.000-04:002006-06-03T16:39:19.430-04:00

Here...

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149265758924140922006-06-02T12:28:00.000-04:002006-06-02T20:53:19.000-04:00

I've been here at the Public Defender's office for three weeks now, and I've seen some really fascinating issues daeling with our criminal justice system. One thing that has become very apparent to me is that mental illness is a huge issue in criminal justice, and there are a lot of difficult decisions to be made in the area.Recently I was in the court house watching our trials and there were ack

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149202506105743202006-06-01T18:54:00.000-04:002006-06-02T07:39:28.423-04:00

Just wanted to post part of the email text from one of my employees for the summer. I thought it was rather inspiring. So much so, in fact, that I'm now 3 days into 'his' program. We'll see how it turns out.He writes:"Yes it is true I am working on memorizing the Book of Mormon. Do not be too astonished. I am not that far in yet. Thomas S Monson said that if you memorize a verse a day for a

Siyadownoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149191955612356732006-06-01T15:59:00.000-04:002006-06-01T16:00:21.950-04:00

I found this link at timesandseasons.org. CRAZY.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2201183,00.html

Catnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1149161857813333512006-06-01T07:25:00.000-04:002006-06-02T07:38:36.206-04:00

The day has come. I now hold in my hand the envelope that will change my life forever. It contains my filled out order form to become a Washington Capitals season ticket holder. Dreams do come true.As long as I can remember I have looked up to the great people who can take 8(pro football) to 81 (major league baseball) nights each season and dedicate them to the team, and as I walk by the

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1148786689305159722006-05-27T23:08:00.000-04:002006-05-31T10:19:08.420-04:00

Ok. I was pretty vocal among my friends when Flight 93 came out; I intended to write a post about it, but finals got in the way. It is way too soon for Hollywood to be attempting to make money on a national tragedy. I would have been more concerned, but Flight 93 came and went so quickly in headlines and conversations that I almost forgot it existed. That is until my unexpected viewing of the

Bubbanoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1148492121249183232006-05-24T13:21:00.000-04:002006-05-24T14:24:09.166-04:00

I don't know why, but this sort of thing really gets me excited. Maybe it's because I'm a "diversity for diversity's sake" kind of guy; or, maybe it's just that finally we'll get some good music at church (sorry dan).

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1147715924616768902006-05-15T13:56:00.000-04:002006-05-16T18:07:03.686-04:00

Agency is a great thing. It really is. Now don't take me too seriously, but there are some days when I wonder ( only slightly) if the growth that comes from struggling and making our own decisions is really worth it. Life would be so much easier if someone else made life's big decisions for us.I suffer from abulia, that is the inability to make decisions. It stems, partly from a lack of knowing

Catnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1147692058266320112006-05-15T06:58:00.000-04:002006-05-15T07:43:43.673-04:00

Since we are already talking about God's political preferences, this is what I think about it. I think that maybe we would all be better off if politicians were not allowed to invoke the almighty at all. I am all for good god fearing people holding office, and I think that it is okay for someone's religious beliefs to influence their political ideas (and even their actions once they are in

Chris M. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987445116688178268noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1147376318848326502006-05-11T15:37:00.000-04:002006-05-15T18:17:51.050-04:00

I figured that before the next episode comes out this week, I needed to make a public confession. No, not that I'm a LOST addict - in fact, I'm proud of that title (along with many of you, I'm sure). No, not that I dread returning home on Wednesday night anywhere after 8:30 ... just to be sure. Not even that I forced my roomies to watch every commercial in hopes that a new Hanso Foundation Ad

Siyadownoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1147371127108709452006-05-11T13:27:00.000-04:002006-05-11T14:48:25.576-04:00

Ok, I admit that my blog posts sometimes devolve into a griping session where what I write is no so much intended to generate discussion, but instead meant to serve as a platform for me to pat myself on the back about how well I can complain about another meaningless subject. I'll try and do better. But before I change my whining ways, I have one more thing to complain about:"the American people.

Chrisnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199517.post-1147302631731260122006-05-10T19:04:00.000-04:002006-05-11T14:43:15.563-04:00

Couldn't resist passing this along (especially from the earlier prodding from Chris insisting that I "pull my share of the posting weight around this blog" - ok, he didn't say that, but he could have). Anyway, I pulled this from an email sent today by my roomie. I think it runs well with Taylor's previous post.He writes:I just realized why GBH talked about racism at last GC's Priesthood Session

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