Home for the Holidays

Finals ended late last week, and I’m now back home in Salt Lake City with my family.  Little Jodi traveled with me and has, after a short period of assimilation, really taken to my parents’ home.



I wish you all a very Merry Christmas as we wait together for the return of our Savior.

First Final Complete. Two to Go.

Your friendly host and seminarian completed his first seminary final yesterday for Systematic Theology. The first three exam sections required essay responses, and the last section asked for term definitions and implications. After writing 11 pages in three hours, I cast my answers onto the mercy of our benevolent professor. Two more finals are scheduled this week. Old Testament begins tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., and Church History is this coming Friday. Then, blissful sleep happens.

Ouch

From OpinionJournal.com's "Tony & Tacky":

DOGGIE BAGGED: A police dog in Minneapolis has been temporarily relieved of duty after biting a naked suspect in the groin. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that the dog was deployed as cops chased a nude man who was trying to enter houses and that even after being chomped and Tasered, the man continued to fight. Although the dog followed its training, biting only after its handler was struck by the suspect, it has been put on the canine equivalent of administrative leave "while the incident is being reviewed."

Poor dog.

Missing San Francisco

Careful now. We're dealing here with a myth. This city is a point upon a map of fog; Lemuria in a city unknown. Like us, It doesn't quite exist. - Ambrose Bierce

bridge-and-fog Originally uploaded by john curley.

International Jihad Reform Act of 2004

Heh:

The International Jihad Reform Act of 2004 creates a new Cave-level post (similar to a U.S. cabinet-level post) of Global Intelligence Director and a Global Counter-Counter-Terrorism Center to coordinate information from the far-flung network of terror cells that have done a poor job of communicating across cell walls.

Classes Have Ended - Finals Are Next

12 weeks of lectures and mid-terms exams came to an end last Friday, and I cannot believe how quickly the time has passed. We're now in the midst of "Reading Week," a time to prepare ourselves for three major final exams: Systematic Theology, Old Testament, and Church History. The exams are scheduled for next Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, respectively.



Then, Christmas!

Something's Wrong with Kansas? Uh, no.

Regarding Thomas Frank's popular, "What's the Matter with Kansas?":

"It's possible his view of us is outdated," says Jim Martin, executive director of the Shawnee [Kansas] Economic Development Council, in classic Midwestern understatement.

I won't be buying Frank's book.