Some Favorite Sources of Truth

• The Holy Ghost
• The Scriptures (A good example: 1 Corinthians 13)
• My wife
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Some Favorite Books

• The Monkeywrench Gang, by Ed Abbey, with cartoons by R. Crumb
• The Brothers Karamozov (particularly Book V (the "Pro and Contra" section)), by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Rough-Face Girl, by Rafe Martin, illustrated by David Shannon
• The Boy Who Dreamed of an Acorn, by Leigh Casler, illustrated by Shonto Begay

Some Favorite Music

• Barber's Adagio for Strings
• All the Way by Billy Holiday
• The waves at Cape Arago
• My kids in Primary

Some Favorite Causes Worth Fighting For

• Human rights (important rights like adequate nutrition, basic shelter and health care, and freedom from torture and genocide, not whining about job discrimination in the U.S.)
• Wilderness; protection of large predators
• Liberation theology
• A New International Economic Order

Some Favorite Foods

• Chocolate
• Cheesecake
• Ice cream
• Mexican food
• Italian food
• American food
• Greek food

Some Favorite Art

• Reubens' 1614 crucified Christ
• Klimt's Judith
• Most Egyptian sculpture and architecture
• Lots of chiaroscuro
• Monet's The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists
• My kid's art
• Photos of my wife

Some Favorite Dances

• The Waltz
• The Time Warp

Some Favorite Places to Go

• Home
• The Northwest (of the U.S.A.)
• Glacier National Park; Yellowstone too
• Utah's deserts
• If I were rich: At sea, in my yacht

Some Favorite Movies

• To Kill A Mockingbird
• A Man for All Seasons (the first one, not the remake with that Heston person)
• The Mission
• The Wall
• Visions of Light

Some Favorite Sources of Political Wisdom

• Myself
• P.J. O'Rourke (sometimes)
• John Leo (sometimes)
• 1984, written by George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding
• Night, written by Elie Wiesel

A Favorite Play

• Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

A Favorite Quote I Heard Recently

• "There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth." (Jean Giraudoux)

A Favorite (Sort Of) Aggravation

• "If you see a blind man, kick him. Why should you be kinder than God?"

Some Favorite Roadkills (in my dreams)

• Lon Horiuchi
• Almost any of the millions of mothers who kill their children in any given year
• People who find God in the mirror and who define right and wrong by their own behavior
• New age loonies and other effete, limpid kooks
• Mountain bikers and sport climbers

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