Things here at The Times have been winding down a bit the last few weeks. Bloggers have real lives, you know! To give everyone a break, I’m going to declare a Summer Vacation: Issue No. 15 will be the last formal issue until the fall. We’ll be back online in late September, just in time for October General Conference. In the interim, the editors may continue posting Zeitgeist and The Last Word on a weekly or semi-weekly basis, but no regular article sets will appear until the end of the summer (except for the occasional rogue post that might somehow sneak through to the main page).

The Joseph Seminar, Part III by Justin Butterfield
President Hinckley and Tort Reform by Blaine
Science and the Book of Mormon by Clark Goble
Weekly Zeitgeist by Steve
The Last Word by Dave

Here’s the last word for this slower-than-usual issue of the Bloggernacle Times: Banner of Heaven (BH) is your new LDS blog of the week. Who are these guys (and gals)? And just what does SeptimusH mean? Seven of something, I take it. Great banner, nice shot of rays of light descending from … heaven. Okay, Banner of Heaven, I get it. As revealed by the White Wizard: Behind the grey rain-curtain, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
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This week I continue my never-ending look at the Joseph Smith symposium held at the Library of Congress on May 6 and 7. Meridian Magazine has posted some helpful summaries of the symposium sessions:

• Session 1
• Session 2

Dave at Dave’s Mormon Inquiry examines the symposium’s first session here.

Ben H. at Times and Seasons reviews the highlights of the second session here.

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tort; n. Law

Damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully, negligently, or in circumstances involving strict liability, but not involving breach of contract, for which a civil suit can be brought.

Everyone has heard the stories about little accidents that lead to multi-million dollar damage awards. The spilled coffee at McDonalds, the law firms chasing ambulances. Plaintiffs that bring the lawsuits get millions of dollars, drive up our insurance costs, and the lawyers get rich. This, President Bush and others think, requires “tort reform.”

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