Orson Scott Card has a new book called Empire out. It’s apparently a mix between Tom Clancy and a cautionary tale about how our political differences are getting a tad out of hand. We’ll see if this is one of the all too often of late mediocre Card books or one of his fantastic ones. For those interested Instapundit has a post and podcast interview with Card about the book. Since you can’t comment there, feel free to comment here.

Hopefully the last note on the whole 9/11 – Steve Jones sage. According to published reports Steve Jones’ book on the 9/11 Conspiracy is not going to be published. [Edit: Correction - see below]

“The conspiracy theory is spurious and based on questionable research,” Kenneth Godshall, chairman of the board, said Nov. 8. “This particular volume is not up to WJK editorial standards and not representative of the PPC publishing program.”

Note that Jones was not the one writing the above book. My apologies for the confusion. I should have read more closely at what was sent me. The book is this one by David Ray Griffin. Steve Jones has written praising the book but wasn’t involved in the book itself so far as I know. My apologies for passing along bad information.

I should note Griffin was the leader of the of the 9/11 conspiracy group, to which Steven Jones of BYU belonged.

Deseret News posted a short piece on a new book, The Mormon Way of Doing Business.  It looks at eight LDS CEOs and how they do business.  No doubt you could guess two or three of the eight.  Those profiled in the book include David Neelman (CEO of Jet Blue); Dave Checketts (formerly CEO of Madison Square Garden); Kim Clark (former Dean of the Harvard Business School); and Kevin Rollins (CEO of Dell Computer).  Amazon lists the publication date as January 3, 2007, so it’s not clear whether you can get your hands on a copy in time to put under the Christmas tree of the aspiring Mormon business tycoon in your family.

BYU 33 Utah 31

The winning touchdown pass came on the last play of the game with 0:00 on the clock. Never again will they be able to say John Beck cannot win a close game.

Awwwww Yeeeeeeah

Well done Cougs.

On June 9, 1999, the Dallas Morning News ran a story on eighteen year-old college student Mitzi Pool, whose body was discovered hanging in her dorm room in apparent suicide with her checkbook and recent bills from 3 maxed-out credit card accounts spread out on the bed below. (more…)

Clicking through on the links at Kage’s blog tales from the crib where her new album is announced, I landed on Kage’s official-looking personal website where I learned she is a musician and an advertising model. As I looked at her picture, I thought that I surely knew her from somewhere. Reading her website a little more closely, I discovered she is the one in the Nuvaring commercials that are often aired during some of my favorite shows in the evening. For some reason, I just find it very interesting that the Bloggernacle’s own Kage is pretty famous by virtue of these and other commercials, not to mention her musical debut. It will be very strange the next time I see the Nuvaring commercial to realize that the woman I am watching there is a Mormon blogger! It is a weird intersection of blogging and the real world even though it is a T.V. commercial, which actually isn’t so real-world, and yet we feel we know Kage through her blogging and there we can see her on national T.V. She also appears to be an aspiring stage actress. Anyway, congratulations to the Bloggernacle’s own Kage for the achievement of releasing her first album and for her achievements in modelling.