More Posts About Boredom & Glenn Beck

Yay Clash & all, but the song doesn't fulfill its title's promise. Had they been as terminally dulled out as we are by the U.S. of A., they'd have rolled over & gone back to sleep ...

A tiny portion of excerpts from the just-published Beck book, parts of which first appeared in, as the saying goes, a different form, in Slate may amuse or irk enough to provide mild relief in some cases.

Among the practices that distinguish Mormonism from other forms of Christianity is a highly stylized social ritual known as bearing testimony. On the first Sunday of each month, Mormons gather at their local ward house to speak about “what they know to be true.” The format is something like a cross between an open-mic poetry slam and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. One by one, congregants give semi-structured speeches—testimonies—that deal with a central theme; each one usually lasts no longer than a few minutes. These testimonies, structured like radio monologues, describe the feeling of being overwhelmed by the love of Jesus, of struggling against temptation, and of maintaining full dedication to the restoration of the gospel. As the speakers relive these feelings, it is common for them to emote within circumscribed boundaries.

The First Amendment at work.