David Golding

Your pro headshot deserves an award! There’s no shade of green for my envy

And Trump spent Christmas morning doing the asking

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

Impeachment and removal now. Abolish ICE. Reform SCOTUS. Retire GOP.

This x1000000

This nearly perfectly describes what I’ve struggled to articulate this past decade

And this is why the mass information echochamber is so maddeningly unreal and fake

Isaiah 5:20: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and [Renee] Good evil.”

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

Who will be the first member of Congress to introduce legislation named after Renee Good that abolishes DHS?

Guy on CNN just now cited Maduro's election loss and subsequent refusal to cede power as a justification for removing him.

Irony's time of death, 6 Jan 2021.

I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives.

But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.

College is not vocational school. Being college-educated should mean more than "trained to do a job." There is joy in living a full intellectual life. If you don't want that, vocational programs are available for a fraction of the cost

Pronouncing “Fanny Alger” Barring the discovery of a stronger direct source indicating an alternative, historians should not need a signal pronunciation to serve as a shibboleth for technical versus amateur understanding of he...

In an MHA presentation about Fanny W. Custer, I described but didn’t explain my pronunciation of “Alger.” Here are my receipts.

(Let’s not use the name “Fanny Alger” to serve as a shibboleth of technical vs. amateur understanding of this woman and her life story.)

davidgolding.com/pronouncing-...

David Golding Historian of Mormonism and Missions

Totally redesigned my personal website, top to bottom. First complete update in over a decade. (Fingers crossed I didn’t miss anything!)

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Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.

Take notes, college presidents.

Notre Dame football player slapping a sign that reads "We're afraid of BYU"

Hegseth watches Clear and Present Danger thinking Harrison Ford is the bad guy and Henry Czerny is the hero

It'd be great if they did this when it didn't personally involve their own families, but baby steps I guess.

The setup is technical. If you can manage one that has an automated mount, all the better. The StarSense Explorer should get the job done. But you’ll need a telescope with a good enough aperture to see Saturn and Jupiter well enough. Zoom often gives blurry or faded view that far out.

I’ve used the Celestron PowerSeeker 127EQ with my little kids and we’ve had excellent views of Jupiter and Saturn. With the right eye piece, we’ve seen some of Jupiter’s Galilean moons.

GitHub - davidgolding/obsidian-colophon: Enhanced long form writing in Obsidian Enhanced long form writing in Obsidian. Contribute to davidgolding/obsidian-colophon development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm building an Obsidian plugin that provides a canvas for long form writing. The idea is to have a distraction-free writing interface geared toward writers, not "hacking" a way for Markdown to provide a typographically aesthetic environment.

github.com/davidgolding...

I haven’t used Google search in a solid year and haven’t missed it

There were survivors of the Grand Blanc Mormon chapel shooting at the game. I'm not sure the victim complex far outstrips the actual reality as you say. And you're right: it happens at almost every BYU road game. I've heard it chanted at games vs. SDSU, UNLV, and Cal going back to the '90s.

Call me an effete liberal snob but I like that Mayor Wu can do this. I like having a mayor who has a developed inner life, who doesn’t give the impression of being hollowed of everything but ambition.

With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.

It was the Utah Supreme Court that sent the appeal back to this judge with a slap on the GOP wrist. They’ll uphold this decision if it comes to it.

It was exceedingly creepy. Wow.

Absolutely. Dodgertown should put on the pressure: no ICE raids, no national guard in our cities, no White House visit