How to Use Twitter Like a Pro, or at Least Better than @davidpogue

malki http://xrl.us/becqjm: Most people have no idea how Twitter could possibly be useful, in any conceivable world, ever. Also get off their lawn
about 11 hours ago from twitterrific
Some people are clueless and cranky about new technology. Some are eager early adopters. And some are eager and clueless.
David Pogue, a tech writer for the NY Times, [...]

Child of Mormonism

Well. I wasn’t expecting to move anytime soon, but a room opened up in Craig’s house and—it’s done. I moved out of my old apartment over the weekend, and now I’m slowly starting to settle into my new place. It’s weird having a roommate, and it’s especially weird not knowing where to put any of [...]

This Letter Is for You

At my birthday party last night—YES, IT WAS AWESOME—I got into a conversation with a friend about belief, atheism, and leaving Mormonism. Both of us have resigned from the Mormon church, and both of us have had to break that news to our parents, and we compared stories of how our mothers had reacted to [...]

Gender-Conformity FAIL

In honor of Transgender Awareness Day, I’d like to take this opportunity to come out of the closet.
I am a supporter of transgender rights. First, I support the existence of transgender people. The gender binary—where everyone is slotted into either “male” or “female” roles, with societally approved modes of expression and activities—is false. It does [...]

Friendship in a Digital Age

That I’m in contact with any of my old friends is a miracle—specifically a Facebook miracle. It’s thanks to Facebook that I’m still in touch with former roommates, former BYU friends, former dance partners, former fellow grad students, former coworkers, former professors and former boyfriends, as well as cousins, aunts, online acquaintances, fellow atheists, fellow [...]

Mr. Clayton, It’s a Bit Late to Talk About “Civility,” Don’t You Think?

Proposition 8 just passed in California, amending the state constitution to take the right to marry away from gay couples. And I will be blunt: I blame the Mormon church.
When the fight was just gearing up this summer it seemed like official Mormon involvement would be minimal, limited to a letter the Mormon prophet sent [...]

Reasons Mormons Shouldn’t Care about Gay Marriage (and Why They REALLY Do)

By now you’ve all heard the arguments the Yes on 8 or Yes on 102 or Yes on Amendment 2 folks have made for why gay couples shouldn’t be allowed to marry. And you’ve also heard that the Mormon church has once again entered the fray in California, pouring thousands of dollars and thousands of [...]

Through a Glass, Darkly

As anyone who has spent much time on this blog knows, I was raised Mormon in a very conservative, very Mormon household. I went to church every Sunday, unless I was deathly ill or was able to convincingly fake being so. I attended early-morning youth religion classes every school day for four years. I received [...]

In Which My Quest to Make My Blog Truly Alone and Unobserved Proceeds Apace

I know already that this is where I may lose more religious readers, even some of the ones who made it past yesterday’s labyrinthine treatise on privilege, but I have to say it: calling your gay friends and family to repentance is not okay.
Scot blogs about his husband and twin sons over at Cog. Recently [...]

The Monologuist

I wasn’t hungry at noon today, so I spent my lunch hour exercising in the library’s tiny workout room. Afterwards I was changing in the likewise tiny locker room, feeling a sense of manly accomplishment, when I heard a noise from the bathroom stall. My immediate reaction was to think, There’s someone else in here. [...]