They're sprouting up all over, aren't they? Orson's Telescope ("Stargazing in the Mormon Universe") features a lot of commentary on Utah culture, and finally posted something about The Telescope That Inspired the Telescope. Then there is By Common Consent ("A liberal minded, yet grossly intolerant, Mormon thought blog. We tolerate dissent but not stupidity."), which featured a little contest to name itself. I might have suggested "Mormon Men Behaving Badly," but By Common Consent has a much friendlier ring to it and I heartily approve. If they have a contest for their tagline, I'd shorten it to "a liberal, tolerant Mormon blog." Assuming they really are both liberal and tolerant, of course.
Dave,
I'd gladly shorten the motto of Common Consent, but I'm not sure yet how tolerant we're actually going to be -- my personal feeling is to ban the trolls that aren't willing to have open discussions. Hence being an intolerant liberal. Kind of a contradiction in terms, I guess....
Posted by: Steve Evans | Mar 14, 2004 at 10:48 AM
Steve, I understand the need to monitor comments. Zealots of either extreme can mess up otherwise pleasant discussions, even ones hosted by the tolerant liberals at BCC.
Posted by: Dave | Mar 15, 2004 at 01:18 AM
Tru dat! I guess my difficulty is that I don't like the idea of censorship, yet I really don't want to listen to extremist views. Strange, no?
You ever had any problems?
Posted by: Steve Evans | Mar 15, 2004 at 03:49 PM
Steve, no problems yet, but I've only had comments since migrating from my old Radio site earlier this month.
Speaking of my old site, would you mind redirecting your Tin Plates link from my old site http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987 to this new site http://mormoninquiry.typepad.com ? Thanks!
Posted by: Dave | Mar 15, 2004 at 04:50 PM
While my blog is not new, I only recently started writing philosophically on it. I wanted to post and say thanks to Dave for the link back.
:-)
Posted by: Kim Siever | Mar 19, 2004 at 02:24 PM
Dave, the link is fixed -- but sadly you were bumped from Tin Plates to Kinderhook. it's completely TIC.
Posted by: Steve Evans | Mar 22, 2004 at 09:27 AM