Stephen's Thoughts

Picto Diary - 18 August 2025 - Golden Spike

These days it's hard to internalize the significance of the transcontinental railway. But its completion signified the beginning of an era in America equal import to the widespread use of electricity which was to come some twenty-five years later. Before 10 May 1869 it took almost five months to travel overland from New York City to San Franciso. After 10 May 1869, it took a week.

Beetle Stories

Picto Diary - 10 to 17 August 2025 - Bishop's 80th

Eighty years old today. 12 August 2025

Putin in the Cat Bird Seat (6) - Baltic Threat?

No Compromises with TDS

Putin in the Catbird Seat (5) - Life's a Bitch

Picto Diary - 01 to 09 August 2026 - Grandkids... summer munch.

All five grandkids munch on a summer meal.

Picto Diary - 23 to 31 July 2025 - Happy Pioneer Day

A bunch of woke pols railroaded a new sick, "inclusive," flag as the state flag a couple of years ago. I continue to use this traditional flag, lest the pioneer spirit and sacrifice that created this grate (sic) state be forgotten.

Daily Blog - 30 July 2025 - Are Mormons Christian?

Daily Blog - 29 July 2028 - Trump's between a rock and a hard place.

Threats to MAGA for the '26 Midterms

"The Mormon Prophet and his Harem" by C.V. Waite

If the reader can allow for the bias, the book is an excellent early history of Utah and the state of Mormonism in the 1860s, offering a contemporary perspective on a pivotal period in Mormon history.