Ralph "The Doink" Hancock, Cottage Cheese and Midnight Oil

[_Everybody Wang Chung]

Here is Spencer Fluhman's op-ed:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8656 ... itics.html ----------

And here is the MDDB thread from Scott Lloyd about The Doink's response to Fluhman:

http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/689 ... -politics/

I just read both pieces, and while Fluman speaks really about Mormon political pluralism vis-à-vis the immigration policies of Der Drumph, naturally The Doink has to bring the gay marriage issue into it.

We simply can't leave gay marriage alone, even when it leaves us alone. And perhaps, after speaking to one of the senior members of Kirton & McDonkey last week, there is a reason for this unhealthy obsession on gay marriage. Other Socio political issues don't seem to threaten - no matter how remotely the threat might actually be - to deprive the church the tax exempt status.

In other news, I have been eating a lot of cottage cheese lately. I hated the stuff when I was a kid, but now I can't get enough. I love the stuff. It's hard not to eat the whole container whenever I open one up. You know, if tax exempt status really as a threat to the church, vis-à-vis gay marriage, I have a quiet confidence that somehow it's going to work out for the church.

Modern revelation is a wonderful thing, isn't it? 1890 1907 1978... 2021?... Every time the church has been seriously backed into a corner on a Socio-political issue with seemingly no way out, a new revelation has come. I think the church will be just fine...

One of the many excellent bands that came out of the late 80's and early 90's was Midnight Oil. (Peter Garrett's dancing is still second only to Tim Booth's.) In the summer of 1991, I bought Midnight Oil's outstanding and unassuming album "Blue Sky Mining". Every song is outstanding.

I haven't listened to Midnight Oil in a while. (I saw them play in concert at UVU in 2002.) The band has broken up, and Peter Garrett has been both an elected politician and a social activist since then. This song, "One Country", from the Blue Sky Mining CD, is especially moving given the present political climate in the U.S. and in certain places in Europe. The song has always been beautiful, but it has an almost gospel-quality now. It's is the antithesis of everything Der Drumpf stands for, as well as the alt-right Mormons and the alt-right in general.

I'll have to learn this song on the guitar and play it in church one day soon. It might even move some to tears and feel the Holy Ghost. https://youtu.be/Mz3HShQkdd4

Crank it up and feel the Spirit! If you watch the video, pay attention to the short solo. The guy is using a Rickenbacker guitar, which was very popular in the 1960s. John Lennon used one for a long time, so did bands like the Byrds, etc. They're renowned for making a "jangly" guitar sound. The Rickenbacker lost favor after the late 1960s, as heavy metal and harder rock 'n' roll became more popular. But, starting with Johnny Marr from The Smiths, the Rickenbacker guitar made a comeback. You can hear its jangly tone all over the Madchester scene and their American counterparts - like Stone Roses, Oasis, Belle and Sebastian, Throwing Muses, Belly, Jesus and Mary Chain (distorted, but it's a Rickenbacker making all that racket), etc.

[_Dr. Shades]

And here is the MDDB thread from Scott Lloyd about The Doink's response to Fluhman:

http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/689 ... -politics/

And if you'd like to skip the middleman, here is The Doink's original response to Fluhman (bypassing the MDDB noise):

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8656 ... elief.html

[_Kishkumen]

Taylor Petrey has written a wonderful op-ed about the great error of Mormons drinking the conservative koolaid for lo these many decades.