Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!

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Happy Bastille Day! Last year on this day, █████ and I were in Paris watching marching bands on the street and fighter jets overhead trailing tricolor smoke. You know, I could do with a nice Armagnac outside a bistro in the 7ème Arondissement about now.

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William Shunn
William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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Mardi gras cake with baby Jesus
Mormonism

Happy Birthday, Mormon Jesus!

You may not be aware of it, but today is the day that many Mormons believe to be Jesus Christ's actual birthday. (Happy birthday, Mormon Jesus!) It also happens to be the 186th birthday of the LDS Church, which was officially founded on April 6, 1830. I'

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Wired.com's Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast
Podcasts

My Interview on WIRED.com's "Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" Podcast

Though it doesn't officially come out until tomorrow, my interview with the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast is now live and available through iTunes and elsewhere. I really enjoyed doing this interview. Host David Barr Kirtley asked great questions, and we chatted not just about

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The Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith's First Novel
Memoir

The Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith's First Novel

This essay is excerpted from The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary, available everywhere November 10, 2015. WARNING: This essay contains graphic descriptions of primitive surgery that some readers may find disturbing. In January 1994, when I was 26 years old, I sat down in my bare, cold room

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History

Joseph Smith's "Capital" Idea

As I was working through the very final set of revisions on The Accidental Terrorist, I had to hunt down the original source of a well-known Joseph Smith quote on the topic of the accuracy of the Bible. I found what I was looking for in his History of the

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