News and Notes--August 4

My site just passed the 10,000 hit mark--thanks to all. I'd be interested in seeing the 'unique vistor' total (since a large number of those 10,000 visitors are me) but Typepad doesn't keep track of them...

Some other interesting/noteworthy links for this week:

First, leeches and now medicinal maggots! Let's hear it for ALL of God's creations!

IntellecXhibitonist discusses the new angle in the latest court case for legalized polygamy. I stand by my statement that polygamy won't be coming back to the Church any time soon, no matter what the law allows...but this court case should be interesting.

Best and worst commercials discussed here
My favorite commercial (which no one seems to remember) is the Lee Jeans 'Wanna borrow some soap?' one from the late 80's. Even funnier was that it had nothing whatsoever to do with jeans. Honorable mentions: Bud Light's "Paper vs. Plastic" one from a few years ago, and an obscure one where it parodied other product commercials by having a cartoon sun pop out of the front of a cereal box and start talking to a mom and her kids...and they immediately start screaming and running away like it was a monster in a horror movie. (I can't even remember what product the commercial was actually for...)

Okay...why did this take three years?

The controversy that won't end: Like Orson Scott Card before him, Dr. Robert Millet of BYU is continually defending his decision to see "The Passion". My former stake president, Dr. Millet is still one of my favorite people...although I'd still like him to explain why "The Passion..." is okay to see despite the heavy violence while any other movie rated R for heavy violence would not be...