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Mailbag: Your idea for a coffee substitute cafe in Provo has already been tried. Latter Day Cafe opened in Provo south of BYU in 2021 making drinks out of the Copomo seed, which they promoted as better than coffee. You could caffeinate your drink on a scale of 1 to 4. 1 was equivalent to Mountain Dew, 2 coffee cup, 3 five hour energy, and 4 Bang. 

 Thought Provoker:

In an interview this week, Mitt Romney talked about why he would not run for president on a third party label. Basically, he said that a third party candidate could never win because they wouldn’t be able to get to 270 electoral college votes. The constitution says that if no candidate gets 270 electoral college votes, the US House decides the winner. Since the House would never vote for a third party candidate, it is a waste of time to even think about running as a third party candidate. What should people who want someone other than Trump or Biden do in the upcoming election?

 Is cancel culture simply a new form of boycott, an effective tactic used to effect change, or is it a slippery slope and leads to intolerance and democratic societies as people systematically exclude anyone who disagrees with their views? Is it the free market at work, or is it democratized bullying and intolerance?

“More millennial Mormons are choosing a middle way – neither all-in nor all-out of the faith.”  How does the latter-day lens inform this approach?

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/09/29/more-millennial-mormons/
https://religioninpublic.blog/2018/09/26/the-two-kinds-of-american-latter-day-saints-a-mormon-typology/ 

 The Big Question.

This is the last one from the Coppins interview. Coppins talks about how Mitt Romney loved to talk about shows he was regularly watching. He specifically mentions that Romney loved the shows “Better Call Saul”, “Ted Lasso”, and “Game of Thrones”. Each of those shows is rated TV-MA. I don’t want to make this about judging other people and their choices, but how should we decide what media to consume? Each of those programs crosses a line that some people have about their media. Is the proper approach to have a line that you will not cross, or is there some other way to decide?