Peculiar People

Back when members of the Church started referring to ourselves as a "peculiar people," the rest of the population was a lot more homogenized than it is now. Now days, anytime I go anywhere in public I wonder if we as a people have a right to call ourselves peculiar anymore.

Santa at Tithing Settlement

How does Santa fund his operation? He has a staff of thousands (if not tens of thousands) of elves for which he has to provide substance and lodging, he produces billions of toys a year which he has to obtain the base materials for and then store somewhere, and he has to generate enough energy to travel at near light speed for one night a year to deliver all those toys.

Anyway, these are the types of questions that lead to a comic like today's. Assuming Santa is telling the truth, and we have no reason to doubt him, his only income appears to be the milk and cookies he receives at Christmas. Making tithing settlement in the North Pole First Ward an awkward event.

On the Campaign Trail

It's my understanding that the Church no longer uses the term "splits," but that the vernacular is now "exchanges." Can anyone verify this?