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Thursday’s post “Torture Pros Visit SLC this Sunday” ignited an e-mail exchange which I have re-created here as between Cliff and MightyMan to protect his identity.
Mighty Man also copied me on one of those mean provocative e-mails (posted below) which travel the right-hand lane on the highway of religious extremist.
I don’t know how to respond [...]

What could be worse than shooting a “friend” or “aquaintance” in the face?
I didn’t check the Deseret News. No time today. Maybe someone can check and let us know.
Update: Oops. And this one too! Thanks BlueUtah.

“What is so deceptive about the state of mind of the members of a society is the ‘consensual validation’ of their concepts. It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation [...]

A friend of mine, beloved for his eccentric and often passionate however informed views, passed through SLC this week. And on his way south this morning he listened to Doug Wright on KSL do a listener poll (mayoral) between Rocky and city council person Dave Buhler and wrote about it on his blog.

His “take” on [...]

Ken, I’ll save a seat for you!
Mayor Rocky Anderson will moderate a panel discussion including experienced government interrogators at The library on Sunday following a screening of Frontlines, “The Torture Question”.
Details in the press release.

Impatient with efforts to close the courts to litigants, the Administration literally fired the first shot in its groundbreaking “No Lawyer Left Standing” initiative.

Vice-President Cheney, hunting on a private lawyer ranch near Kingsville, Texas, bagged an impressive buck (Harry Whittington, UT Law ‘50). Under the new program, hunters may take one white shoe in-house [...]

As Bush’s ship continues to sink, we find ourselves right about in the middle of the final phase as predicted in George Lakoff’s book, “Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant.”
Back when Lakoff wrote his “how-to” for democrats to compete with the Bush-republican homerun hitting technique for framing the debate and controlling message, everyone was still [...]

In an apparent accident, the most powerful vice president in the history of The United State of America shot another millionaire.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.

Did you see the Sunday morning news shows?
George Will said “Everytime I hear the administration’s legal rational for wiretapping I get a headache”
I thought Howard Dean laid out the democratic platform, again, quite well, including something along the lines of being strong on national defense by not liying to our soldiers about the reasons for [...]

I started out this morning thinking about how secretly hopeful Senator Buttars must be that his doctors’ education wasn’t dictated by him and why we have to repeat another painful “Scopes Monkey” cycle.
Then as I was scraping eggs from the frying pan into the sink I began ruminating, as I frequently do, about how in [...]

A friend just sent me a link to the KSL article about Rocky getting another award for standing up for equality.
I’m sad because the comments on the KSL blog are just SO mean and visceral.
Some of the more tempered comments are suggesting that the homophobes are LDS.
I don’t believe it. I am not LDS. [...]

Rocky’s recent heretical executive order providing domestic-partner benefits (which happen to include gay couples) did nothing more than to make city employment benefits competitive with most of the fortune 500 companies.
The City Council ordinance passed last night was nothing but a waste of energy to light and heat the meeting room. That’s probably why Rocky [...]