One Utah

Smarter people than I (see Schaller, Thomas, and Scher, Bill and Krugman, Paul) have compiled the actual data and shown that most of the Republicans successes since 1980 are attributable to the movement of white southern voters from the Democratic to the Republican party. The last 28 years have been, in fact, a drawn [...]

originally wrote this as a response to other comments. But the more consideration I gave it, the more I thought that it might deserve its own space. Many of the notions here are important to the traditional structure and style of American politics, and yet they are being thrown away, ironically by the “traditionalists” or “conservatives.” Take it as you will……

The original discussion began on the first day of something that resembles the social contract, a day lost in the mists of time. The most recent discussion to which I respond began here:

http://oneutah.org/2008/11/18/the-mormon-war-on-gay-people-is-also-a-war-on-eros/

Consider this an open letter to conservative America specifically on the issue of gay rights, but more importantly on the issue of the values and traditions of the nation in general, as illustrated by the example of gay rights.

When it comes to matters affecting glbt people, Andrew Sullivan is usually right.
Today’s tour de force on marriage is dead on. Sullivan argues that opposition to legal same sex marriage is part and parcel of fundamentalism’s long standing, ongoing war against modernity. At the core of religious conservatism is a yearning to turn [...]

Paul Krugman has an essay in his book The Great Unraveling about English food and the problems of the free market. Krugman’s point is simple: England urbanized as methods for storing food leapt forward - canning, bottling, etc. With few options available to them other than mushy peas and tasteless canned fruit, [...]

Most of the progressive blogosphere is unhappy about Lieberman keeping his chairmanship after campaigning for McCain. I’d like to see Lieberman out - but I also know that the Senate is a weird place in which one disgruntled outsized ego can cause no end of trouble (see, Helms, Jesse).
Bill Scher, as usual, [...]

H/t to Kos.
The New York Times produced a map after the election showing which counties voted more Republican and which more Democratic in 2008 compared to 2004. That map showed a swath of red counties in the highland south voting more Republican than four years ago - just about the only counties that did [...]

This is the latest product being flogged by The American Family Association.

Okay, look, I know they can’t possibly mean it the way it looks but seriously, they needed to think this one through. It does unfortunately look like a burning cross. And burning crosses don’t so much have a great history in our [...]

When I was quite young, my parents ran a local café that served our community’s rednecks in the trucking and railroad industry. I was only eight at the time, but people back then talked pretty rough and candidly letting me know in no uncertain terms that the country was “going to hell in a hand [...]

From the Chicago Tribune
Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain’s name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.
“People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid…
Then it got worse.

Exactly as it should be MUST BE! Its time to throw civility out the window. Olbermann has [...]

And integrating the ‘hood’. Boy THAT’s gotta piss off Orrin Hatch.

Somebody needs to warn Obama about Jason Chavetz. That boy is a security risk.

The US is facing an economic Gordian Knot.
Robert Reich describes it:
Wall Street is paralyzed at the moment because the bursting of the housing and other asset bubbles means that lenders are fearful that creditors won’t repay loans. But even if credit were flowing, those loans wouldn’t save jobs. Businesses want to borrow now only to [...]