One Utah

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, [...]

When I was growing up, a popular theme in church was the fact that we were a ‘peculiar people’, indicating a fulfillment of prophecy. What a lot of Mormons are not aware of is that Gordon B. Hinckley’s life’s work was to change all that. He understood that if the church seemed peculiar, [...]

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 [...]

Check out Andrew Sullivan’s blog for a rundown of today’s nationwide rallies in support of same-sex marriage and civil rights for all– including Salt Lake City. Sullivan writes:

When every gay person and every friend or family member of a gay person really, truly believes that the status quo is unacceptable, we will win. Today, [...]

Redistricting is usually a bloodbath in Utah. It leads to horrifically drawn district boundaries that suggest the map-makers are either insane or blindly partisan Republicans (telling the difference is never easy). The gerrymandered outcomes, in all seriousness, are problematic - it’s all about elected officials picking their voters rather than voters picking their [...]

Karl Rove has an opinion article this week in the Wall Street Journal, History Favors Republicans in 2010, in which he laboriously explains how Republicans have an advantage in 2010. Here’s a bit:
Redistricting and reapportionment could help tilt the playing field back to the GOP in Congress and the race for the White House [...]

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 [...]

I’ve often wondered if the author of the song which introduces the anti-democracy Sean Hannity radio show every day was happy with that arrangement. The message of the uplifting verse that so many Americans hear every day seems so antithetical to the hypocrisy and lies that drive Hannity’s multi-million dollar soapbox.
I still don’t know if [...]

As expected (and predicted by many) the bobbleheads on the networks are yammering about the need for “bipartisanship”. I keep hearing from my various Republican friends and acquaintances similar requests usually followed by a statement along the lines of “I’m tired of all this partisan bickering.”
That’s rich from the party that impeached Clinton, that [...]

As a teen and young adult in the 60s and 70s, I was disillusioned with the American government particularly because of the Vietnam war and the administrations of Nixon and Johnson, with their roughshod treatment of citizens as well as our Ugly American image abroad. I believed that once my generation came into political [...]