One Utah

The people of Utah also picked this presentation as the the program they would most like to be rebroadcast last Friday night on PBS. No, it has absolutely nothing to do with O. J. or “The Simpsons”. It has more to do with who we are and what we believe.
This time it wasn’t a teacher [...]

The cultural divide seems rarely more evident than in the news story about the middle school in Maine that is going to offer birth control to its students.
Conservatives have lost their collective minds.
Everyone else sees it as a non-issue.
Even some the most active sexuality bloggers - the good folks at Sex in the Public Square - [...]

Author Madeleine L’Engle died last week - I read about it but couldn’t bring myself to blog about it.
From her obit.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial gift may be made to Crosswicks Foundation, Ltd, 924 West End Ave, apt 95, New York, New York, 10025. This is just an option, and we encourage you to [...]

From this week’s schadenfreude files comes the long suppressed news of Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s (Republican, of course) arrest for lewd behavior in an airport bathroom in Minnesota. He entered a guilty plea.
The residents of the blogistan are, unsurprisingly, all over this story. Craig (R - His Own Private Idaho) is yet [...]

As someone who teaches comprehensive sexuality education, I particularly enjoyed Jane Jimenez’s recent delusional stream of consciousness everything has gone to hell op-ed.
Jimenez (who for reasons that are obvious only to wingnuts) has a national platform from which to speak, blathers that
Abstinence education shines a light on the problems inherent in promoting sex as entertainment without [...]

I think that concerns over myspace and online sexual predators have all the hallmarks of a moral panic.
A moral panic is a reaction by a group of people based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace [...]

Sorry for screaming, but since Lt. Governor Gary continues to lie and say that he couldn’t stop the only statewide deployment in America of Diebold voting machines that have been proven to be hackable by one of our own citizens, (can you name him?), and costing us largely untold, (by Utah’s media), millions of dollars, [...]

May 9, 2007
Mayor Anderson:
I can not tell you how proud I am of your solitary stand against the administration. I don’t know why, but I just happened to turn on the radio when the Doug Wright show was announcing that the tickets were going on sale for the debate between yourself and Sean Hannity. I [...]

I have ceased to wonder who our National media are actually working for anymore folks. Newsweek has long appeared to me as a premier apologist for the Iraq War and Bush Administration policies. Someone bought me a subscription to the News magazine about 3 years ago. I could have just as well done without it. [...]

Here’s simple proof. Yesterday, The Washington Post published a Reuters story that said,
Bleichwehl said troops, facing scattered resistance, discovered a factory that produced “explosively formed penetrators” (EFPs), a particularly deadly type of explosive that can destroy a main battle tank and several weapons caches.
Here’s a screen shot (h/t Eschaton)

As we [...]

What can I possibly say about our privileged and packed corporate over class we’ve all felt but never seen the likes of. I have no proof of malfeasances or leading actors for this play, nor can I find a hero for the cause of breaking up this monopoly of our time.
Where is our Huey [...]

Ask the average citizen or child if they know that lying to ruin someone’s reputation is wrong and could get you in big trouble and they’ll probably say yes. However, a jury of their peers says that didn’t stop some ostensibly intelligent and honorable adults, including several from Utah, from doing exactly that. Now, after [...]