One Utah

You know the saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me (I think that’s right. I’m lousy at math). If this was five years ago, Utahns would’ve been more ready to accept Divine Strake. Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and the Republican-ruled Congress would’ve made sure it happened. But time and [...]

While I always remain skeptical of sudden government announcements, I am overjoyed over today’s announcement (below). I and dozens of others have been working hard on this for about a year now.
Cancellation of Proposed Divine Strake Experiment
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has decided to cancel the proposed Divine Strake experiment. ?I have become convinced [...]

Today, Vince Horiuchi, TV critic for the Salt Lake Tribune, took local TV station KTVX to task for its strong editorial position against Divine Strake, a non-nuclear weapons test proposed for the Nevada Test Site. While non-nuclear, it poses significant health threats to people living downwind, and it presages the beginning of a new nuclear [...]

BE SURE TO WATCH THIS STUNNING VIDEO and account of delivery of email comments that overloaded the government’s computers so channel 4 decided to deliver them. Watch and listen to the resistance they confronted and the statement by channel 4. Channel 4, KUDOS!!
THIS IS PERHAPS THE GUTSIEST, MOST DARING, BRAVE THING ANYONE IN THE [...]

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”- Edmund Burke
As I sat bored through the Super Bowl, I wondered why it didn’t seem to to matter. When I was younger and a huge Bears fan living in Chicago, it all seemed so important. Now, I didn’t [...]

Testimony before the Divine Strake hearings at the Utah State Capitol Jan 24, 2007
If you were to awake tomorrow, with no previous knowledge of the event, to learn that someone had detonated 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil directly under an area of the West where tons of radioactive debris still scars the [...]

Unlocking the secrets of the Zeitgeist is hazardous for the untrained humanist. But this one was easy. The controversial experiment on “gay sheep” is a firestorm that, of course, was started by bloggers and was eventually picked up by corporate media. As NYT discovered, the reality of the story is less interesting than what it [...]