One Utah

With Mark Begich having a lead now of over 3,000 votes, AP is calling the race over. Only 2,500 votes remain to be counted, making the difference too great to overcome. Begich will go to the senate from Alaska. I suppose this dashes any hopes Sarah Palin had of becoming the next [...]

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, [...]

Serious problems with vote rigging in Alaska in 2004 (which favored Republicans) were never resolved. This time around the fix is in and puts the smell of rotten fish to shame. I understand Alaska had the largest delta in the country between pre-election polls and final results - as much as 10% in [...]

It would be a good political move too.
The ACLU, along with others, filed a lawsuit in the California Supreme Court that will crush Prop. 8 and once and for all shut down the hateful social engineering that has so embarrassed loving Mormons.  (complaint here)
The press release reminds everyone that California Attorney General Jerry Brown honor [...]

Great article by Frank Rich:
Dawn also brought the realization that we were at last emerging from an abusive relationship with our country’s 21st-century leaders. The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place — in cities all over America.

On Chris Matthews’ Hardball today, he lists the year’s biggest losers after this campaign. I, for one, am glad to see that the Rovian method of gaming politics has been exposed and has failed miserably in the end. All that’s left now is to require him to testify before congress (and maybe the [...]

www.change.gov
The official website of President-Elect Barack Obama for his transition to the White House, www.change.gov, went online on Thursday inviting all Americans to offer their ideas for the future of the country. People can also apply for jobs via the website or read about the president-elect’s agenda and priorities for his administration.

There is no Bushie more loyal than Barney. He’s been there at the President’s side for the whole eight years. According to Bob Woodward, in 2005 President Bush had key Republicans up to the White House to talk about the Iraq occupation, and said “I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney [...]

It’s not the filibuster-proof 60, but it’s awfully close.
Associated Press:
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democrat Jeff Merkley has ousted Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, a victory once considered unlikely against an incumbent who had highlighted his efforts to work across the aisle in hopes of surviving a wave of anti-GOP sentiment.
Smith’s loss — the first for an [...]

At first, I was going to simply ignore this blog as just another outlet for right-wing crackpots to post their sicko, truth distorting, America-hating whacko rhetoric while yucking it up and patting each other on the back (and swilling warm, stale beer).

The more I thought about it, however, the more I felt that [...]

From XKCD: Click the graphic to enlarge. Click on the link to go to the web site where you can view the ALT text by mousing over the cartoon. Cute.

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 [...]