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The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007
9. You
Charges: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 [...]

Ever wonder what kind of people still support the illegal occupation of Iraq and why?
Excepting, of course, the obvious shills for the military industrial complex, there remain a few naive folk who think themselves patriots and who can’t seem to figure out they have been lied to, betrayed, and otherwise taken for fools.
Despite the fact [...]

In this video, Borat gets the Kansas City Council have a ten-minute moment of silence for a fictional event. No one questiosn him. They just stand there for ten minutes. CITY COUNCIL people in a major American city.
We’re screwed.

Just a few years ago, America was revered for it’s constitution. The Republicans and weak Democrats have served to prove that we were overly prideful of our heritage. If the checks and balances we have been bragging about for hundreds of years could be weakened by the greedy in just a couple of decades and [...]

I enjoy reading and writing for One Utah. I don’t have as much time to do it as I’d like because I’m usually juggling several projects at my studio, maintaining my own blog and website and developing my business in the Salt Lake area one year after moving here. You encounter many different people (including [...]

I’m going to admit up front I don’t watch Glenn Beck, the professional bigot, on CNN Headline News. I’m in good company, though– a lot of people don’t. His twice-nightly show’s ratings lag behind the competition on Fox News, CNN and MSBNC.
If you need an antidote to the recent Salt Lake Tribune [...]

An article in the LA Times has me thinking about fear and danger (hat tip to Washington Monthly). 
LJ Williamson muses on the irrational, ravening fear that many parents have of sexual predators.  She writes:
Although statistics show that rates of child abduction and sexual abuse have marched steadily downward since the early 1990s, fear of these crimes [...]

OK- consider this a speed bump on the road to Utopia. I’m against climbing Mount Everest. All the hype, excitement and glory heaped by local corporate media upon the Sherpas who now live in Utah as they prepare to “conquer” Everest yet again- one of them for the 17th time- show how ridiculous, destructive and [...]

Psychology and science made their debut as American weapons of war in 1916. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat and avowed racial terrorist launched, “the Committee on Public Information.” That same year, President Wilson welcomed a parade of several hundred thousand hooded white men at the White House. The original masters of Amerikan terror held [...]

The excerpt below came from an article entitled “The Art of War” written in November of 2003.
Guess who wrote it?

Hint I: Bush gave this guy’s father the medal of honor last year.
Hint II: Bush hired this guy design to architect the ‘SURGE’.
Hint III: Cpl M reads it ‘before and after’…you know.

Give up? …Freddy Kruger Kragen
The [...]

OK, I’m a sucker for a good song title– they just want the money, they already have enough lawyers and guns. The most powerful lobbying group in Washington, the National Rifle Association (NRA), is sounding the alarm. They are running out of money and seek big donors, before it’s too late. The [...]

Wednesday afternoon, I felt a familiar, deep, disconcerting pain behind my eyes. Acting quickly, I took a dose of Imitrex. Within a short time, the pain had lost its edge and become a dull, pressure-pain. After exercise and a hot shower, I went to bed - still with that pressure-pain but hopeful [...]