One Utah

Last night, KUED re-aired the locally produced documentary Outside, about the lives and experiences of four homeless youth in Salt Lake City.
I know there are homeless people in Salt Lake City. I know there are homeless teens and young adults in Salt Lake City. I’ve advocated for better services for the homeless. [...]

They’ll be going back underground soon.
I found this while looking for a better version of the Artur Davis/McClellan session.
Watch the white racist squirm like a stuck pig.

Update: Plunderbund who broke this story is reporting that the manufacturer is refusing to make the sockpuppet.
Once again, pretty much everyone on the planet has been reminded that unrestrained racism is alive and well in Utah.
Introducing the Sock MonkeyObama. Brought to you by:
David J. Lawson and Elizabeth A. Lawson
8821 South Deep Creek Drive
West [...]

shit like this happens:
In September of 2007, the principal at Hollis F. Price Middle College High told teachers she wanted the names of all student couples, “hetero and homo,” because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in public displays of affection.
The principal heard about them through another student, then wrote [...]

Some basics:  Some individual parents, a Chrisitian indoctrination center school and the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) filed a lawsuit alleging that the University of California was discriminating against them; UC has said that some of the courses these groups teach do not meet their requirements.  Among those courses are courses on creationism pretending [...]

I’ve added some text to expand on some ideas.  I’ve noted them.
The brouhaha in American Fork holds a morbid fascination for me. The American Fork PTSA invited a group to address their meeting and talk about the dangers of pornography. What they discovered they were going to get was a denunciation of glbt persons dressed [...]

I’m having an extremely difficult time posting today. I just can’t seem to think clearly. I don’t know what’s up with that.
I’m avoiding the gym tonight. I know it’s lame excuse but it’s always so crowded on Mondays it’s almost not worth going. I know it’s a lame excuse.
Anyway, [...]

I thought it was odd that Ken B posted a comment about global warming in response to my post about the systemic dishonesty of creationists. I wonder if maybe there are connections between the dishonest means and methods of creationists and those who deny global warming. I haven’t really looked much at the methods used [...]

I’m going to be laughing about this for decades. In fact, I may be amused about this the rest of my life and if I’m reincarnated, I may be born amused about it in my next life.
The story from PZ Myers (h/t Feministe).
I went to attend a screening of the creationist propaganda movie, Expelled, [...]

I was walking along on Murray-Holladay road just above Holladay Blvd. and my jaw dropped when I saw this billboard. Am I overreacting, or is this just outright racism peddled by the justice department? This is put out by an organization called “Project Safe Neighborhoods“, which is funded with billions of taxpayer dollars.

You write something, post it, a few days later you move on and you basically forget it.  Then someday, often months later, someone brings it up again - sometimes even the person about whom you wrote.  It’s my favorite weird and wild thing about the internet.
Case in point, this morning while checking comments, I found a [...]

With time to enshrine their bigotry in law running short, our state legislators are getting worried they won’t be able to tell gay folks “You suck.”
SB299 (sub one or two I don’t remember which) is trundling its way through the state legislature. In what looks like a straight party line vote, the [...]