One Utah

I am so pleased with my response to Ken on McCain, I thought I would top post it if only to shake things up around here.
What you are seeing Ken is Republican Buyer’s Remorse for Bush. You see, Bush — being the worst fuckup in the history of America — has virtually ended any chance [...]

Via Feministing, I see a great article  by Sara Robinson about the changing dynamics of abortion. 
The gist of the article concerns the way in which medical termination of unwanted pregnancies (i.e. RU-486) is changing the way in which women receive and experience abortions, and is changing the locus of control over reproductive freedom - namely moving [...]

The conversation taking place over at the D-news is so illustrative of everything that’s wrong with Utah’s public and political culture I can’t let it go.  There’s a sense of entitlement among the Mormons that their morals are clearly correct and should unquestionably be reinforced by the laws and everyone who differs is a miscreant.  [...]

A group of coworkers and I were mocking George W. Bush.  Another coworker tried to defend him saying “Things are better than under Clinton!  He’s doing better than Clinton.”  Let’s just say that there was a level of jeering I haven’t heard for a long time. 
People started shouting out a list of things that were worse under [...]

No. This has been another edition of easy answers to simple questions.

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 [...]

Yesterday at the PPAC Liberty Luncheon, the keynote speaker said this is the question to ask anytime we’re discussing reproductive freedoms:
Under what circumstances would you force a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term?

The folks at Trojan Condoms have a new commercial out - view it here - that has garnered responses that highlight America’s deep ambivalence about sexuality.
At the Trojan Evolve website, they include a series of stats that back up the assertion that America is not a sexually healthy nation - rates of unintended pregnancy, STI [...]

The best lies contain a bit of truth.
In all the years I’ve carried my “Support The Troops - Impeach Bush” sign, I only felt like I was doing the wrong thing once. I was downtown in front of the Salt Palace over three years ago, when a young man and his friend drove by yelling [...]

Sunday, the Tribune ran this article about declining support in Utah for the Iraq war.  Highlights:
Jeffrey Jones wasn’t surprised to see that a two-year compilation of Gallup polls showed American Mormons, more than any other religious group over that period, believed the United States was right to invade Iraq.
A January poll by The Salt Lake [...]

Molly Ivins called the Texas the national laboratory for bad government - and with their plan to pay women $500 for their babies, they’re still leading the pack of incredibly bad state government.  Utah and North Dakota, however, are rapidly and rabidly competing to take the title of laboratory for bad government.
Utah - as you [...]