One Utah

Ed Brayton has a great post The Athiests are Coming, the Atheists are Coming! up at his place. In it, he points out a tendency among at least some conservative Christian writes for:
vaguely hysterical writings that get his credulous followers without ever actually identifying what they should feel threatened by, as brilliantly displayed in [...]

The history of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is a sordid tale of bigotry, ignorance and fear-mongering. The Clinton Administration tried to do the right thing and got blown out of the water. Congress - stampeded by a bunch of raving homo-bigots - decided to set military policy. DADT was the result.
DADT has [...]

The Los Angeles Times recently had an insightful article about what $200-a-barrel oil and $7 a gallon gasoline would do to America.

With every penny hike in the price of gas costing American consumers about $1 billion a year, sharply higher pump prices would lead to “significant bankruptcies and store closings,” said Scott Hoyt, director of [...]

I’m not in the habit of quoting at length from other blogs, but I haven’t got the ability to say this any better. The following is straight from CTuttle on the excellent site Main and Central.
“I’d like to indulge in a little exercise, let’s take a gander at several news reports on the same [...]

In Utah, sexuality seems to forever be waiting to emerge from the shadows into a dark and torrential scandal. In 2008 we have had at least three brouhahas - the Blue Boutique and the teacher in Herriman and the nude cell phone pictures of teens in Davis County. And some absurd public pronouncements [...]

It seems that the good folks of Herriman have their panties in a bunch over a teacher answering students’ questions. The teacher is apparently facing all kinds of consequences and Carl Wimmer (Republican of course) is drafting a bill to have criminal consequences for teachers who don’t lie to their students about sexuality as [...]

The Bush administration’s myriad failures are connected to long term trends in social organizing and the loss of social capital.  In adopting a “go it alone” policy, the Bush administration and its neo-con theorists have taken an ideology of radical individualism and applied it at the level of national policy.
Radical individualism -beloved by Americans - holds that a person acting [...]

Last week, I saw this post  Leading America Into the Wildnerness, at Kos:
Whether it’s finance or science, health care or education, America isn’t leading the way — it’s not even pointing the direction.  Instead, we’re on the sidelines, trying to squeeze the grip of our still considerable military leadership ever tighter, only to have more [...]

Some months back, Hugo had a post in the great feminist blogswarm about hair. The basic situation: a group of feminist bloggers found themselves in a complex debate about the relative merits of removing or keeping one’s body hair.
Hugo posted on the debate then added his own interesting take here. [...]

The Texas Polygamist raid is a PR disaster for the Mormon church.
Last night, Larry King did his best impression of a journalist and interviewed people who have left polygamy - all with the LDS Salt Lake temple in the background.  The repetition of LDS/Mormon and polygamist/polygamy is undoing decades of work by mainstream Mormons to present [...]

I’ve blogged about suffering from migraines.  At the time I described a migraine as not unlike having a short term mental illness.  The pain of a migraine can be debilitating, pain so intense at times that I’ve rubbed my temples so hard I’ve bruised them.  Migraine pain interferes with your ability to see, to think, [...]

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