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  • Thanks for the Memories

    How good is your memory? I seem to be blessed with a particularly faulty memory, including a shockingly poor ability to remember if I've seen a face before.

    Do you remember the famous Hillary Clinton whopper where she talked about her mortal peril in Bosina? She said, “I' [...]
    Posted: October 11, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
  • A Few Nobel Suggestions

    The game is over for this year's Nobel Peace Prize competition. President Obama beat out contenders like Piedad Cordoba (Colombian senator that has helped free hostages), Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (Jordanian professor who has fostered interfaith tolerance and dialog), Sima Samar (Afghan human rights activists), and 202 other nominees.[...]
    Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
  • On Hypocrisy

    I made a comment elsewhere quite a while ago that I wanted to capture here so I could find it more easily. It is something that has been bothering me for a while: charges of hypocrisy against conservative politicians who have affairs.

    ===

    There is a more subtle point to [...]

    Posted: September 23, 2009, 11:58am EDT
  • Coarse Politics

    Tony Blankley offered quite a zinger on the most recent episode of "Left, Right & Center." Obviously, he went a bit over the top, but the point was dead on. The subject was the "coarsening of our politics."
    Initially, the Democrats called the demonstrators who opposed health care “demonstrators”, [...]
    Posted: September 22, 2009, 5:02pm EDT
  • Second Guessing the Doctor

    It is challenging as a parent to get medical advice from doctors that you don't believe you need to follow. Not that you believe it would be harmful to follow the advice, just wasteful. How can you avoid feeling like a terrible parent if you choose to ignore the physician's [...]
    Posted: September 21, 2009, 6:34pm EDT
  • That Cost Me What?

    I'm in the IT field, so I can readily appreciate that the value I provide is not only in pressing buttons on a keyboard, a task which any monkey can do, but in knowing which buttons to press and when. Likewise, I expect to pay a neurosurgeon a lot of' [...]
    Posted: September 07, 2009, 11:30am EDT
  • Let's Start With the Price

    Price is a market signal that should reflect, over time, all the cumulative cost of the components of a product or service. As we ponder the health care system, it seems like the first thing we need to do is break down the prices we are paying to understand why [...]
    Posted: September 03, 2009, 6:50pm EDT
  • Speechless (well, not quite)

    Governor Mark Sanford (R, S.C.) has admitted to an extramarital affair. And he disappeared--with apparently no one knowing where he was, and with no way to contact him, either by his family (he has four young boys with his wife) or by his staff--for five or six days. Over [...]
    Posted: June 24, 2009, 2:31pm EDT
  • Flu Frustrations

    I am seriously perplexed by the swine flu--not the flu itself, but information about the flu. You all know information is my bread-and-butter; I thrive on it. (Okay, yes, I thrive on knowing things other people don't know, in particular. It helps me feel superior and all that. Sad but' [...]
    Posted: May 05, 2009, 2:42pm EDT
  • Notre Dame Should Welcome Obama

    BYU took a lot of flack for inviting Vice President Cheney to speak at a commencement. I strongly disagreed with those who protested Mr. Cheney's appearance. Whether you agree or disagree with him personally, as a holder of high political office, he represents not only himself, but our country.' [...]
    Posted: April 22, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
  • Giving Helps the Giver

    I listened to a terrific forum address at BYU by Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute. His intriguing thesis is this: people who give of their means to others end up receiving more than they give. In other words, being philanthropic leads to being more wealthy rather than [...]
    Posted: April 01, 2009, 10:26pm EDT
  • Moral Foil: Stem Cell and Torture

    I recently posted one scientist's defense of the Bush administration's record on science. Will Saletan over at Slate just provided another very thought-provoking piece to the moral puzzle that surrounds one of the hottest scientific debates of the Bush presidency: embryonic stem cell research.

    Though Saletan incorrectly describes [...]
    Posted: March 12, 2009, 10:08pm EDT
  • Bush Science Record Defended by Liberal Physicist

    Neil deGrasse Tyson, who describes himself as "left of liberal," takes some questions from the audience during an event while he talks about his book The Pluto Files. The questioner referred to the Bush administration as "the dark years" and asked for some comment from Dr. Tyson about President Obama's' [...]
    Posted: March 08, 2009, 7:28pm EDT
  • Elementary Education Acceditation

    Universities go through a rigorous process of accreditation each decade. BYU is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities which is one of the major regional accreditation bodies. This body, while recognized by the government, is not a government agency.

    I wonder if a similar [...]
    Posted: February 27, 2009, 5:54pm EST
  • National Service

    There has been talk of a national service program in the Obama administration. I'm very intrigued by the idea. I think of it as a "time tax." Obama's proposal is actually fairly mild. What might a much more expansive requirement look like? Here is the proposal that I thought [...]
    Posted: December 05, 2008, 8:00am EST
  • Debt Horizons

    Our national government approves budgets year after year with huge deficits. It looks like the next few years will be no exception. Perhaps we should consider a proposal that deficit spending never be permitted without simultaneously proposing partial budgets 10 years into the future which show what programs will be [...]
    Posted: December 03, 2008, 1:57pm EST
  • October surprise?

    Report: Iranian president has fallen ill
    NKorea's Kim Jong Il sick...

    That George Bush! He's going to wipe out the axis of evil one way or another. Maybe he sent them "special" fruit baskets as a going-away present. We'll see if the next headline is "Sources: Osama'" [...]
    Posted: October 28, 2008, 10:05am EDT
  • Part II: Chaffetz vs. Spencer, Q&A

    I was lucky enough to attend the blogger-only debate between Jason Chaffetz (R) and Bennion Spencer (D), held at the Sutherland Institute on Tuesday morning. I've broken my posts on this event into two parts--my general impressions and thoughts for the first post, and specific questions and answers' [...]
    Posted: September 11, 2008, 7:55pm EDT
  • Part I: Chaffetz vs. Spencer, Impressions

    I was lucky enough to attend the blogger-only debate between Jason Chaffetz (R) and Bennion Spencer (D), held at the Sutherland Institute on Tuesday morning. (I apologize for the delay in getting this posted; my excuse is a sudden, crippling bout of the flu.) I've broken my posts on' [...]
    Posted: September 11, 2008, 3:35pm EDT
  • Let's go fly a kite...

    Just a quick note...This afternoon my three kids and I went to Spanish Fork's 1st Annual Sky Spectacular (or, as my four-year-old calls it, the Kite Festival). (If I was more on top of things, I would have cute pictures to show. Alas, I forgot to take my camera.)' [...]
    Posted: September 05, 2008, 9:26pm EDT
  • Glass Ceilings

    I just read something that...well, ticked me off. Don't ask me why this of all things set me off, but it did:It's[the Palin VP pick] a cornucopia of paradox: Her candidacy is somehow supposed to be a glass-ceiling-shattering inspiration, even though she actively opposes feminist causes like equal pay [...]
    Posted: September 01, 2008, 1:16pm EDT
  • Governor Sarah Palin

    Talk about getting perspective in unusual ways. Who would have thought that the Republican vice-presidential pick would help me understand of some of the Barack Obama phenomenon?

    I've never been able to identify very closely with the personal histories of presidential candidates. I may agree or disagree with their' [...]
    Posted: August 29, 2008, 9:43am EDT
  • What an awful place to live...

    NPR had a portion of "Talk of the Nation" yesterday devoted to callers impressions of the Democratic National Convention. Although I couldn't call in (I didn't listen to it until last night), I thought of what I might say. (Please bear in mind that I (along with most of the [...]
    Posted: August 28, 2008, 8:17pm EDT
  • Curse of Knowledge

    In their book, Made To Stick, Chip and Dan Heath discuss the "curse of knowledge." We have a hard time explaining things to people if we know too much about the subject. Their example is a tapping game. Try to tap the rhythm of a popular song and see if [...]
    Posted: August 19, 2008, 9:23pm EDT
  • Obama Implictly Defends President Bush's Faith

    President Bush has taken a lot of heat in some quarters for his comments that he continually prayed that he would be doing God's will. Ranters complained that Bush was trying to lead a theocracy.

    Candidate Obama gave an interview to Newsweek where he discussed his faith. When' [...]
    Posted: July 17, 2008, 7:03pm EDT
  • Vitriolic Partisanship Forbidden for Obama Supporters

    It occurred to me today that Obama supporters are in a unique situation. They are supporting a candidate who promises to change the tone in Washington. He promises to bridge the partisan divide. Presumably, they support him because of this view, rather than in spite of it.

    If he [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2008, 11:18pm EDT
  • Poll Giddy

    I always feel so cool when I get called to participate in an opinion poll. There is something so satisfying about a total stranger calling you and asking you about things that you're actually conversant with; as opposed to people asking me sports questions which leave me clueless.

    I' [...]
    Posted: June 18, 2008, 7:34pm EDT
  • The Gore Effect

    I noticed the weather report for early tomorrow morning, June 12: A frost advisory remains in effect from 3 am to 8 am MDT Thursday. This advisory is for the Cache Valley... southern Wasatch front... western Uinta Basin... west central and southwest Utah... and the Sanpete and Sevier valleys...
    (from [...]
    Posted: June 12, 2008, 10:52pm EDT
  • Chris Cannon and NOPEC

    NOPEC (H.R. 6074), a bill passed by the US House on May 21, 2008, is essentially an attempt to sue OPEC for operating a cartel or monopoly. (Official summary: To amend the Sherman Act to make oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal and for other purposes.) It passed 324 [...]
    Posted: May 25, 2008, 8:55pm EDT
  • Using 9/11 (Erronously) to Denote Disaster

    On NPR's All Things Considered broadcast on May 19th, Robert Siegel and Melissa Block report on the one-week anniversary of the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Sichuan province in China. With alarms and sirens to mark the time, China is starting three days of mourning of the tragic loss' [...]
    Posted: May 20, 2008, 8:22am EDT
  • Rep. Chris Cannon, Jason Chaffetz, and Fiscal Responsibility

    In my previous post, I mentioned my desire for a more fiscally responsible federal government. Yesterday I was contacted by representatives from Rep. Cannon's and Mr. Chaffetz's organizations. Here are their responses (posted with permission):

    From Fred Piccolo, Rep. Cannon's communications director:
    I read your post on Hot Blava' [...]
    Posted: March 25, 2008, 10:46am EDT
  • Politics--local and VERY local

    As Tuesday, March 25th is the date for precinct caucuses here in Utah, I've been reading up on some of our local races. We've actually got quite a bit going on this year, with primary challengers in our house district race (66), our senate district race (13), and our federal [...]
    Posted: March 24, 2008, 10:09pm EDT
  • Rules Are Rules

    The Democrats are in a quandary this year. Back in 2000 during the Florida recount debacle, they were arguing that rules weren't really that important. Republicans argued that the rules for vote counting had been set and that it wouldn't be fair to change the rules after the election and [...]
    Posted: March 19, 2008, 9:08pm EDT
  • Krugman's Dismal View on Racial Intent

    The biggest changes in society always seem to take a generation. We sometimes have to wait for the old generation to die off--or at least wane in influence--so that new ideas can get hold. I'm sure you've heard your grandparents say something utterly cringeworthy without a second thought. It doesn't' [...]
    Posted: March 08, 2008, 3:00pm EST
  • The Amazing Wheelchair Tricks of Aaron Fotheringham (my cousin!)

    My 16-year-old cousin Aaron Fotheringham has finally found his niche in life--in a skate park, doing wild and crazy (not to mention dangerous) stunts. This is not unusual for a teenager, but Aaron’s situation is a little different. Born with spina bifida, he is paralyzed from the waist down, and [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2008, 2:11pm EST
  • If This Guy Can Find A Job...

    I scoffed at this story when I read it, but I'm oddly supportive of this fellow. I'm not thrilled about the direction his entrepreneurial spirit has taken him, but I really like the spark of creativity it shows on top of an incredibly mundane idea. His goal was to [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2008, 12:40pm EST
  • McCain-Huckabee Ticket

    There has been some speculation about a McCain-Huckabee ticket for this year's presidential election. I practically thought that McCain was going to throw caution and process to the wind and announce Huckabee as his running mate on the spot during his Super Tuesday victory speech, so fawning was he of [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2008, 10:28pm EST
  • Parking Lot Owners Should Pay

    Number of comments: 2
    I heard the story on the news about a the car windows that were smashed during a Jazz game in Salt Lake City.
    Audrey Martinez says she was lulled into a false sense of security by a sign claiming 24-7 patrols, but she says she later noticed there were [...]
    Posted: January 11, 2008, 8:37pm EST
    by Bradley Ross
  • Iowa Irony

    Number of comments: 3
    Caucuses don't work the same for Democrats and Republicans in Iowa. The Republicans count the votes of each person at their caucus meeting and those votes get aggregated state-wide. Very democratic: one person, one vote.

    The Democrats give each precinct a number of delegates, no matter how many people [...]
    Posted: January 03, 2008, 5:02pm EST
    by Bradley Ross
  • Automated Candidate Selection

    Number of comments: 1
    I tried two different automated candidate selectors for the '08 presidential race. First was one from USA Today that they put together a while ago. Here are my results from that one:
    1. Mitt Romney
    2. Rudy Giuliani
    3. Mike Huckabee
    Not surprising results.

    I then took the quiz from American Public Media hosted at [...]
    Posted: December 22, 2007, 11:46pm EST
    by Bradley Ross
  • Morley's Worker's Comp Bill

    Number of comments: 1
    The Trib is reporting on a bill that Mike Morley is going to put forward in the upcoming session. The bill will cut off worker's comp payments for people who go to jail or who are illegal immigrants. (Anybody got a link to the actual proposed bill?)

    I'm [...]
    Posted: December 13, 2007, 9:37pm EST
    by Bradley Ross
  • COL Takashi on Global Warming

    COL Takashi has an interesting post up about global warming. I don't think he's saying anything new, but he sure makes an articulate argument and pulls together current information in a compelling way.

    Some of the more interesting or amusing points:

    Sea level rise? Only 10 inches [...]
    Posted: December 12, 2007, 3:26pm EST
    by Bradley Ross
  • Bloghive Board Announced

    Number of comments: 3
    The results are in! A new Bloghive Advisory Board has been elected. It was interesting to watch the results shift as the week of voting went on. If I didn't want people to learn how the voting system worked, I would have hidden the results until the end of [...]
    Posted: December 04, 2007, 6:15am EST
    by Bradley
  • Explaining the Vote

    Number of comments: 3
    There have been a few questions about how a preference choice election works. As you know, we are using a preference choice voting system for our Bloghive Advisory Board election that closes tonight. I'm such a fan of the voting system that I was glad to have an opportunity [...]
    Posted: December 03, 2007, 9:47am EST
    by Bradley
  • Advisory Board Election

    Number of comments: 4
    It is time to cast your votes (one ballot per person please!) for the Utah Bloghive Advisory Board. Five of the following candidates will be elected to serve on the board. Anyone is welcome to vote. (After all, how could I stop them?) My hope is that the board will [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2007, 11:27am EST
    by Bradley
  • Bloghive Advisory Board

    Number of comments: 12
    If there is sufficient interest, I'd like to form a Bloghive Advisory Board. Here is the vision. We'll form a five member board that votes on administrative issues for the bloghive site. When new sites are recommended for the bloghive, the board will vote to decide on inclusion. The [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2007, 7:13am EST
    by Bradley
  • Voucher Redux, Or What a Waste

    Number of comments: 2
    Well, the Utah school voucher referendum has likely failed. Now we can all settle down and get back to loving our neighbors and eating green Jello with carrot shavings (or orange Jello with celery bits). Next time we bring this issue up, can we all play nice and respect [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2007, 11:10pm EST
    by Keryn
  • Why I Support Vouchers for Rich People

    Number of comments: 1
    I posted earlier about the lame mailer from Utahns for Public Schools. I want to expand a bit on why that seemed so lame, and why I think vouchers for rich people are a great thing and why I think they'll help everyone--even especially the public schools.

    It's [...]
    Posted: October 28, 2007, 8:38am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Spiteful: Utahns for Public Schools Ad

    Number of comments: 4
    I received an incredibly petty ad in the mail from Utahns for Public Schools. Perhaps you did too. Since it illustrates a point that been bugging me about the voucher debate for a while, I decided to address it--not because I believe anyone reading this is available to be swayed [...]
    Posted: October 28, 2007, 8:15am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Chief Justice John Roberts at BYU

    Number of comments: 2
    I got the opportunity to attend the forum lecture by Chief Justice John Roberts at Brigham Young University today. The forum was well-attended; from my vantage point it looked as if almost all the regular seats were taken, with very little spill-over to the bleacher seats. When the Chief Justice [...]
    Posted: October 23, 2007, 2:12pm EDT
    by Keryn
  • Hiram Bertoch: Utah Voucher Flyer In My Mail

    Number of comments: 2
    A blogger who doesn't normally comment on politics has put up a reaction to a flyer he received in the mail from Parents for Choice in Education.

    Utah Voucher Flyer In My Mail

    It doesn't appear that Hiram allows comments on his blog (which looks bad in [...]
    Posted: October 19, 2007, 10:45am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Feeling Like a Mormon Democrat: Yet Another Voucher Post

    Number of comments: 11
    I'm not a Democrat, but being a voucher supporter in Utah may be the closest I'm going to get to feeling like a Mormon Democrat. You're embarrassed to be on the same team with certain other people on your side of the issues, but you stay because that's where your [...]
    Posted: October 12, 2007, 6:51pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Harry Reid at BYU

    Number of comments: 2
    I just returned from watching Harry Reid present a forum address at BYU. I really liked his presentation. In the introduction by President Samuelson, we got the usual rundown on life history and previous church callings. I was surprised to hear that Senator Reid's church callings included only High Priest [...]
    Posted: October 09, 2007, 1:30am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Campaign Finance Folly

    Number of comments: 2
    I'm steamed about campaign finance laws that limit the amount of money people can contribute to political parties or politicians. They are an affront to the constitutional protection of speech. (I fully support mandatory disclosure of donor names and amounts.) People trying to get around the artificial limits on [...]
    Posted: September 10, 2007, 7:24pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Baptizing Illegal Immigrants

    Number of comments: 7
    I was quite surprised to read the following in an extended draft[1] of a biography of President Spencer W. Kimball.
    For Spencer to express an opinion baldly and expect compliance was rare, but years later Francis Gibbons remembered such an incident because it was so unusual. In a joint meeting [...]
    Posted: September 06, 2007, 8:22pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Shifting Views on Education?

    Number of comments: 1
    I just read, in the online magazine Slate, a fascinating article about teachers and the slowly changing perception the public has about them:
    High-pressured and punishingof such macho qualities is social cachet often built in the world of work. Nowhere in Tyler Heights or Stuyvesant, in Perlstein's and [...]
    Posted: September 01, 2007, 1:32pm EDT
    by Keryn
  • A Relieved Reaction to the Sen. Craig Story

    Number of comments: 5
    Today at work I saw the breaking news headline splashed across the top of the CNN.com website. "Sen. Larry Craig is stepping down from his committee assignments amid calls for his resignation from the Senate." I started frothing at the mouth in annoyance because I assumed that the partisan environment [...]
    Posted: August 29, 2007, 9:28pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • The Giuliani Dilemma

    Number of comments: 3
    If Rudy Giuliani were the GOP nominee, I would have a difficult time pulling the lever for him. I'm totally creeped out by his personal life. There are those who would argue that the personal and the public are totally separate. I'd disagree with them.

    Or maybe not. I've [...]
    Posted: August 12, 2007, 9:14pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • KSL's confusing story about Israeli and Muslim Scouts

    The headline: Israeli Scouts Don't Attend Planned Meeting with Muslim Scouts

    A well-written headline--all the pertinent information present, right? There was a meeting planned, the Muslim Scouts showed up, the Israeli Scouts didn't.

    The actual story under the headline is somewhat less well-written. Actually, it's rather [...]
    Posted: July 18, 2007, 10:46pm EDT
    by Keryn
  • Hatch and Bennett on Immigration Bill Cloture

    Tomorrow the U.S. Senate will revisit the immigration bill by voting on a cloture motion. If 60 senators vote "yes", then debate will resume and the bill comes ever closer to passing--a very bad idea in my opinion. The bill is long on rewards for illegal behavior and short [...]
    Posted: June 25, 2007, 7:17pm EDT
    by Keryn
  • Trousers and Self-Deception

    Number of comments: 4
    There is a judge suing a dry cleaner over a lost pair of pants. I'm sure you've heard about his $54 million suit against the dry cleaners. A blogger was interviewed on Olberman's show and MSN put up the video of the interview. He explained that the aggrieved party [...]
    Posted: June 14, 2007, 10:14am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Congressional Car Selection and Fuel Economy

    Dana Milbank, in a Washington Post column last year, zinged several lawmakers for driving gas guzzling cars to events within easy walking distance of their offices. With gas prices back in the news this summer, I thought the article was worth digging up again.

    Here are a few [...]
    Posted: June 10, 2007, 7:51pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Michael Moore Takes the High Road

    Number of comments: 1
    I read that Michael Moore gave $12,000 to one of his biggest detractors. He even tried to do it anonymously. It was a really good reminder to me that we're all people with feelings and generous impulses--even on the internet where sometimes things get a little too mean.
    [...]
    Posted: May 21, 2007, 12:03am EDT
    by Bradley
  • NY Times: Democrats Cause Global Warming!

    Number of comments: 4
    According to a Saturday editorial in the New York Times, Democrats are causing global warming! Who'd have thought? According to the Times, "Energy-gluttonous cities account for three-fourths of greenhouse gas emissions the world over." Hmmm. Which party is it that controls and populates most of the big cities...
    [...]
    Posted: May 20, 2007, 9:18am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Who will fact check FactCheck?

    Number of comments: 3
    I usually appreciate FactCheck.org's work in looking at the claims political candidates make. However, their latest report on the 2nd GOP presidential debate left me unsatisfied. It seemed to be sprinkled with an underlying viewpoint. Here are the two items in particular that bugged me.
    Global Warming

    During [...]
    Posted: May 18, 2007, 2:42pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Smoke the Ratings

    Number of comments: 3
    My eye rolling muscles are working overtime as I contemplate the new decision by the MPAA to push movies with smoking toward an R rating. As if the ratings weren't already useless enough, now we're going to slap an R rating on a movie when it features something that [...]
    Posted: May 11, 2007, 8:05am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Tornadoes and the Guard

    Number of comments: 1
    There has been much hand wringing about the shortage of equipment available in Kansas after the recent tornado because the national guard is "missing in action." Take Bob Aagard, a local blogger, for example.

    However, the National Guard hasn't been involved in helping with some of the tornados [...]
    Posted: May 09, 2007, 7:35am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Concerns about "Alternative Commencement"

    Number of comments: 3
    I'll admit that I'm of two minds about the concept of an alternative commencement like the one recently staged for BYU grads. I'm in support of diverse opinions being expressed and I supported in spirit the students who wanted to protest against Vice President Cheney. I disagreed with them in [...]
    Posted: April 29, 2007, 10:00pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Satan at the Convention

    Number of comments: 8
    I'm a county delegate for my Republican precinct, and it's convention season--the Utah County Republican Convention is this Saturday April 28. In the mail today I got the information about the convention--when to be there, what's on the agenda, the proposed changes to the county platform, etc. Included in the [...]
    Posted: April 24, 2007, 9:11pm EDT
    by Keryn
  • Go Gwen!

    Number of comments: 1
    Gwen Ifill was a guest on Meet the Press this week. The reporters' roundtable was supposed to cover three different topics, but the first topic, the Don Imus firing, occupied the entire time. As I watched the show, I could almost see the fire dancing behind Gwen's eyes, even [...]
    Posted: April 19, 2007, 8:09am EDT
    by Bradley
  • "Join in the national healing"?

    Number of comments: 4
    At the top of CNN.com this afternoon, a blue banner read: "Watch Now>>Virginia Tech convocation. Join in the national healing."

    I hope I can explain why this rubbed me the wrong way without offending anyone touched by this tragedy. Make no mistake, this is a terrible tragedy. I feel [...]
    Posted: April 17, 2007, 12:16pm EDT
    by Keryn
  • Hatch for AG; Urquhart for Senate

    Number of comments: 1
    There has been chatter that Orrin Hatch might be appointed to replace Gonzales as Attorney General if Gonzales resigns. While I doubt a Hatch appointment is in the offing, I can see a really cool side effect. Steve Urquhart could be appointed to fill Hatch's seat [...]
    Posted: April 04, 2007, 9:58pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • This Makes Me Want to Quit the GOP

    Number of comments: 3
    Pete du Pont writes for OpinionJournal.com

    In the Bush years, the Republican Congress has spent like liberals. Federal spending is now $23,000 per household, a $7,000 increase in the past five years. There has been an annual 7.7% increase in nondefense discretionary spending, and the number of earmarks [...]

    Posted: April 01, 2007, 9:35am EDT
    by Bradley
  • Hyper-partisanship Comes Back to Bite Global Warming Alarmists

    Number of comments: 1
    People who care about global warming should start an immediate campaign to end hyper-partisanship in national politics and encourage civil debate. A culture has been fostered that encourages the demonizing of one's political opponents. If an "evil" person makes a valid point, many are still loathe to recognize it as [...]
    Posted: March 29, 2007, 5:04pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Ken Burns at BYU

    Number of comments: 2
    I attended the BYU Forum address (and the following Q&A session) by famed documentarian Ken Burns yesterday. He exceeded every expectation. BYU was not, unfortunately, able to broadcast the forum because Burns showed clips from an upcoming documentary on WWII that will not be released until this fall. I'm [...]
    Posted: March 28, 2007, 6:11pm EDT
    by Bradley
  • Leisure Redistribution?

    Number of comments: 3
    An article by Steven E Landsburg on Slate Magazine looks at the gap in number of leisure hours between the rich and the poor. Poorly paid workers have far more leisure hours than highly paid workers. While this is an interesting concept, the final paragraph really caught my attention: [...]
    Posted: March 12, 2007, 8:54pm EDT
    by Keryn
  • Help the Kids at Primary Children's

    Number of comments: 1
    Yesterday and today is the KSL Radiothon to raise money for Primary Children's Medical Center. I hope that you will consider making a donation to this wonderful facility.

    My little boy, now two and a half months old, was born with spina bifida. He is doing great thanks [...]
    Posted: March 07, 2007, 10:34am EST
    by Bradley
  • A Better Way to Vote

    Number of comments: 8
    A post over at Utah Amicus, repeating a Trib editorial by Rep. Roz McGee, talks about her beef with the current districting process in Utah. I wrote the following comment as a follow up to that post.
    I agree with the district boundary principles you have set forth here. However, [...]
    Posted: February 19, 2007, 7:45am EST
    by Bradley
  • My Contribution to "Blog for Choice"

    Let's take a small glimpse into an alternate universe.

    In this place, the struggle for a balance of power between the sexes has been ongoing for a great many years. Women, who are naturally much stronger than men, have been traditionally dominant in this society--though men have historically benefited [...]
    Posted: February 06, 2007, 8:15pm EST
    by Bradley
  • How is this different than Jim Crow?

    The Politico has an article titled "Black Caucus: Whites Not Allowed". An excerpt:
    As a white liberal running in a majority African American district, Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen made a novel pledge on the campaign trail last year: If elected, he would seek to become the first [...]
    Posted: January 24, 2007, 8:20pm EST
    by Keryn
  • The Bloghive is Born

    The word has started leaking out already, so it is time for my official announcement of the Utah Bloghive. I've been beta testing the site for a while and I think it is ready for prime time.

    I'm hoping the site can become a [...]
    Posted: January 19, 2007, 11:29pm EST
    by Bradley
  • Gingrich Defends the Clinton Impeachment

    Whatever you think about Newt Gingrich, you have to admit he is a powerful orator. I wish I had the ability to speak so powerfully and concisely. In his appearance on Meet the Press last week, I was impressed and persuaded by his defense of how he pursued the [...]
    Posted: December 24, 2006, 9:44pm EST
    by Bradley
  • NPR Mentions Utah Buses

    While driving today, I heard a bit of a story about the ways cities are trying to get people, particularly business people, to ride the bus. They mentioned Utah and the current experiment with putting wi-fi internet access on some routes up north. You can listen to the story [...]
    Posted: December 06, 2006, 11:52pm EST
    by Bradley
  • More Data in Support of UTOPIA

    The New York Times has a report about the squabbles between equipment installers for phone and cable companies. They seem to be perpetually damaging each other's equipment as they switch customers from one service to the other.

    One of the strongest arguments for a municipal broadband infrastructure is [...]
    Posted: November 26, 2006, 6:27pm EST
    by Bradley
  • DDT: Good or bad?

    I read an article similar to this one awhile back that claimed that DDT was unfairly maligned and could save millions of lives by killing mosquitoes. Then I read this article refuting many of the more convincing points--saying basically that DDT isn't the magic bullet some claim it [...]
    Posted: August 19, 2005, 9:26am EDT
    by Keryn

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