Glenden at One Utah has a thought-provoking post on the nature of fundamentalism and how that promotes dishonesty:

"Sarah Palin is a fundamentalist and her lies make sense in that light. Fundamentalist thought reaches a conclusion and never moves beyond it; Sarah Palin is the poster child for that mindset. She reached her conclusion and stopped - ( Read more... )

Glendon Brown over at One Utah has a very revealing post about how much our Utah legislators were paid for their yea vote were given in contributions by "Parents" for Choice In Education. Glendon has listed who said yea and nay on the controversial voucher bill and how much they recieved in campaign contributions from PCE. How much does it cost to ( Read more... )

. . . and so does the new project some friends of mine have taken up: Petroleum Peace Offering/No Drive Day

My post about the petroleum peace offering "What are we willing to sacrifice for peace?" made TreeHugger's Blog Love list. TreeHugger is the biggest and best green-living blog out there. I've been picked for their blog-love before, whenever I' ( Read more... )

Congrats to Holly Mullen, who is the new editor of City Weekly, Salt Lake City's alt paper. Holly, for those who don't know, was a great columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune who quit a few months ago. She's been participating in the Utah Blogosphere on a regular basis ( mullentown ).

I read City Weekly, but I've been unhappy with it on many occasions ( Read more... )

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From A Liberal Mormon:

"Pro-life shouldn’t simply be about forcing expectant mothers to carry their babies to term, but rather about ensuring they have the medical, financial, and emotional support which will help reduce the feelings of desperation and isolation which lead many women to seek abortions.

Pro-life means not merely fighting to provide ( Read more... )

Check out former SL Trib Columnist Holly Mullen's Blog -- which should be top notch compared to us amateurs.


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My friend Shelly has finally taken the plunge and started blogging. His first post makes a great case for the 110th Congress to re-establish the rules before the game becomes meaningless.

Form Over Substance, Please

Imagine a football game in which one team scores repeatedly by running out of bounds, clipping, holding, face-masking, and refusing to ( Read more... )

Left Out Front writes about next year's Burning Man gathering, with a Green Man theme for next year. The best part is that all burners are incouraged to offset the CO2 footprint  they create by attending the event.

Voice of Utah discusses our wasteful legislature that would rather spend millions over lawsuits for trying to legislate our choices (in ( Read more... )

Voice of Utah is posting a series of  Jim Mattheson 'toons (actually photographs with cartoon dialogue balloons) that are very funny and clever.

Here's a sample, shamlessly ganked:


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