The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
Some kids have shitty parents—parents who are too disinterested, stupid, or drunk to actually raise their children. As part of a society, we have an vested interest in our youth, especially because we don’t want kids with shitty parents to become shitty people/parents themselves. But not only do we want to avoid the perpetual idiocy that can come [...]
Gas prices have started to tick upwards across the nation, and Republicans have found their new vehicle of attack against President Obama. Realizing that people (outside of Utah) are no longer scared by the specter of gays marrying and destroying the nation* and that attacking women’s rights motivates people to vote against them instead of [...]
I mentioned how the Utah Legislature was considering allowing businesses to be open, but it turns out there are even more ways the state government—dominated* by small-government advocate Republicans—is helping keep government out of your life. 1. Unable to understand what the word “public” actually means, the House has passed a bill to ban hookahs and e-cigarettes [...]
On Wednesday, the Utah House passed HB363, a bill that would let schools skip sex-ed all together and would ban instruction on the use of contraception if they chose to even talk about it. Wright’s craziness was watered down from the original bill which banned any discussion of sexuality except abstinence and fidelity in marriage. [...]
Remember when you were about to turn 18 and couldn’t wait to move out of your parents’ basement so you could make it in the real world and finally do what you want and make your own decisions and be a grown-ass man whose mom doesn’t keep calling me every weekend asking if I’ve been [...]
Feeling not so fresh? Maybe a little bit of a burning sensation? Don’t worry – that’s just the government getting all up inside your lady bits. After a week long firestorm kicked off by the administration’s decision to require that religious groups be required to pay for contraceptive insurance just like everyone else (a decision [...]
There. We did it. Now stop complaining. While you were busy honoring the Presidents Day holiday by buying a new mattress,* Telestial State spent the weekend by giving our website a badly needed facelift. We gave up our 3-day holiday for our readers, because we care SO much about our readers.** However, like all facelifts, [...]
We’ll make this simple. We’re bribing our readers. We really want to win the City Weekly’s “Best of Utah” contest in any of the following categories: Best Local Blog/Site Best Local on Twitter Worst Utahn Do we deserve it? Probably not. But we really want it.* So, we’re now resorting to bribery. Here’s how this [...]
We tweeted about this the other day; but you guys knew we couldn’t just leave it at that, right? Orrin Hatch recently said in an interview—which was apparently held in some guy’s basement—of Planned Parenthood: About 95% of what they do, from what I understand, is abortion. This is an asinine statement in and of itself; [...]
Let’s say you’re the head of a huge, international religion with membership in the millions. But not only are members of your church “leaving in droves”—a fact which a prominent member of your church acknowledges—but a few years ago, you invested* significant time and money to impose your religious beliefs on others, only to have Proposition 8 ultimately [...]