The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
A BYU-sanctioned panel last week put three homosexual students and one bisexual student in front of hundreds of faculty, staff, and other students to discuss their experience being gay at BYU. By most* accounts, it was a successful, calm, educational experience. Each member of the panel was able to talk about their own thoughts regarding [...]
Orrin Hatch is here in Utah, stumping around town for his reelection. At a stop in Farmington, Hatch predicted that Obama would “use Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith against him in the general election.” When asked to explain himself, he later said that: The Obama people have some of the best political consultants in the country [...]
Our good friend Orrin Hatch—who, unfortunately, appears to be on his way to reelection—has once again shown how idiotic, hypocritical, and entrenched in his own self importance he really is. Last week, Hatch published an op-ed about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare). Among other drivel, he wrote: Under Obama’s law, all individuals [...]
Today I had a fun* conversation on Facebook in response to someone asking why the President didn’t do something about gas prices. Some facts I brought to start the conversation: Domestic drilling is at an all time high, even higher than it was under President Bush The US at present is a net exporter of refined petroleum [...]
A recent Gallup poll ranked the 50 states by religiosity—based on worship attendance, frequency of prayer, and belief in God—and Utah came in 2nd place, with Mississippi taking the pious cake. For me, the most immediate humor of this poll was how backwards the religious of each state think the other is. For instance, all the Bible-thumping, praise-the-Lord-ing, [...]
Did you have a good Conference Weekend? I hope so. It was so very inspiring to hear (and live-tweet!) the latest news from the LDS Church’s semiannual shareholders meeting. Sure looking forward to that dividend distribution in August! Anyways, chock full of spunk* and inspiration, we thought we’d get back to the news. The SLTrib [...]