The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
I hope you didn’t like knowing things about the country you live in. The House voted a few weeks back to eliminate the American Community Survey, a data collection tool performed since the 1790s that creates a detailed portrait of the lives of Americans. Sure, the ACS collects some pretty obscure data, such as flush toilet [...]
Taking a play from nomination challenger Dan Liljenquist’s book, Orrin Hatch has upped his attacks against public employee pensions. “The public pension crisis plaguing our nation demands a real solution. Over the coming weeks, I will be putting forward ideas to reform public pension programs in a meaningful way that doesn’t leave taxpayers on the [...]
In a move designed to make conservative heads explode across the Wasatch Front, the US Dept of Agriculture awarded Utah $60.3 million in federal aid as a result of this spring’s heavy flooding. Tampon jokes aside, Utah took a staggering 20% of the $307.6 million given out nationally, and we were up against some tough [...]
Last week, Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to answer some questions about Google’s search results. Allegedly, Google has been giving their own websites an extra boost in certain SERPs. For instance, if I search for “restaurant reviews”, Zagat.com is the first result; it just so happens that Google owns [...]
Utah is a beautiful state – and I’m not talking about the meth-addled Mormon women competing with each other to have blonder hair, faker tans, and bigger boobs. I’m talking about the mountains, deserts, and other natural landscapes that make Utah an outdoor mecca. Well, Orrin Hatch wants to take his oil-rig penis and rape [...]