The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
Did you know the MTC is critically out of space and in need of a new, sparkly 9-story building? Envious of their bretheren to the North at City Creek, the Provo MTC was making plans to build a new building in place of several old classrooms. Since Provo isn’t a direct theocracy (yet), things still [...]
I’d like to say the news has been slow; in reality, the number of fucks I give has just been diminishing. So here’s what’s been going on: The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Healthcare Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”) on the grounds that the fine for those people who don’t have insurance—in other words, who don’t adhere [...]
The most flaccidly anticipated event of the Utah Senatorial election happened last Friday, with the one and only debate between incumbent Orrin Hatch and GOP challenger Dan Liljenquist happening on the radio, in the middle of the day, moderated by a guy who still owes us two plane tickets to Denver. The hour-long debate was [...]
We chided the Deseret News once before for their inability to distinguish between causation and correlation. They apparently don’t read our blog, because they’ve done it again. Their recent article, Video games, porn hook young men, with sad consequences, explores the horrors of young men consuming porn and playing videos games*. Quoting the Center for Disease Control, the Deseret News [...]
What’d you do this weekend? If you’re like us, you probably blacked out from drinking too much candied liquor and awoke, coughing up glitter and wearing nothing more than a feather boa. That’s right – it was Pride weekend in Utah. The biggest news to happen this weekend was the simple fact that several hundred [...]
If you’re a liberal-leaning Mormon and politics come up, you love bringing up Harry Reid. Here we have a Mormon who is not only a Democrat, but he currently holds one of the highest positions in Congress—Senate Majority Leader. You see!? We’re not all uber-conservative Republicans; some of us are somewhat-less-conservative Democrats! For those of you [...]
Outside of Utah, people have this strange reason for thinking that Mormon’s are weird. Like culty, brainwashed weird. Also weird, as a presidential candidate in America, things like your religion have a strange bearing on your viability as a human being. We all know Mittens can count on the support of his kin-folk (even if [...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently released a poorly-done video* explaining the organization’s alleged political neutrality. Using a whiteboard animation (even “animation” is a generous term) it discusses what the church means when it says it’s politically neutral—that they don’t officially endorse parties or candidates—as well as what it doesn’t mean when [...]
Utah Democrats have recognized the inevitable – that they must begin appealing to the broader Mormon base in Utah or risk going extinct. Like the lung fish, struggling to breathe on the swampy shores of the cradle of life inexplicably zapped into existence 4,000 years ago (Thanks Jesus!), the Utah Democratic chairman Jim Dabakis has begun reaching [...]
Um, as you totally already know, the LDS Church does not, like, you know, get involved in politics. Like, ever. Duh. Tubular. Let’s go to the mall. In fact, the LDS Church is so far removed from politics, that they’ve even released a press release highlighting their political neutrality* [emphasis added]: “The Church’s mission is [...]