The Absolute Worst that Utah Has to Offer
We’ve written extensively* about Utah’s liquor laws, and there’s a recent developed that just makes me want to go home, drink, and violently beat my wife and dog. Did you know Utah restaurants “may not sell, offer for sale, or furnish an alcoholic product except in connection with an order for food”? This is ridiculous in and [...]
Remember how we were supposed to vote for Orrin Hatch so he could be Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee? Well, the caveat he continually forgot to mention was that would only be possible if Republicans gained control of the Senate. Turns out, the GOP actually lost two Senate seats. Come 2013, in the Senate there will [...]
On June 1st, 2011 we wrote our first in a series of many posts about how Orrin Hatch is an idiot. And now, 461 days later, we finally have a reason to start our other Orrin-Hatch related series: Orrin Hatch Isn’t a Complete Idiot. Last week, Orrin Hatch was questioned on the issue of gay [...]
I bet you are all surprised to see that we haven’t been assassinated or reassigned to Gayle Ruzicka’s ‘reeducation camp’ in the basement of the Church Office Building.* Yes, unfortunately for us and you, we’re still here and kicking. Apparently we decided to take a modest summer break. What can we say? We were emulating [...]
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 [...]
Let me tell you how fucked up Utah is. In two weeks, we’ll* celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution being passed by Congress. This amendment established a direct election for United States Senators. Previous to this, U.S. Senators were elected by state legislatures. The original Constitutional setup was pretty [...]
For a moment, I wanted to believe senility was setting in on the 78-year-old Orrin Hatch when he decried “radical libertarians”; surely he meant “radical liberals“, right? I mean, while Republicans and Libertarians don’t see eye-to-eye on everything, Hatch has to be aware of the similarities. At the core of Libertarianism is freedom, individual liberty, and extremely [...]
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, [...]
This article from the SL Trib is certain to set you off this morning. Before reading it, I recommend you take your state-issued Prozac. Done? Ok. In summary, it examines the influence the LDS Church indirectly exerts over the state legislature. I say indirectly because, according to IRS Tax Exempt law, the LDS Church is [...]
Hey at least we aren’t last, right? That’s about the only good news coming from a recently released Utah Corruption Risk Scorecard, giving Utah a D grade and ranking us at 36 out of 50 in the US. The project was a cooperative effort between the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International. [...]