POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - It made my day, big time. There it was, buried in the second paragraph of a story in The Salt Lake Tribune about Jon Huntsman Sr.’s 20,000-square-foot Deer Valley hideaway being put on the market for $55 million...
POSTED // Aug 5,2009 - Prophet, seer, and revelator Thomas Monson used all of his considerable powers of persuasion to bring together the parties in the now-notorious "Church Plaza kiss" episode...
POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - Death hangs over us, said the Roman orator Cicero, like the stone over Tantalus. Or like the pig that fell from a balcony a few years ago in downtown Dubrovnik, killing a hapless tourist from Brigham City...
POSTED // Jul 22,2009 - Utah's senior senator, Orrin Hatch, is still catching flak for his first question to Sonia Sotomayor during the hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court. Surrounded by the usual clamoring media scum...
POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - They can't even get the name out of their mouths: "Sss, Sssnuh, Sssni, Sssnide..." The erstwhile inhabitants of... Snyderville (see, it's not so hard) have always considered themselves to be from ... Park City!
POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - "Did you see Meet the Press this morning?" My old missionary companion, Mit Romney (he recently downsized his first name, his houses and his family to show that he's taking the recession seriously ...
POSTED // Jul 1,2009 - One of the untold stories of the current recession is the huge toll it's taking on personal grooming habits. People are no longer bothering to bathe, shave, apply makeup or even brush their hair before appearing in public.
POSTED // Jun 24,2009 - I am glad that champions of family values like our two elderly senators, Orrin “The Oracle” Hatch and Bob “Beanpole” Bennett, have come forward to denounce the heavyhanded and family-hostile tactics of federal law-enforcement goons ...
POSTED // Jun 17,2009 - Utah and Mars go way back together, back to when Brigham Young brought the Saints to this God-forsaken corner of the organized universe. "This is the place," Brigham famously pronounced as he gazed upon the bleak landscape ...
POSTED // Jun 10,2009 - I'm lucky to be alive. It was the last day of my college reunion, a morning mopping-up brunch for stragglers with late planes or diehards who wanted to wipe every last morsel of nostalgia from the sentimental smorgasbord...