POSTED // Apr 10,2013 - I was reading the March 31 Sunday Trib when I came across a Conway column about measuring online viewers—or users—at daily newspapers. The headline, “Keeping the record straight on readership” caused me to guffaw

POSTED // Mar 27,2013 - This is the time of year when many among the City Weekly staff duck for cover. No matter who receives a Best of Utah award, whether it be by readers’ votes or editorial staff pick,

POSTED // Mar 13,2013 - The Roman Catholic cardinals who will select a new pope for the Catholic Church officially have convened in Rome. Sometime soon, a waft of smoke will appear from a little chimney atop part of the Vatican, signaling that a new pope has been selected.

POSTED // Jan 16,2013 - I just learned that Mike McCoy is set to become the next head coach of the San Diego Chargers football team. The last time I saw Mike, we were chatting it up while he was pouring me a VO and water at Lumpy’s on Highland Drive.

POSTED // Dec 19,2012 - Today, I’m eight days past my birthday. Josephine would have only three days past hers. She died Friday, Dec. 14, with many friends and teachers, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.

POSTED // Nov 7,2012 - I became hungry back in September, like fellow Mitt Romney worshipers, when it became widely believed that without godly intervention, Mr. Romney had no chance of winning the U.S. presidency.

POSTED // Sep 26,2012 - Am I the only person not crying buckets because the University of Utah football team got waxed by Arizona State University down in Tempe on Sept. 22? Well, outside of BYU or Utah State fans, who don’t mind that Utah got some comeuppance, that is. I’m not sad about it because although the Utes got spanked worse than a dirty rug on laundry day, those same Utes didn’t quit. I despise quitters. I’m a realist, though.

POSTED // Sep 12,2012 - In recent articles written since Brian Barnard died, he’s still described as a gadfly. I wondered to myself how it could possibly be that with all the great victories Brian won in court over these years,

POSTED // Aug 22,2012 - Anyone who’s read this column for the past few years already knows what’s coming—my annual pre-season tirade about how screwed up the Utah athletic ticket office is.

POSTED // Jul 18,2012 - I graduated from Bingham High School in 1972 with embarrassing grades, a right shoulder destroyed forever thanks to a dislocation that the coaches treated with some hot cream, and a $50 scholarship to the University of Utah, where I would remain lost for the next seven years.