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Private Eye | Sin or No Sin: Those who are at arms with Utah have a mistaken point.Private Eye | Collateral Damage: Don't devalue your friends, Dan.It's a MiracleJim Matheson: CowardPrivate Eye | You Got Seats! Take my Ute tickets, please.Claudia Wright: The Right ChoicePrivate Eye | Get Raid: Utah’s Legislature doesn’t have time for polygamistsPrivate Eye | It’s Inevitable: I don’t shop at Wal-Mart, but I won’t judge your warm fuzzy addiction.Private Eye | Sarah the Terrible: Palin is either Dan Quayle 2.0 or a performing seal.Private Eye | Good Lord! All Utahns aren’t to blame for Prop 8, Dan Savage.
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Newspapers Gone Wild!
Big Utah dailies are making big blunders as they scramble for profits.
POSTED // Sep 2,2009 - A few years ago, Ann Poore, a former copy editor at City Weekly, occasionally suggested that I should meet Connie Coyne.
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University of Utah football rules
Cheering for the SLC team is a basic building-block for a happy childhood.
POSTED // Aug 26,2009 - Hello from my desk. It's nice to be home from abroad, and equally nice to nearly be over the jetlag...
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Bookends
Vacation over, lessons learned, Utah's still home
POSTED // Aug 19,2009 - Hello from 36,000 feet above Manitoba. By writing this, I effectively join the newest variant of the Mile High Club—people who work on airplanes but don't work up a sweat...
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Bad Greek Cops
Tomorrow, I’m going to Fira to look around that hotel. Wanna bet I find a dented car and a cop shaking down a new batch of tourists?
POSTED // Aug 5,2009 - Hello from sunny Santorini. Last week, it was Athens; then Chania, Crete; and now Santorini—one of the most visited attractions in all of Europe...
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Barbarians
There’s no need to destroy and build upon ancient burial grounds, in Athens or Draper.
POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - Hello from Greece. There's nothing like a little jetlag to make the usually simple chore of cranking out this column turn into a nightmare of missed keystrokes and lost thoughts...
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Team Play
High school sports should not be shaped by ward-house politics
POSTED // Jul 22,2009 - Everybody thinks they have a book in them, or a movie. I know I do, or did, anyway. For the longest time, I thought I'd write the great American movie about how tough it was adapting to life in the United States...
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Der Plaza
Jackboots and hoodlums on the Main Street Plaza.
POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - One, two, three: "scissors." My opponent has rock. I lose. One, two, three: "scissors." He has paper. I win. Now comes the tie-breaking third match. My opponent looks devious. He's trying to get me to reveal something...
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Bury His Heart
McNamara is not the obvious sinister, just the obvious scapegoat.
POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - In the waning days of World War II, a good number of Nazi war criminals and sympathizers traded their uniforms for civilian wear ...
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Privately Speaking
The moral cops and Prohibitionists have been wrong for 40 years.
POSTED // Jul 1,2009 - The first private club I ever entered was the old Club 39 on 3900 South. It eventually fell to make room for the expanding St. Mark's Hospital, but not before the club took on other names like the One More Time Club and Oscar's.
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All the Marbles
American Indian artifacts must not fall into the hands of profiteers.
POSTED // Jun 24,2009 - Anyone who has previously read this column knows I'm quite proud of being Greek. They also know I'm not a full-blooded Greek, and that a fourth of my genes link me to the first Mormon pioneers to settle Utah...
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