The Republican Nominee Doesn't Matter
It doesn't matter whether the Republican nominee is Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich (or Ron Paul or Rick Santorum or Joe the Plumber).Republican leaders will do everything in their power to get their...
View ArticleHas it been fifty years already? Some Thoughts on A Wrinkle In Time
Over the weekend I was sorting out my book shelves and came across a dog-eared and battered copy of Madeline L'Engle's 1962 novel A Wrinkle In Time.
View ArticleSwimming in Systems
This post was cross-posted at OneUtah.orgThe US is a system; it is an open system which means the other systems with which it communicates affect it. Internal events have effects as well; the national...
View ArticleBishop Wester is Wrong: Religious Freedom is Not Under Attack
This diary was crossposted at OneUtah.Saturday, Feb 18, the Salt Lake Tribunepublished an op-ed from Bishop John C. Wester of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City in which the Bishop claims:More and...
View ArticleThe Micro Reflects the Macro: Utah's No Sex Ed Bill and Conservatives Fit...
It's incredibly simple. At a national level, conservatives are doing everything they can to whip up fear of sex to drive voters to the polls this year. Utah's unbelievably bad sex ed bill is a...
View ArticleI'm So Ready To Dance at the Festival of Colors
Last year, I attended the Festival of Colors at the Sri Sri Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. The folks at the temple report that theirs is the largest Festival of Colors in the Americas. Last...
View ArticleGlendale Middle School Asks the Community How to Prevent Bullying
Glendale Middle Schooldoesn't exactly have a stellar reputation. It serves a community with a sizable population of immigrants and refugees, as well as being in traditionally economically...
View ArticleUtah Gov Vetoes "Keep Your Knees Together and Pray" Bill
Crossposted at One UtahSo, in a move that surprised me, Gov. Herbert vetoed the legislature's regressive, ignorant, fear based sex education bill.The issue of sex education - especially abstinence only...
View ArticleDefending Abstinence Only Education With Contested Notions of Freedom, Virtue...
A slightly edited version of this post appeared at OneUtah.Paul Mero is the head of the Utah based right wing think tank Sutherland Institute. In defense of Utah's abstinence only, no condoms please...
View ArticleWhat I Did Last Saturday . . . Festival of Colors
This is the largest Holi celebration in the Americas. In Spanish Fork, Utah, no less. I hear that at least sixty-five thousand people attended. It's a great time, you listen to live music, you throw...
View ArticleRodeo Queens And Stranger Things
With the return of summer has come my return to the world of rodeo. I find the whole experience fascinating.Ideological, economic, and social functions permeate contemporary American rodeo. The...
View ArticleWhy are they constantly reducing the value of the lgbtq community and our...
Why are they constantly reducing the value of the lgbtq community and our lives to sex acts? That's the question Alvin McEwan asked in response to Del. Bob Marshall (Republican, of course) who opposed...
View ArticleHate Behind the Mask of Religion
In October 2001, a group of nonprofits in Utah sponsored a conference entitled Hate Behind the Mask of Religion. I attended that conference and have periodically referred to the contents over the...
View ArticleHate Behind the Mask of Religion: About That Standing Ovation For Charles Worley
Hat tip to John Aravosis at Americablog for catching this one.So a week after delivering a sermon calling for gay people to be put into concentration camps, pig ignorant bigot Charles Worley got a...
View ArticleJudge Orders "Eye For an Eye" Punishment: But was it justice?
The story itself bothers me. Two teenage girls befriended a 3 year old while she was at a McDonald's playland, then cut off a huge chunk of the three year old's hair. They were identified and sent to...
View ArticleNixon's Ghost, Missed Opportunities and Political Gridlock
I've long thought that American politics - and economics - went sideways in the 1970s and we've never recovered. The ghost of Richard Nixon continues to haunt American politics. Nixon's resignation...
View ArticleI feel like I'm driving through Mordor
For the last week, the Facebook posts and communications from friends and family in Colorado have grown increasingly worried as wildfires consume vast chunks of the state. The weather remains hot and...
View ArticleThings That Need to Change: Punitive Attitudes Toward the Poor
A nice catch by my friend Gina Cornia, of Utahns Against Hunger.A recent article from New Orleans included a photo of a boy living in the projects who happened to own an iPad. As you can imagine, all...
View ArticleThings to think about: Food Justice
For reasons I'll explain at another time, I've spent the last few weeks alternating between a vegetarian (melted cheese is tempting - evil and possibly addictive) and a vegan diet. There have been...
View ArticleCreating An Inclusive Society
The Inclusion Center of Utah, formerly NCCJ Utah, hosts an annual adult residential retreat known as the Inclusion Summit. I had the opportunity to attend this year's summit, at Camp Tuttle in Big...
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