Many of you may have seen this bumper sticker floating around your city: So this leads me to the question, how low will gas go once Bush leaves the White House on January 20th? The national average right now is around $1.72 and dropping fast, at the current rate of reduction at $1.44 less per [...]
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Tomatoes and Terrorists
At this point I am sure that just about everyone has heard of the recent yanking of tomatoes off of our food shelfs and fast food joints. Normally the recall of one particular food item is newsworthy, but not particularly distressing. The problem is that this is not the first time our food stores and [...]
God damn it, my job is terrible.
Now hold on, this is not a post about how the person in the cube next to me stinks or how the copy machine constantly jams paper…no this post is about the almighty dollar crushing our souls. Now let me make things clear. I respect the need for our economy to grow and I understand [...]
How the Taste for Physical Gratifications is United in America to Love of Freedom and Attention to Pubilc Affairs
So I am going to steal a chapter from Alexis deTocqueville’s Democracy in America because I found it particularly enlightening: “When a democratic state turns to absolute monarchy, the activity that was before directed to public and to private affairs is all at once centered on the latter. The immediate consequence is, for some time, [...]
Won’t Someone Please Think of the Children?!
I just have to laugh at the recent dust-up over the Blue Boutique moving to a more residential area. Now as Rebecca Walsh pointed out in her column yesterday, Utah always seems to have the occasional “house of ill repute moving into a God fearing community” issue pop up every five years or so. Part [...]
Happy Consumerism Day!
I should not be surprised, after all I see the same stories on the news every year: a new balloon in the Macy’s Day Parade, long lines at the airport, and, of course, people acting like cows at stores around the county. Please tell me the logic of waking up at 5 in the morning, [...]
Election Wrap Up…Statewide Races
There are only a few statewide races I wish to touch on: Split of the Jordan School District, Heber City Referendum, Ogden Mayor, and Bountiful City Council. First off the splitting of the Jordan School District. I have said before that school districts are destined to split as the district, region, and state grow. I [...]
My Car is Better than Yours
Recently my car hit a minor milestone…100,000 miles. Now why would I waste my time even telling you this, well it is because it coincides with the recent strike of the United Auto Workers. Now this post is not about how the UAW is wrong in striking, nor is it to state that my 1999 [...]