Monthly Archives: March 2010
Death of the “News” Stand: When You Read About Sandra Bullock, Tiger Woods, The Terrorists Win
I like to read on the plane while I’m on the road either for pleasure or business. I don’t like talking to most strangers, I can’t sleep, it’s too loud to enjoy music, and eating just makes you fat. I … Continue reading
Online Reunions Put the Face Back in Your Book
One of the great underestimations of the power of the Internet is its ability to bring people together. While the same thing was said of TV in its heyday, I can say from experience that, unlike TV which merely gave … Continue reading
Iceland Volcano Erupts: Town I Visited in 2007 Evacuated
Iceland has so many volcanos, some don’t even have names. One of those is erupting now and it’s forced the evacuation of the town of Vik along the southeastern Icelandic coast. We drove to Vik in 2007 during our visit … Continue reading
Breaking Irony: Water Pumping Causes Huge Fissures; Private Greed Again Leads to Government Intervention
Someday in America, water will become a more precious substance than oil. In many parts of the world, it already is. Here in Utah, we’re finding out now what many places in the west, Arizona and Nevada among them, already … Continue reading
Oil Shale Study Doesn’t Consider Corporate, Political Irresponsibility
Research into the environmental impact of oil shale drilling is long overdue. So the EPA’s announcement that they are indeed studying this destructive and marginally-productive procedure is good news. Unfortunately, the EPA is not empowered to look into the economic … Continue reading
NASA Support Reveals Utah Republicans’ Two-Faces: Government Bad, No Government Worse
“Canceling the project now, in a time of high unemployment and after our nation has already invested heavily in the technology, is penny wise and pound foolish.” – Sen. Orrin Hatch on a plan to cut NASA’s budget and ATK … Continue reading
Texas History Book Fantasy: America Now Truly a Dream
Thomas Jefferson no longer included among writers influencing the nation’s intellectual origins. Jefferson, a deist who helped pioneer the legal theory of the separation of church and state, is not a model founder in the board’s judgment. Among the intellectual forerunners … Continue reading
Pew’s Future of Journalism Report: “News” As a Product; News As a Process
“I’m not a journalist. If I wanted to be a journalist, I would be Charlie Rose and bore the snot out of people and have fourteen people watching me.” - Glenn Beck, Fox “News” A new Pew Project for Excellence in … Continue reading
Kevin Garn Scandal: Utah’s Church, State, Corporate Media Out of Touch With Morality
“These are tough times. We, as legislators, live in a fishbowl down there. It’s hard to hide anything.” – Utah Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City Yup, “tough times”, Scotty. Remember the good, old days when you could take … Continue reading
“Call of the Wild” Vook Now on Sale Just in Time for Iditarod 2010
I imagine it took Jack London a while to write his classic “Call of the Wild.” But thanks to the invention of “Vooks”, I can claim co-authorship in a sort of twisted, 21st Century “I’m-a-slacker-looking-for-any-free-recognition-I-can-get” manner. My first video for … Continue reading
