Saturday was the Salt Lake County Republican Party’s organizing convention. I attended as a delegate and also ran for one of thirty spots on the State Central Committee of the Utah Republican Party. As conventions go, this one was pretty blase. We were electing leadership, but none of the races were expected to be close, […]
Murder? The Gosnell trial and media silence
April 15, 2013 by
If you’ve not heard about Gosnell, I recommend you google it. According to Wikipedia (I know, the lazy man’s research tool): Kermit Barron Gosnell is an American medical doctor who ran two women’s health clinics in Philadelphia between 1972 and 2011, and as of April 2013, is on trial for first and third degree murder, […]
Can idealism save the Grand Old Party?
April 10, 2013 by
I is for idealism, which may very much be the future of the GOP, if it is to regain relevancy. For 37 years, Ron Paul was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Largely ineffective there, he earned the nickname Dr. No for his unwillingness to vote for government spending. It wasn’t until […]
G is for “greatest British peacetime prime minister”
April 8, 2013 by
Unless you’ve been under a rock today, you’ve heard the news that Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, has died. She was eulogized by current U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron as “the greatest British peacetime prime minister.” Rest in peace, Margaret Thatcher. Since I’m no expert on Britain’s “Iron Lady,” here’s a few hits from […]
Fear on the rise in our literature
April 6, 2013 by
Could we be using fewer words associated with happiness and joy and more associated with fear in recent decades? With Google digitization of hundreds of years of literature, British anthropologists are mapping the rise and fall of “emotion” words through history, says an NPR story. This effort began simply with lists of “emotion” words: 146 […]
Review | The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
April 5, 2013 by
In the author’s note to The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee notes that “Cancer is not one disease, but many diseases.” It anticipates Mukherjee’s history, a look at cancer starting in the ages and proceeding forward to the modern-day. It’s a 4,000 year history, and Mukherjee tells it well. The tale, […]
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