I’ll be honest: just thinking about my experience at Korea House, a local Korean cuisine eatery, is making me salivate. Faintly, I can feel the spicy barbecue that I had for lunch, and it’s making me hungry. Alas, at the late hour that I’m drafting this, and with the snow falling outside, it is unlikely that […]
Is a 2nd Utah elected official under investigation by the FBI?
February 21, 2013 by
Could another Utah state official be under investigation by the FBI? The FBI investigation into Utah’s Attorney General John Swallow has been well documented in recent weeks (see here, here, here, and here, Also, here and here). Swallow may not be the only elected official in state government under FBI investigation. An investigation into Lt. […]
Why didn’t Shurtleff tell voters what he knew about Swallow before the election?
February 14, 2013 by
In the days before the general election in 2012, Mark Shurtleff was putting out fires around town. His protege, John Swallow, was on track to win the election against Democrat Dee Smith, as Shurtleff and Swallow had long-planned, but cracks were appearing in the otherwise flawless campaign strategy. Shurtleff, his legacy on the line in […]
Swallow swallows his words and Powers’ memory gets less “hazy”
February 13, 2013 by
Every week seems to bring a new revelation about John Swallow’s pre-election activities. His supporters (all three of them) keep saying to wait until the evidence gets out, but the way I see it, it’s only getting worse. I don’t know how you explain it all away. Forget about the facts. Never mind claims that Swallow tried […]
For Lincoln’s birthday, a book recommendation: Crisis of the House Divided by Harry Jaffa
February 12, 2013 by
Today is Lincoln’s birthday. Might I suggest a book on the man who may have been our greatest president? It might be said of Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809, that if he had not existed, we would have needed to invent him. With very rare exception, no person in American political history […]
Restaurant Review: Cafe Madrid
February 8, 2013 by
I know it’s been a while since I’ve put up one of these, and I really have no excuse. I’ve not stopped eating around at great restaurants…I’ve just been slack in telling you about them. That ends today. And for one good reason: I had a meal so incredibly AWESOME that to not say something […]
Review | HHhH by Laurent Binet
February 7, 2013 by
HHhH may be one of the most intriguing novels I have read in recent memory. Translated from French, its title is based on a German sentence: “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich”, or “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”. It is the story of the 1942 attack in Prague on Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most dangerous men in […]
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