He Disgraces The State Of Utah, His Office, The Rule of Law, And The Legal Profession It’s hard to fathom that in deep red Utah where zero public and political accountability exists on the right, its Republican-led legislature just might clean up a mess — wreckage in the words of…

A Short Allegory Bibles in one hand and guns in the other, Vermin and the wife, the kids and all the rest gathered at the church house for the celebration. Preacher Michael led the congregation in fervent prayer and rousing song — Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching As To War, With…

John Curtis (R-UT), on abortion. Curtis is considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat Mitt Romney vacates next year. Conservative states and certain members of Congress, including the new House speaker, are doing everything imaginable to keep women second-class citizens, to prevent them from having bodily autonomy and making…

Human Rights Campaign’s recent ROUNDUP summarizes Speaker Mike Johnson’s decades-long devotion to merging his extremist visions of religion and government, his sanctimonious dedication to preventing, curtailing, and reversing the expansion of civil and human rights to historically marginalized groups and to dehumanizing LGBTQ+ people, restricting bodily autonomy, undermining democracy and…

“The problem is the human heart. It’s not guns.” Mike Johnson (R-LA) One year ago I posted, The Absurdity of Actual Events Is Eclipsing Parody. Parody vanished behind the election of Mike Johnson (R-LA) as House Speaker. The earth is no more than six-thousand years old, humans and dinosaurs roamed…

Thanks to the quality and magnitude of Trump’s corruption and criminality, those “gaps” are being closed. I have tried to think of anything even marginally constructive that came from the Trump presidency, without much success. On September 11, 2022, I posted Trump’s Attempted Destruction of America, In Numbers (“Trump’s Numbers”)…

Radicalized Depravity I’ve often wondered whether people who commit atrocities in god’s name would find other grounds to rationalize terrorizing and destroying innocent lives if belief in a supernatural weren’t a thing. …

A fictional but plausible account based on “true” events. I began writing this week’s post as a fictional — albeit plausible — story, based on actual events, of yet another sinister plot Trump would hatch with co-conspirators Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and other select members of the Freedom Caucus after…

Dominating the local news in Utah since Senator Mitt Romney announced he won’t seek reelection is Tim Ballard, founder of anti-human sex trafficking Operation Underground Railroad (“O.U.R.”). O.U.R. is an organization that raised tens of millions in donations ($42 million in 2021 alone) on its self-credited and -promoted successes and…