Thursday, September 21, 2006

Come share your opinion about guns - Opinion

Come share your opinion about guns - Opinion

Muy caca, senor. You write with childlike logic. Why don't you research the literature on both sides of the question and report what you find; while trying to maintain an objective mindset in the process. You will be surprised at what you find.

Come share your opinion about guns - Opinion

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Welcome to the different world of Utah (university, that is)

I went to the "U" a few years ago. The classes I took were held in WWII army barracks on the edge of Ft Douglas. Orson-Spencer was a pleasant walk from the Social Science building and there was room to park a car. Girls actually hid their bra straps back then, but then many of them had burned their bra for this or that. We were dumber then; we couldn't solve the world's problems with a letter to the editor, we were custodians of the land we lived on and worked on, tree huggers and SUWA hadn't been heard of, the Sierra club was limited to a few eccentric Californians who stomped around in Sequoia or Yosemite looking for causes to fight for, Ted Wilson and Rocky Anderson were selling watered down lemonade and left-over girl scout cookies on the street, and the population argued and debated over many of the same issues as today, but with dignity and respect. Now I read the Daily Chronic, shake my head, and wonder why I should continue to pay my alumni dues. Is the role model for the Chronic the New York Times? Is Lindsey Sine really the reincarnation of Pollyanna? Is the entire editorial staff engaged in a "survival" series of their own creation?