Given its origins in the heyday of the Industrial Revolution, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that our Prussian-style school systems focus on a one-size-fits-all approach. The order of that day was to mass produce interchangeable cogs for factories, a job description that's becoming less and less common as our economy focuses on more […]
Filed under: Politics on April 7th, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Filed under: Politics, Pictures, Tender Lumplings on April 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now that the candidate filing period has closed, there's a clearer picture of what's going on with House 48, the district I live in. The race has made some headlines as LaVar "Elect Democrats and the Terrorists Win" Christensen has sought to challenge incumbent Sylvia Andersen to get his old seat back after being thoroughly […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on March 20th, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Not that long ago, I read an inspiring article written by Steve Olsen and posted over at The Utah Amicus. While I think he failed to support his thesis statement, the piece itself was a wake-up call to families to start taking charge of their affairs and stop depending on strangers to do it […]
Filed under: Politics, Church on February 19th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I want to extend a special thank you to Lyall Swim and The Sutherland Institute for hosting a blogger's breakfast this week. It's a rare thing indeed to get access to well-known pundits and higher-up elected officials and the conversation with Lt. Gov. Herbert was very enlightening. Here's what I took away from the dialog:
The […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah, Blogging on February 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It's no secret I've been in some high-profile fights with Mark Towner over his spamming ways. Remember the gun-for-hire e-mail he sent from Utahns for Public School? How about the threats to sue me? Maybe his blatant violations of FeedBlitz's ToS and their lack of interest in enforcing it? After all of that, […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on February 16th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Thanks to nearly a century of interference and bungling, the federal government has managed to make quite a mess of the telecommunications market. Not only was there rampant abuse of the patent system by men like Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1800s, the feds also made the Bell phone system a de jure monopoly […]
Filed under: Politics on February 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I would really like a legislature to go by without some sort of embarrassing technology bill being put forth. Despite my best hopes, it appears that this year isn’t it. Rep. Brad Daw has put forth a bill (largely written by the Chairman of SCO, a company that has it’s own disgraceful and embarrassing history) […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Utah on January 30th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It seems that there's been a bit of a stir lately as newspapers have flocked to stories highlighting Utah's somewhat… lenient rules on legislative gift-giving and campaign contributions. For those that don't know, here's the skinny: campaign money can be spent on anything you want and you only have to report, not refuse, gifts over […]
Filed under: Politics, Utah on January 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Now that we're past Christmas and on to 2008, I think it's time to really start thinking about who should be elected as our next chief executive. I usually don't put much into it. After all, the office of President has become grossly over-emphasized for decades. We both expect the President to do the job […]
Filed under: Politics on January 1st, 2008 | 10 Comments »
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