Category Archives: Blogging the Rambler

Quick note that Jim Hutchins, fanatical runner and professor of health sciences at Weber State University, just posted a blog (click!)  on the Pulitzer Prize Winning Huffington Post about evolution and professors and so on. Not sure if this means we now … Read More

Interesting article making the rounds (click) with an email that the Mitt Romney campaign sent out asking for big money donations in exchange for “access” to the future president. The tone of the story is that Mitt is already selling … Read More

Saw a page on Facebook the other day that got me thinking. You can see it here (click) but what it does is advocate for an American soldier, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, taken as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan in 2009. … Read More

The Weber County Sheriff has the most fun of any police agency I know, judging by their Facebook posts. If you aren’t friends with them, you need to be. It will brighten your day. Several recent examples, which really need no … Read More

The editor just sent a note to us reporters doing stories on candidates in the coming general election. It seems many of those candidates are talking about how they’re standing boldly to protect Hill Air Force Base from closure, blaming … Read More

George Will is hardly a liberal. That’s why his argument (click!) , which is also my argument, that  drugs need to be legalized, is so compelling. It is a distinctly conservative argument. The war on drugs is enormously expensive. Balance … Read More

Got a press release from the Census Bureau today saying that state tax revenues are up, indicating that the national recovery continues, albeit slowly. Utah is seeing unemployment below 6 percent, and the Legislature didn’t have to do any draconian … Read More

Since I am regularly accused of being liberal –  me? — I want to take a moment to pass on one of my favorite web sites: Glen Kessler’s “The Fact Checker” at the Washington Post. Mr. Kessler regularly checks “facts” … Read More

OK, so in that training with the Roy Police I did last week we were run through a scenario where the responding officer shoots someone in the back. It sounds unsporting, but we were told it was OK, and justified, … Read More