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A Rest Stop Development: Nekkid Man at Scenic Viewpoint

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts, Only in Utah...

Here’s a way to get yourself noticed: strip and jump in front of cars. In remote eastern Utah. On a Sunday.
Honk! Scenic view included nude man, police say - Salt Lake Tribune
Police in eastern Utah arrested a naked man they say was jumping in front of cars on a highway.
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LTTE: Polygamy From A Modern Girl’s Perspective

May 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Only in Utah...

The Salt Lake Trib’s letters to the editor often contain some interesting insights into life in Utah; I haven’t lived there for more than 30 years, and I feel I know the place because I can read the opinions of the cranks and the apologists and the activists and the completely whacked-out religious nutcases.
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Vatican: LDS Church’s Practice “Detrimental”

May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts, Only in Utah..., Religion

Catholic bishops told to withhold parish information from Mormons - Salt Lake Tribune
The Vatican letter calls LDS baptisms for the dead a “detrimental practice” and directs each Catholic diocesan bishop “not to cooperate with the erroneous practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” CNS reported.
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Buttars Up

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Mini-Posts, Only in Utah..., Politics, Schmolitics

Buttars wins GOP nomination - Salt Lake Tribune
Utah State Senator Chris Buttars just barely makes it past the GOP nominating convention - avoiding a runoff primary by one (spoiled) ballot.  Ew.

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Unnatural Natural Women

April 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Only in Utah...

Say what you like about the religion, it’s not natural for women’s faces to be this lean. Even for nursing mothers, these women look like they’re not getting enough to eat. The one in the middle is becoming famous on Flickr for that monobrow, by the way. Their body language is weirdly out of [...]

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