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Here is my entry for JM Bell's contest to remake the Utah Republican Party button in a more realistic fashion : ---------------- Listening to: Wilco - Summer Teeth via FoxyTunes

So here it is half time of the NBA finals and I am about fed up to here -->_ with the ABC announcers are their sering man-crushes on Kobe fucking Bryant. There is not a single play where they aren't verbally drooling over him. So, what I need is suggestions for a 3 hour play list for the next play off game (scheduled for Thursday.) Please offer up your long list of selections. Hell, despite my dislike of everything bel canto , I might even listen to a complete Wagner Opera than this fucking drivel. Tannhäuser , anyone?

The SL Trib's Reader Advocate Connie Coyne, has a thoughtful exploration of the response the Trib gets on the immigration issues: "Currently considered a 'third rail' in politics - or a concern that can kill a political career - the issue of immigration is one that often draws emotional, sometimes irrational, public comment. Don't believe me? Take a look at the comments on Jessica Ravitz's story on the break room for cabbies at Salt Lake International Airport -- closed after controversy developed when Muslim cabbies were using the quiet room for daily prayers. Now they are out on the pavement for the five-times a day religious duty. And, no cabbies can use the little building with toilets and snack machines." ( Covering all angles of a simmering issue - Salt Lake Tribune ) She then goes on to delve into the hateful commentary that gets spewed in the comment section of stories that involve immigration. Xenophobia is alive and well, my friends.

If you are wondering why comment moderation has been turned on it was because I had to lay the smackdown on a racist commenter on the previous post. I immediately deleted his or her insensitive comment. All I have to say is if you are in my house you play by my rules. I had variations on the theme that I could have written, of course, and the best of them was "Hey ditto-head racist: get the fuck off my lawn." It was easier just to delete the comment.

"One of the most influential singer/songwriters of our time-- Bobby Goldsboro :" I wonder how all those memories of where Honey played and Honey lived played out in the most craptastic paintings I've ever seen in my life. (Then again, click on the links and you'll know that Mr. Goldsboro is living fully up to his potential.) Wow. I really thought I had seen it all. I feel fortunate to know that I hadn't until this moment.