URGENT – Call for volunteers – Saturday afternoon with Rocky and the gang

| May 24, 2008

Here’s a quick note from Rocky Anderson about setting up for the Rally on Wednesday: …Also, we need volunteers! We plan to meet at noon on Saturday the 24th, at the Ibarra-Brito Centre, 438 East 200 South, to distribute posters and flyers and coordinate how they will be placed. If volunteers could please bring staplers [...]

Gov. Jesse Ventura punts Pat Buchanan on Gay Marriage

| May 24, 2008

I’m poaching this from Crooks and Liars this morning: On “Verdict” last night, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura made the perfect case as to why same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue and that the federal government has no right to tell you “who you can fall in love with.” I was just waiting for [...]

Wed, May 28th, 5:30pm – Peace and Human Rights Rally

| May 23, 2008

Also, we need volunteers! We plan to meet at noon on Saturday at the Ibarra-Brito Centre, 438 East 200 South, to distribute posters and flyers and coordinate how they will be placed. If volunteers could please bring staplers and/or tape, it would be very helpful. In addition, if you can, can you please send out [...]

Important Opportunity – screening and panel discussion of the film "New Year Baby"

| May 21, 2008

High Road for Human Rights Education Project is proud to join with KUED and the Salt Lake City Film Center for the screening and panel discussion of “New Year Baby” on Wednesday May 21, 2008 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.  Please join us at the University of Utah Union Theatre located at 200 South Central Campus [...]

BREAKING – Senator Ted Kennedy Rushed To Hospital – Symptoms of Stroke or Seisure

| May 17, 2008

Oh, no. Earlier today, Senator Kennedy was was rushed to the hospital with stroke symptoms. Later reports say that the Senator may have has some kind of severe seizure. First from CNN: Sen. Edward Kennedy was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital in Massachusetts Saturday morning, a well-informed, prominent Democratic source in that state told CNN. [...]

Utah Policy Daily kills Governor Cal Rampton in 1997, blames the state

| May 16, 2008

Hey, sometimes folks get it wrong, like the Utah Policy Daily did today with this silly nugget: Calvin Lewellyn Rampton Cal Rampton was one of Utah’s most popular governors, serving three terms from Jan. 4, 1965, to Jan. 3, 1977. He was preceded by George Dewey Clyde and succeeded by Scott M. Matheson. He died [...]

Obama wastes time explaining things to an old man and an idiot from Texas

| May 16, 2008

Obama better not make a habit of this sort of thing … If he gives a speech every time Bush or McCain say something stupid … well, I don’t think there’s enough time left before the sun goes super nova.

Dear Republican Fundie Nutjobs: Want to stop evolution? Combat Global Climate Change.

| May 16, 2008

Pollution: 1. bad for everyone or 2. a myth perpetrated by goofy liberals who want sissy things like clean air, clean water and something other than subdivisions to pass onto our children? Work with me here … according to the fundie nutjobs that talk to God three or four times a day (do you think [...]

Best Morning Ever … if you work at home

| May 16, 2008

Two things about today: 1. Sci-Fi Network 2. Firefly Marathon Telecommuting Kicks Ass!

Sen. Buttars' Head Explodes: California ban on same-sex marriage struck down

| May 15, 2008

Whoo Hooo! The “Homosexual Agenda” (or, for the sane, equal justice under the law) marches on. From CNN: California ban on same-sex marriage struck down WASHINGTON (CNN) — In a much-anticipated ruling issued Thursday, the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. California’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the [...]