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Second Thoughts for July 2, 2012

6/27/2012

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  • If last week’s primary election in Utah was any indication, tea party supporters are searching for a new beverage.
  • A party that uses the word “tea” was never a good fit for Utah, anyway. The Diet Coke party, now that’s something a lot of folks around here could get behind.

  • Last week is a big one for the nation’s highest court. Immigration, juvenile justice, health care — these are the kinds of decisions we elected them to make. Oh wait …

  • I don’t want to imply the court is arrogant, but it was a little much when the justices ended their session by announcing the winner of The Bachelor.

  • In another decision last week, the court ruled it unconstitutional to punish someone for lying about his or her military record. The majority opinion was written by Gen. Anthony Kennedy.

  • After years of hearing the public clamor for a college football playoff system, the BCS last week announced it had come up with a novel new idea — a college football playoff system!

  • Actually, when they heard Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff was getting ready to sue them over the U of U not having a chance at the title game a few years ago, they knew the jig was up.

  • Of course, the BCS will choose the playoff teams with a complicated formula involving computers, tarot cards and pig entrails. But at least it’s a step in the right direction.

  • Utahns are preparing to take some well-deserved time off this week from fighting out-of-control wildfires all over the state. Many of them plan to use the time off to light incendiary devices in their back yards.

  • The House voted last week to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Interesting word, contempt. With the latest polls showing Congress with only a 17.8 percent approval rating, it would appear the nation’s contempt lies elsewhere.

  • In fact, the latest negative political ads make it clear you have to have a good deal of contempt just to get elected to office.

  • The city of Stockton, Calif., declared bankruptcy last week. Residents knew they were in trouble when they saw city officials hanging out in front of a payday lender, changing into various disguises to see if they could avoid being rejected again and again.


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