Entries Tagged as 'Politics'

February 5, 2008

First Pick, Second Pick

Today is Super Tuesday, the day on which residents of Utah and 23 other states will go to the polls. Before you cast your vote today, please complete the following exercise:
1. Please rank the candidates in order of your preference. Who is your 1st pick? Who is your 2nd pick? Who is 3rd? etc..
2. Does [...]

April 19, 2007

Seven ways the Internet is changing politics

1. Last week I attended the opening event of Phil Burns’s new company Politic2.0, a platform for communication between politicians and citizens. When I first heard about the event, I was skeptical that it would be anything more than the buzz-word-ification of another niche, but by the end of the event I was really [...]

March 16, 2007

Big milestone for CP80 but still many detractors

It was a big week for CP80, the anti-pornography group led by Ralph Yarro. The Utah legislature unanimously passed, and Governor Huntsman signed, a non-binding resolution calling on the U.S. government to do something about Internet pornography. The resolution calls on the federal government to “take action to help stop children and employees [...]

June 24, 2006

Mitt Romney and Sleep

It seems a bit odd to write about two disparate topics here, but someone pointed me to an interview of Mitt Romney on the Charlie Rose show, and I ended up watching the second half of the show about sleep. Both segments were very good.
Mitt Romney talked about issues such as amending the Constitution [...]