History column: Swordplay on a Salt Lake City square in 1886 – Salt Lake Tribune (tags: SaltLake Fencing)
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Chicago Park District may open 5 beaches for surfing :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State (tags: Chicago Surfing) Census: Utah is short on women – Salt Lake Tribune (tags: SaltLake) NOM NOM NOM 4 FUD (tags: LOLcats)
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… or find yourself drunk, high, half nekkid, and screaming at people in Sugar House Park. The latter path is the one I’d have taken if I’d stayed on in Salt Lake instead of moving away. Absence of pants nets charges for man in Sugar House Park – Salt Lake Tribune Court documents accuse the 36-year-old of hiding in the park and jumping out and scaring women and bicyclists. At one point, the documents say, he stood in a roadway, pulled down his shorts and began screaming at cars while naked from the waist down. Police arrived to find him…
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Simply Left Behind: Note To Dead Old White Guy: The Non-Rapturist's Guide To The Galaxy Cheney, plus graphic of infamous Bin Laden presidential daily briefing (tags: Cheney binladen 911 Bush Failure)
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The Changing Attitude Blog: Nigerian bishop not Jamaican homophobe threatens UK gay activist (tags: GayClergy anglican) Review: Untrained twentysomethings go to the moon in Moonlight Mile Need a new fave SF show (tags: ScienceFiction) Weekend Galimaufry – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 1964 | Newstalgia Need to listen on desktop (tags: music BBC)
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Thanks to @DailyHerald, here’s a useful resource for contacting Illinois legislators. Some use their personal email addresses, and there’s no single state IL email domain? Good government FAIL. Daily Herald | How to contact your lawmakers Leaders Rep. Michael Madigan House speaker, 22nd District Springfield office: 217 782-5350 Chicago office: 773 581-8000 E-mail: mmadigan@hds.ilga.gov Fax preferred: 773 581-9414 Sen. John Cullerton Senate president, 6th District Springfield office: 782-2728 Chicago office: 773 883-0770 E-mail: john@senatorcullerton.com Rep. Tom Cross House GOP leader, 84th District Springfield office: 217 782-1331 Plainfield office: 815 254-0000 E-mail: tom@tomcross.com Sen. Christine Radogno Senate GOP leader, 41st District…
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Leonard Nimoy: 'Left, then back to center': The Swamp (tags: StarTrek) Is Congress the smoking gun behind Second Life's turnaround on adult content? – Massively (tags: SecondLife)
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The Hunt For Gollum Movie (tags: LOTR)
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Street Prophets: We do not need any more brain-dead Christians (tags: ELCA) SLC dedicates Wasatch Hollow open space area – Salt Lake Tribune (tags: SaltLake)
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It would piss you off, right? I know it would really make me angry if that happened to my mom, but I can’t check because the information is hidden behind a registration wall AND a “member in good standing/temple recommend number” wall. Because when she was alive, she was really horrified by the idea that everyone in her family had been baptized against their will, after they died, and that someday she would, too. Well, it’s apparently happened to President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. I think it’s a terrible breach of spiritual protocol, the church’s own supposedly “hard and…