Blogmo

What is going on? Celebrities are dropping like flies these days (I say flies because they thrive on waste, carry germs, and spit on you while looking for a meal). That’s four celebrities in about one week. Oh well.

In order of expiration: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays.

Currently, the LDS Church and BYU are mired in the hubbub over Vice President Dick Cheney’s scheduled commencement address later this month. The SL Tribune’s Rebecca Walsh wrote a nasty column about it, to which I responded with this letter to the editor, published today. It has caused a good deal of consternation on the Trib’s website. Click on the links in this post to check it out.

Read the LDS Church’s reponse to her column as well. The Tribune also reported on the response.

Five years ago

Yesterday, a freak thunderstorm barrelled through the Wasatch Front, smashing up south Provo in Utah County and East Millcreek in Salt Lake. The damage was horrific: trees toppled through homes and cars, airplanes at the Provo airport were tossed about like toys, and flashes of lightning made my work computer turn off all by itself.

What amazes about this storm was how its path of destruction travelled in narrowly confined areas. One street would look like a war zone, while the next block over would look as tranquil as a Norman Rockwell painting, minus Cub Scouts and those hip 1940′s fashions. (Now, don’t email me about the predictible nature of microbursts. Localized damage is their gig, I know. A fellow can still awe over Mother Nature’s tantrums, can he not?)