I recently read the book Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank. I took the book with me when I went to visit my family during Christmas this past December, and my parents, upon seeing the title, asked, “Why are you reading that? You’re too old to serve in the...
read moreWe generally have somewhere between 60 and 90 opportunities in life to create New Year’s resolutions. Now, I do realize that you are reading this column in February of 2010, which is rather late in the year to be writing about New Year’s resolutions. So I’ve obviously already broken my personal New Year’s resolution: “Turn...
read moreNaughty and nice. Good and bad. Black and white. Up and down. God and Satan. North and south. Left and right. Glenn Beck and common sense. Sarah Palin and literacy. Our world is full of opposites. In fact, a great philosopher — I believe it was Aristotle — once said: “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like...
read moreEDITOR’S NOTE: This column was printed in an earlier edition of QSaltLake, and is being reprinted for the pet issue. I just so happen to be writing this column on the very day my dog celebrates his ninth birthday. Now for those out there who are of the opinion that “facts” should “matter,” I’ll admit that today isn’t...
read moreWARNING: The following column if full of expletives and inappropriate language. If you are the type of person who is offended by curse words, then you may want to watch a rerun of Dancing with the Stars instead. Or, you can fuck yourself. Listen up, faggots. The late George Carlin once said that there are seven words which cannot...
read moreQSaltLake Readers: I apologize for failing to keep my end of the bargain. When I started writing for QSaltLake over two years ago, I promised to write moderately entertaining and insightful columns in every issue, and you in exchange promised to not sue me for slander and libel, or for lifting whole paragraphs from Wikipedia....
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