Author: Jesse

It All Comes Together: Mark Towner Was Hired by PCE, Probably to Send Spam 8

It All Comes Together: Mark Towner Was Hired by PCE, Probably to Send Spam

With the excellent detective work from around the bloghive (hat tips to Bob Aagard, Mata Hari (twice!), Utah Conservative and a shall-remain-nameless e-mailer), the picture has become clear: Mark Towner sent the now-infamous "Voucher News" e-mail AND has been paid...

More Mark Towner Oddities 4

More Mark Towner Oddities

Witness the following: Why would UtahnsForPublicSchool.com (no S at the end) have a directory on it named thespyglass? And isn't a funny coincidence that the e-mail originated from ssl-mail.com, the same site that services Mark's sent.com e-mail address? Something in...

Was Mark Towner Behind the Voucher News E-mail? 2

Was Mark Towner Behind the Voucher News E-mail?

That depends on who you talk to. It seems that a fair number of Utah bloggers (like Marshall over at Wasatch Watcher) believe it to be so. The Deseret News reported on the deceptive spam e-mail in today's edition. What's...

Medic! (Or, Why does health care cost so dang much?) 7

Medic! (Or, Why does health care cost so dang much?)

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the costs of medical care. I first noticed the trend with an op-ed by Steve Olsen in the Standard Examiner last month and the resultant follow-up from The Deseret Spectacle. Since then,...

The Best Entertainment on TV 6

The Best Entertainment on TV

Where does it come from? Probably this guy: (source) Yes, a certain Mr. Alton Brown. Anyone who's caught more than a few episodes of his landmark TV show, Good Eats, knows what I'm talking about. It's part sketch comedy, part...

Spam Wars: Legislative Interest 4

Spam Wars: Legislative Interest

Last night I had the chance to meet with Sen. Niederhauser after the meeting of the Government Competition and Privatization Subcommittee. (You can read more on the subcommittee meeting here.) While talking to him, I brought up the anti-spam law...

For Whom the Voucher Polls 10

For Whom the Voucher Polls

There's nothing a politico loves more than a poll backing up his or her position with popular support from the voting public. We're constantly inundated with "the people want this" and "the people want that" in an attend to get...

One-Solution Issues and Political Bundling 6

One-Solution Issues and Political Bundling

After the discussion recently had on A Liberal Mormon concerning Social Justice, I've been thinking a lot about what I call "political bundling". "Political bundling" is the practice of making a particular issue or problem inseparable from one of its...

Restaurant Roundup: Omaha, NE 3

Restaurant Roundup: Omaha, NE

Going out of town can sometimes be a pain in the rear. I spent the 12th through 16th in fabulous Omaha, coming back to a desk full of more work than I knew what to do with. This was no...