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- News, City Weekly REWIND April 7, 2025
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FLASHBACK 2011: John Rasmuson sorts out differing breeds of activism.
Chicken Clique
- Activists are idealistic change agents who are willing to sacrifice for what they believe in. Pretenders are primarily interested in social status.
- News, Opinion January 15, 2025
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2024's words of the year suggest that a 'supermajority' of online 'brats' may be experiencing 'brain rot.'
Opinion
- This gem of a poem by Emily Dickinson is a good place to start. Reading it draws attention to the nature of language and the use-it-or-lose-it principle that tends to shape a word's lifespan.
- News, Opinion October 23, 2024
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Goodbye Mormon cricket, hello praying mantis—Utah's insect neighbors are bellwethers for change.
Opinion
- I was startled. A praying mantis materialized in the flowers, inches from my hand. I was watering with a hose, and the big bug made its way gingerly up a nearby fence to escape the water.
- News, Opinion September 4, 2024
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Hat fashion and etiquette may never recover from the MAGA movement.
Opinion
- "(The preacher) invited the audience to remove their hats and turned his voice to God. 'Lord, help us to make America great again,' he prayed."—McKay Coppins, The Atlantic
- News, Opinion May 15, 2024
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Utah's early pickleball evangelizers paved the way for the fast-growing sport.
Opinion
- I first hit pickleballs in Wyoming in 2010. I was in the Sheridan YMCA gym, where two courts had been delineated on the floor in red tape.
- News, Opinion February 21, 2024
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Books are hip for both decorating and political grandstanding, but they're even better if you read them.
Opinion
- I have friends who renovated their condo just before the COVID pandemic began
- News, Opinion December 27, 2023
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Rizz up your grammar with 2023's 'words of the year'
Opinion
- In awarding this year's Nobel Literature Prize to Jon Fosse, the Nobel committee cited the Norwegian writer's "sensitive language that probes the limits of words."
- News, Opinion August 16, 2023
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Lace up your shoes—whatever the brand—and seize the day
Opinion
- Not since reading John Keats' and Percy Shelley's iconic poems in college had I given a moment's thought to an ode.
- News, Opinion May 17, 2023
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A 'Class of '63' alum on 60 years of life since leaving Salt Lake City's Highland High School
Opinion
- News, Opinion March 15, 2023
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One 'died-in-the-wool' boomer's tricks for keeping up with Gen Z and millennial evolution of the English language.
Rampant Ussification
- The column, which has run for years, draws on his Greek lineage, insider knowledge of all things Utah and the writer's no-holds-barred "saltussy.
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