Snaps & Slaps

SLAP: Idaho Values Alliance 

Question: How do you keep the gay agenda from spreading into your wholesome, vaguely pistol-shaped state? Why, threaten a boycott until some poor store managers pull all of the gay marriage greeting cards out of your local Hallmark card stores! That way people celebrating gay weddings can’t get them and you can feel better knowing that the cards aren’t lurking in the aisles waiting to recruit your children with their pictures of two tuxedos standing side by side. It’s great when anti-gay groups write the satire for us.

SNAP: Dine O’Round

Ahh, autumn in Salt Lake City: time of the Farmers Market, chilly air, russet leaves and Dine O’Round. Because, what better way is there to enjoy the start of the colder months than treating yourself to a more than reasonably priced lunch ($10) or dinner ($15-30) at a number of posh city eateries? Dine O’Round keeps our palates happy and our city classy, and we love this time of year all the more for it.

SLAP: St. Paul Police

Yeah, we know it isn’t exactly local, but we at QSaltLake love the First Amendment, which guarantees Americans the right to a free press. So don’t love it when police arrest journalists who are just doing their job, as the peace officers in Minnesota did when Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and two of her producers tried to report on protesters at the Republican National Convention. Despite the fact that all three had press passes and were clearly not doing anything illegal the producers were charged with felony riot charges. Goodman, who tried to question police about the arrests, was charged with obstruction. We won’t even go into the protesters who were manhandled or the Associated Press photographer who was also arrested. We at QSaltLake also love this nation’s hardworking police, and we understand that sometimes mistakes happen. However, these arrests were far from understandable or, in our opinion, mistaken. Something has gone very, troublingly wrong in St. Paul. And all freedom-loving Americans should pay very close attention to this case. For more information visit democracynow.org.