News is tediously slow in all the Utah media, as we all retreat from the results of Utah's 2010 General Election. Here, however, are a couple of interesting post-election Northern Utah print media stories, which nevertheless caught your blogmeister's attention this morning:
1) The Salt Lake Tribune reports this morning that current House Speaker David Clark has suffered serious blowback from his heavily reported act of cheering on former Utah legislator (and self-admitted child molester) Kevin Garn, and has now been bumped from his House Leadership seat by a more prim and proper Utah County Relief Society Lady:
• Lockhart is first woman to become House speakerA woman in the Utah legislative leadershipGood Ole Boyz Club? Gasp! Go figure.
2) And on the newspaper "sexual titillation front" don't miss today's Standard-Examiner blockbuster story, reporting that government funded scientific research reveals (to our utter amazement) that sexually experimental pre-teens tend to expand their sexual experimentation, as they grow older:
• Study: Oral sex makes intercourse likelier for teensWell... D'oh! And we needed a government-funded scientific study to learn that?
That's it for now gentle readers. It's been a little quiet around here lately... so "don't be strangers" however, capice?
Update 11/5/10 11:00 p.m.: The SLTrib has an informative followup story on House Speaker Clark's ouster:
• Lockhart united legislators fed up with Clark’s heavy hand, insiders say