Category Archives: Science

Utah Constitutional Experts Dead Wrong


Perhaps I was too harsh with  the Republican US Senate primary candidates for Utah, Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater yesterday. You see, since Mike Lee states he is  a “constitutional expert with deep Utah roots,” I took him at his word … Continue reading

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Karl “Bush’s Brain” Has an Opinion


As you, the reader, have probably figured out by now, I am easily confused. For example, when folks a few years back referred to Karl Rove as Bush’s brain I was really perplexed. Since George acted on his “gut,” his … Continue reading

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Morgan “Pol Pot” wants to take on the Nazis


Oh for crying out loud I did it again and my new editor didn’t catch my second in several days Freudian Slip. “How could you misspell by name,” Morgan shrieked. “And what in heaven’s name does Pol Pot mean?” he … Continue reading

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Senator Hatch Wins Gold in Marathon and Sanctimonious Races


Just as he hung up it hit me. Last week I received in my, “word of the day,” newsletter, the word sanctimonious. It was a mouthful and I still cannot pronounce it correctly, but the word’s definition was essentially our senator’s persona; holier-than-thou, preachy, moralizing, smug, superior, hypocritical, and insincere. Continue reading

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Utah Politician Fibbed His Boy Scout Oath


Boy am I embarrassed. After Chipper read my editorial, “Philpot Doesn’t Stand a Chance,” he called me up and bitched me out because I failed to include Morgan Philpot’s law school degree as reason to vote for him. Seems Mr. … Continue reading

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Bush the Blogger


Things were looking pretty bleak for comedians, talk show hosts, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart and the Nielsen ratings when George Jr. left office. A huge source of their material dried up overnight. George, as his friends call him, slithered quietly … Continue reading

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No Nuclear Response


I wrote this Letter to the Editor of the Salt Lake Tribune after Bush and Cheney intimated that they would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons during the prelude to the Iraq War. Continue reading

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Murine and pediatric myocardial growth factor mRNA expression using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction


Biochem Mol Med. 1996 Feb;57(1):10-3. Murine and pediatric myocardial growth factor mRNA expression using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Shaddy RE, Zhang YL, White WL. The Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, … Continue reading

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Myocardial apoptosis in a heterotopic murine heart transplantation model of chronic rejection and graft vasculopathy


J Heart Lung Transplant. 1997 Feb;16(2):250-5. Myocardial apoptosis in a heterotopic murine heart transplantation model of chronic rejection and graft vasculopathy. White WL, Zhang YL, Shelby J, Trautman MS, Perkins SL, Hammond EH, Shaddy RE. Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake … Continue reading

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Defective production of interleukin-6 by monocytes: a possible mechanism underlying several host defense deficiencies of neonates


Pediatr Res. 1992 Jan;31(1):18-21. Defective production of interleukin-6 by monocytes: a possible mechanism underlying several host defense deficiencies of neonates. Schibler KR, Liechty KW, White WL, Rothstein G, Christensen RD. Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132. Abstract … Continue reading

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