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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Do the Inmates Run the Asylum on the Utah Jazz?
Coaching Leadership, Player Leadership, and Inmates Running the Asylum By Ken K. Gourdin Salt Lake Tribune Columnist and Utah Jazz radio personality Gordon Monson recently ran a column about a telling conversation he had with Utah Jazz assistant coach Sidney … Continue reading
There’s no right to shoot at police officers
Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t: Cops Get Shot (At), and Some People Still Are Suspicious (or Critical) of Law Enforcement Officers When They Shoot Back By Ken K. Gourdin I just posted the following at SLTrib.com, in … Continue reading
Weber County S.O. Sgt. Nate Hutchinson Honored
A Conversation About Sgt. Nate Hutchinson of Weber Co. (Utah) S.O., the Matthew Stewart Case, and Some Finer Points of Law By Ken K. Gourdin Weber County, Utah Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Nate Hutchinson was honored by the National Law Enforcement … Continue reading
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Tagged Agent Jared Francom, marijuana, marijuana bust gone bad, marijuana legalization, Matthew David Stewart, Matthew Stewart, Nate Hutchinson, pot, pot bust gone bad, pot legalization, Sergeant Nate Hutchinson, Sgt. Nate Hutchinson, Weber County Sheriff’s Office, Weber-Morgan Metro Narcotics Strike Force
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Sin, Repentance, and Atonement
Some Thoughts on Good Thoughts and Bad Thoughts, and Good Deeds and Bad Deeds, and Zion and Babylon, and Sin and Repentance and the Atonement By Ken K. Gourdin I just posted the following at Mormon Dialogue & Discussion in … Continue reading
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Tagged atonement, bad thoughts, good thoughts, good thoughts and bad thoughts, mortal imperfections, mortality, primary residence in Zion, primary residence in Zion with a summer cottage in Babylon, repentance, repentance and the atonement, sin, sin and repentance, sin and the atonement, summer cottage in Babylon
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Laughing At Mormons
The Book of Mormon Musical: Laughing With Us, Laughing At Us, and Trying to Make Us Think You’re Doing the First When You’re Really Doing the Second By Ken K. Gourdin Now comes word that the Broadway smash hit, The … Continue reading
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Price of Fame
Thoughts on The Price of Fame By Ken K. Gourdin Citing two examples (Shia Labeouf and Alec Baldwin), Salt Lake Tribune movie critic and media writer Sean P. Means recently observed, “What these guys want are the upsides of fame … Continue reading
Commentary on the passing scene 
Did Matt Harpring Nearly Paralyze LeBron James?
I thought better of sending this after I wrote it but, nonetheless, I think the whole “If-you’d-sneezed-LeBron-would’ve-been-paralyzed” angle is too good to let die an anonymous death. So I thought I’d post it here. (Yeah, right! Like that’s gonna make … Continue reading →