Talk isn't cheap: A federal court jury in Salt Lake City awarded Procter & Gamble some $19 million for damage to its sales caused by four Amway distributors who passed along false rumors that P&G supported a satanic church. We understand why the soap and toothpaste giant would want to put to rest the urban legend about its venerable man-on-the-moon corporate symbol or similar vicious gossip. It is amazing, though, that people believe such tripe. See you at the Area 51 convention.

Give him a hand: You've got to love a product called Dump-A-Matic, which turns a pickup into a dump truck in seconds. And you've got to love the idea of the product's promoter, Chris Culp, a regular guy from Cedar City, who walked away from the Governor's Utah Economic Summit with a $100,000 prize for entrepreneurs to help get his fledgling product and business off the ground. We're not sure, though, that he should stick with D.A.M. Truck Tools as his company name. See previous item.

Better bus service: Disabled military veterans are rightly miffed that Utah Transit Authority's proposed new route system would not stop at the doors of the Salt Lake Veterans Affairs hospital, as current service does. Instead, patients using walkers, canes or wheelchairs would be expected to hike a block or more to a bus stop, which would be exposed to the elements. UTA can and should do better than that.