The LDS Church has launched television advertising campaigns in various parts of the country that take up enough air time to trigger press coverage (which is the point, of course). Ron Wilson, the marketing manager of mormon.org told Channel 4 in Jacksonville, Fla. "People that do not know a Mormon might think they're polygamists, sexists and bigots. When reversed, with people who do know a Mormon, they don't believe any of those myths."

Channel 4 did the usual knucklehead-on-the-street interviews to find that, yes indeed, many northern Floridians admit "they don't know much about Mormonism beyond historical stories of polygamy and claims the religion is a cult."

Mike Lee's bizarro Constitution. A "progressive" (read, socialist) website, focused on the U.S. Constitution says that "one of the most bizarre claims" about the Constitution this election year comes from Senate candidate Mike Lee. Lee and a majority of Utah lawmakers believe the Constitution’s “enclave clause” gives Utah the power to grab federal lands. Text&History argues that the “enclave clause” does not apply to the vast majority of federal lands in Utah, something the courts established long ago: "Utah never had the chance to consent to federal control over these lands because they were property of the U.S. government before Utah’s statehood."

Government interference with free enterprise. Utah leaders from governor to the congressional delegation will urge visiting U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to continue the legal fight against a private nuclear-waste storage site in Skull Valley.

Meanwhile, an attorney for the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes, who just want to do their Capitalist bit by hosting the nuke waste, says appealing a recent ruling is a frivolous waste of taxpayer money.

Join the hue and cry. You can give Salazar your two cents worth on wasting Utah at the America's Great Outdoors Initiative listening session today at 10 a.m. at the Radission Hotel downtown Salt Lake City.

"Milquetoast?" Ouch. Radio wonks, are underwhelmed by KNRS's selection of Rod Arquette to fill in the local slot in its talkjock lineup as KSL refugee Sean Hannity Show will join KNRS in October. Types one: "Color me unimpressed."