Someone recently told me that the yearly production of “Saturday’s Voyeur” closed down. They were either misinformed or someone else has adopted the format and is doing so very effectively. Or The Salt Tribune has molded the format into its editing process.
Stories about Dallin Oaks solution to the lack of affordable housing, full jails, homelessness, a dying lake and the water crisis is to have even more kids. Spot on. And now Utah’s well-spoken Gov. Spencer Cox stuttering and fumbling with the letters in the alphabet. Maybe if he doesn’t say the letters, he can pretend they don’t exist.
I wonder if we’ll see a legislative bill during the next session that bans “those letters” from all school materials.
Nothing is beyond the imaginations of the managers of the current edition of “Saturday’s Voyeur.” Who wrote this stuff? The production managers, writers and editors should get raises and be hailed for outlandishness and audacity. Stand up, slapstick comedy at its best.
Throw in some really insane talk of a church accumulating $102,000,000,000 and book bans and developers fighting for the development rights to all that new shorefront property because all those additional babies will need somewhere to live and somehow it just seems to become a little less funny when you realize this is not a comedy, but how Utah does business. It is The Utah Way. Hmmmm.
Comedy or tragedy? Or both? When does the ridiculous become so ridiculous that it stops being funny?
Bernie Hart, Salt Lake City
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