Gary Younge in the British paper, The Guardian, quotes Mayor Rocky Anderson as saying: "I truly feel like we're in the middle of a Kafka novel sometimes," says Anderson, who was unaware of the no-alcohol policy and rescinded it on Thursday. "With a little bit of Taliban thrown in."

This article does a wonderful job of describing Utah as a bastion of bigotry and ignorance, or, in Rocky's words, the American home of the Taliban (read Mormons).

This commentary argues that if we poor backward Utahns just had more progressive leaders like Rocky Anderson, we might give up our religious bigotry and hatred of the modern world.

I just want to thank Rocky for all the hard work he is doing painting Utah as the armpit of America.

Todd Gray

San Diego