Never underestimate the love the Beehive State has for the "Twilight" phenomenon. In fact, there's evidence to suggest that Utah's passion for LDS author Stephenie Meyer's best-selling, gothic romance tales may rival that shared between the two lead characters, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen.

A very strange thing happened at Toyota Park during Saturday's Eastern Conference final, and it had nothing to do with Real Salt Lake advancing to the MLS Cup despite being the last seed in the playoffs.

If ever you've felt the need to constantly count the syllables of your speech, or deconstruct your food before you eat it, or maybe had the fear that your life is really a secretly constructed reality show, ?la "The Truman Show," you are not alone.

The news that Lou Dobbs has departed CNN certainly came as no great surprise last week. But the way it was delivered dealt another blow to the credibility of both the man and the network.

Not too many years ago, this newspaper was filled with stories about how journalists and other advocates of government accountability were urging the Utah System of Higher Education to be public about the names of finalists whenever a search was on for a new college or university president.

Hugh Nibley coped with the divided sense of self that minorities often experience in the larger society. A special coded language is one coping mechanism minorities use.