November 17, 2003
More Beltway barbs
Check out this barely-literate letter to the editor of a Salt Lake City newspaper about plans to store nuclear waste in the Utah desert:
"If Washington, D.C., were a part of Utah, President Bush would be totally against it. He would probably do everything in his power to stop it from happening. What did Utah do to deserve this punishment?"
Like, totally. Maybe if more people chose to live in the land of 3.2 percent alcohol beer and more Mormon missionaries than you can shake a red pitchfork at, it might not be so attractive as a place to stash nuclear waste. Read the whole letter -- it's hilarious.
Posted by rj3 at November 17, 2003 11:13 AM
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The writer is from Moroni. Hee hee
Posted by: Chris at November 17, 2003 6:42 PM
'Cuse we all know how much bush cares about DC.
Posted by: Zoe at November 18, 2003 4:03 PM
Moroni is the angel that is perched atop the Mormon Temple near the Connecticut Avenue beltway exit, along with just about every other Mormon temple in the country. Pronounced "Mor-own-ey." (disappointing, I know). Utah is full of towns with weird names from the Book of Mormon, and they tend to be rural and incredibly conservative.
In the writer's defense, at least he gets that this is not solely a great economic boon to his state, despite his somewhat incoherent rant. I'm pleased to see something resembling environmental awareness coming out of a rural part of that state, as I'm pretty sure Moroni is not in the SLC metro area.
Posted by: Amanda at November 19, 2003 1:43 PM