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George Pyle: We know what we are. We’re just haggling over the price.

OK. That was funny in the 1930s, when the man in question was supposedly, but not really, Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Groucho Marx or someone else important enough to get away with spouting such sexist trash.

Now, not that I’ve looked that carefully, but it does seem that Utah is noticeably devoid of houses of prostitution, casinos, giant discount liquor stores or cannabis shops that don’t require a doctor’s note. Why might that be?

The Utah Legislature seems to be making short work of a bill that would, if passed into law, make it possible for the EnergySolutions facility over Tooele way to accept much more dangerous forms of radioactive waste, possibly including depleted uranium.