Salt City Sinner

Our merciless, cruel God occasionally throws us a twist so depraved, so delicious that it could not possibly come from fiction. May I present, in his own words, Republican Presidential Candidate and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman: "My hair was Rod Stewart shaggy. I wouldn't wear anything but super skinny jeans. I ended up leaving high school a bit short of graduation to play with a band called Wizard." NPR goes behind the music to uncover the sordid past of Wizard: A lot of the band's early gigs came at youth-oriented music "stomps," sponsored by the Mormon church. "We knew we couldn't sing certain songs, so we'd have to change the words to them," bass player Eric Malmquist said. "We'd play Eric Clapton's 'Cocaine.' But instead of singing 'cocaine,' which you probably wouldn't do in church, we'd change the word to propane." Unfortunately, Wizard's hard-rocking odes to clea...

This is adorable, Zoe Pollack has discovered the phrase "Jack Mormon" and thinks she has gleaned a major insight to Huntsman's persona. A profile by Mark Hemingwey quoth : It's not a pejorative term, but in some select contexts Jack Mormon is not exactly a compliment. It’s often shorthand for “Mormon who drinks alcohol.” Jack Mormon may refer to fully lapsed or inactive members more often than not, though the definition is highly fungible. That's a fair term, I guess. "Lapsed Catholic" and "Jack Mormon" have a lot of common ground, I think.