The Tribune editorial page tackled poop in its various forms today.

First, it denounced the bullcrap Rep. Mike Noel's been throwing at environmentalists.

Noel considers the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance his enemy, and he is the leader of a witch hunt to prove the nonprofit environmental organization guilty by its association with two former SUWA officials who have been convicted of securities fraud. (The SEC found no SUWA involvement.) ...

The ridiculous demand, in the form of a letter that has no legal force, was backed, during a confrontational news conference called by Noel, by the threat of a subpoena or request of an attorney general investigation.

Noel's intensified anti-environmentalist high jinks, I have to note, coincide with his financial involvement, along with Rep. Aaron Tilton, to build nuke power plants near Green River and make piles of money.

Then the Tribune op-ed writers took on baby poop. Despite the threat of another outbreak of a waterborne parasite — nearly 2,000 cases of diarrhea last year — the state Health Department will allow babies in tight diapers back in public pools. The Trib opinionators are astounded with this willful ignorance of infant plumbing.

...Nothing, short of a cork or maybe duct tape, will keep babies from pooping in pools.

Environmentalists have floated a similar solution for Noel's mouth.