Hair

You tell yourself you aren't going to do it.

You say you're better than that, you're stronger -- that no matter what, you simply refuse to sink to their level.

And then it happens. Somewhere between the good intentions and the naive promises, you end up going all negative with your campaigning.

I'm afraid we've reached that point with the current race we've got brewing here in the Top o' Utah.

Remember Harold Camping, the Christian radio broadcaster who made headlines after calculating that the world was going to end on May 21 of this year?

Well, he's at it again. And this time, he really means it.

Apparently, Mr. Camping is undeterred by the fact that seemingly nothing out of the ordinary happened on that particular spring day when all heaven was supposed to break loose. (Well, a Utah horse was euthanized that fateful Saturday -- the first fatality in the state linked to the Equine Herpes Virus -- but that hardly seems apocalyptic.) Nevertheless, Camping continues to insist that a spiritual Rapture did occur on May 21, and that the final game-over event -- wherein the world is utterly destroyed -- is still right on schedule for Oct. 21, 2011.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- With the help of a few bald co-workers, Edna Maggard says she will fight to survive cancer until the bitter end.

Maggard, 54, was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer on March 27 this year.

The Roy resident, who works in the Missions Support Branch of the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base, suffered through the winter with a bad chest cold before doctors finally discovered a mass on her right lung.

OGDEN -- You know you'll need one.

Why not help others the next time you get a haircut?

That's the message a new salon wants to send as the beauticians there get the word out about a fundraiser they're pursuing through the end of the month.

What's with the hair?

If I hear those four words just one more time, I swear I'm going to lose it.