Thanks!

(If you're here to see my BP oil spill cartoons, go here.)

For today's page, I kept my column pretty short. I almost took a break, but if I can write two columns a week during the entire spring and summer I'll be pretty proud of myself. So I went ahead and wrote something, but saved room for three cartoons, a house editorial (that I wrote) and an impressive collection of letters to the editor.

I decided to pick a topic I had been thinking about for a while (even since before I had this job) and didn't require any research. So it was pretty easy.

'Thanks' goes a long way

The house editorial was a little difficult. To be honest, I haven't been paying enough attention to NCAA conference realignment, and what I did pay attention to I didn't really understand. But I amazingly was able to catch up and gather enough information to write an editorial to speak for the entire Daily Universe.

Looking for a rivalry

Now that Utah is going to the Pac-10, the BYU vs. Utah rivalry just isn't what it used to be.