It's not "complete and utter bullshit".

It's certainly more subtle than that, but an anomalous mayor of SLC doesn't disprove the proposition. Salt Lake has an unusually high proportion of 'gentiles', not typical of the rest of the state. The history of the state shows the intent and reality of Mormon control.

It's an interesting culture, but should probably be placed in a bell jar to avoid contaminating the rest of the environment. A full-faith Saint believes Really Wacky Shit, much more so than your average christian.

If "sex worker" is the PC euphemism for prostitute, what's "knowledge worker" the euphemism for?

Uh, actually MautheS - not sure why the plural.

A big shout of support for the Unity3D option - your choice of 3 programming/scripting languages: JavaScript (sort of), C#, and Python. Free download & use until/unless you get commercial. The included Mono project development environment is a pretty nice IDE, especially for the price (zero$). For a textbook, I'd suggest "Holistic Game Development with Unity" by Penny de Byl. There's a lot of Unity books, but they mostly tend to be very cookbook-y. De Byl has a cookbook side, but makes a pretty good effort to give the why behind the recipes.

how do you define 'climate' as opposed to 'weather'?

Can you say Brit Twit 10 times real fast?

Just a plug for the Scott Westerfeld series. Perhaps a bit fluffy, & maybe directed more at girls (my 13 year old daughter introduced them to me), but I found them a lot more engaging than The Hunger Games and Extras is perhaps prescient about the future of the Web...