Beehive to Provo's Tyler Jensen, a hero of the war in Afghanistan who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism. When a unit of Afghan and American troops was ambushed, the National Guardsman took over and led them to safety, exposing himself to enemy fire to pull a wounded soldier to safety. We are in awe of the courage of men like Tyler Jensen.

Buffalo Chip to Utah-based Sock Obama LLC for even considering the idea of a monkey sock-puppet named for the Democratic candidate for president. You're in trouble when the best thing to be said in your defense is that you might be utterly clueless. The other explanations slide rapidly downhill to stupidity, insensitivity and racism.

Beehive to Ben Markham, who graduated from BYU decades ago and has been serving an LDS church mission in Ghana. Along with Markham, five BYU students and their faculty advisor, Charles Harrell, share in this award for their work on a project to help bring electricity to villages in the African nation. Markham found a way to generate electricity from a playground merry-go-round. Kudos for an ingenious idea, and for the BYU contingent that constructed the devices using only resources available in a desperately poor country.

Buffalo Chip to former Eagle Mountain mayoral candidate Richard Culbertson and his wife, Kathleen, who pleaded guilty on Thursday to fraud and racketeering charges. The Culbertsons were charged in a mortgage fraud case in which they reportedly used their daughter's and son-in-law's names to buy a home. We're only slightly disappointed the scam was uncovered. Had Culbertson become mayor, he would have taken his place among a long line of Eagle Mountain kooks and crooks, and provided more fodder for our news columns.