“Passports? We don’t want no stinkin’ passports!”

I used to be a bit proud to live, work and vote in Colorado. Now I’m not so sure.
One or two more of those proverbial straws on this camel’s back, and I just may retire to rural Oklahoma and mellow out with my cousins there.

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The face of modern Islam?

As discussed by the Cranky Prof, Sydney, Australia-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali has made the most recent widely-published pronouncement that Islam considers men to be ungovernable beasts who will rape unless women cover themselves in cloth from head to foot at all times.
I don’t know enough about Islam to put this in context.  It’s definitely [...]

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Just how low can they go?

Story from today’s Rocky Mountain News, titled “Ads pit disabled vet against disabled vet.” I could proclaim this the utter gutter of political campaigning. But not so fast: they have another week to go before the election. God knows what other slimy cards are just about to be pulled out from [...]

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Our ever-vigilant legislature leaves no toilet unprotected

In Colorado this summer you couldn’t miss the loud and frantic flailings of our fine elected officials in the General Assembly as they reacted to the “immigration crisis.” They convened in special session and rushed through several laws intended to cure the rampant welfare fraud and other gross impositions on the body politic [...]

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“Who would Jesus disenfranchise?”

The very apt question of a commenter on this eloquent essay by George in Denver.

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Sometimes it’s really a village

Officially it’s a big city, but like all cities it’s more like a collection of villages. Case in point, from the October 2006 edition of Insight, published for and about employees of the City and County of Denver:
The quick thinking actions and caring of Public Works Department employees Bob Baca and Teresa Maestas played [...]

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Honoring the subconscious

I hope “subconscious” is the right word. I’m obviously no expert on the workings of the human brain although I’m always grateful that mine works at all. I’m sitting here at 6:20 on a Saturday morning sipping my second cup of coffee and marveling at what just happened here.

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Blushing with shame

Mike Keefe’s editorial cartoon in today’s Denver Post. So true. So sad. If your browser isn’t displaying this optimally, the headline on the paper in the bottom right corner reads: “Bush signs Detainee Bill, Secret Prisions, Tribunals, Nixes Habeas Corpus.”

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Amendment 41 misses the target

More about the  dreadful  Amendment 41 on  next month’s statewide ballot in Colorado is here.

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Grade school kids banned from running at recess

The CrankyProf posted this Cranky Epistle today:
No wonder our kids are getting fat and complacent.
No wonder they can’t handle competition.
We’re raising an entire generation of dumpy, ignorant, misanthropic little goblins with overdeveloped senses of entitlement, who wouldn’t know physical exertion (or “fun” that isn’t digitally enhanced) from their bepimpled little behinds.
I can just hear it [...]

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Raise your hand

. . . if you give a hoot in hell about this.
I thought so.   I thought he was quietly fading away into rehab or something.  I really wish he would.
Creep.

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Why can’t we just buy our own health care coverage?

Certifiable Princess writes funny. I love that. The latest installment over there chronicles the extremely dysfunctional management at her workplace, in the person of the Office Manager Monster. Whose felony crimes against fashion are just the beginning of a terrible rap sheet.
Because of the strange US system where employers provide health insurance [...]

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Beauty

Over at YouTube, here’s a great Dove video, “Evolution,” on a subject I hate thinking about: the false standards of beauty constantly marketed to all of us and especially girls and women. (YouTube doesn’t support WordPress blogging yet and I can only figure out how to just link to it. Sorry.)
HT to the CrankyProf over [...]

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No stuntman used

Run over to Ken Gordon’s website and view his new video.
Now.   And take your credit card.  Unless you’re a PAC.

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Peeks

The geeks who bring us the weather reports at weather.com have their lyrical moments, as I see this morning:

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I voted

Denver Election Commission goofs and all, I just fnished filling out my mail-in ballot, sealed the envelope and put gobs more postage on it than it needs.
It supposedly needs 87 cents postage. I slapped on three first-class stamps, 39 cents each. I don’t keep different-denomination stamps on hand, only first-class ones. [...]

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At least the Denver Election Commission didn’t do this one

In Grand Haven, Mich., Ottawa County will pay about $40,000 to correct a typo on 170,000 Nov. 7 election ballots: The “L” was left out of “public.” HT to The Daily Nooz.

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Vote NO on Amendment 41: confusing, abusive invasion of privacy

Norma Anderson has served her community and the State of Colorado with integrity and distinction as an elected official. Her recent retirement was marked by bipartisan praise for her service – yes, as a Republican, which goes to show it’s possible even today. I saw her in action more than 20 years ago [...]

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A little common sense to counter the archi-babble

The common sense is mostly found below the fold in this post. First, the context. Denver’s newspapers and bloggers are chattering these days about the City’s dumping the headliner big-name out of town architect (Steven Holl) from its huge new Justice Center project. Seems he was running true to his form [...]

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Forever in infamy

The bright young thing over at Go Fug Yourself has endeared herself to me yet again with this featuring some celebrity chef. I think he’s too grossly ugly to get any free publicity here. Details below the fold.

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Ken Gordon for Colorado Secretary of State

Ken Gordon is running for Colorado Secretary of State. I’m voting for him. The election’s on November 7, if anybody out there hasn’t been paying attention. Ken is a thoughtful guy, in some ways an unlikely sort of politician. He’s served in the Colorado General Assembly for several years, in the House and then in [...]

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What all dogs have in common

They have 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth. Regardless of breed.
I just learned that while watching one of my favorite shows: Barkitecture. It’s on the DIY Network. Veterinarian Karen Tobias hosts, along with designer Kenny Alfonso (“Barkitect”). Some of the doghouse designs are just way cool and fun.
I [...]

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Gospel of prosperity, part 2

The Denver Post online has this section for its stories about the Heritage Christian Center in Aurora Colorado, headed by Bishop Dennis Leonard. I posted about this yesterday but didn’t have the benefit of this link at that time.

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Memo to self

Buy some pajamas!*
*and keep reading Me and the cat -  the further adventures of a 70-something compassionate, dedicated tree-hugger.  Lorraine, YOU ROCK.

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Think you live in a tough town for single women?

Click on the link to see what made the Cranky Prof write: “This shouldn’t make me laugh, but it did.”

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If only it were the last word

. . . on the (former) Rep. Mark Foley scandal. It would be perfect. I loved this line from yesterday’s Rocky Mountain News column by Mike Littwin:
It’s disgusting that Foley was sending creepy e-mails to underage male pages, although no more disgusting than if he had been sharing [...]

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Ig® Nobel Prize winners 2006

The publishers of the Annals of Improbable Research announced the much-awaited 2006 Ig® Nobel Prize winners, including papers on woodpeckers’ immunity to headaches, dung beetles’ picky eating habits, and why people who misuse big words seem stupid. Details below the fold.

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Gospel of prosperity

The Denver Post devotes a few pages today to a special report on the Heritage Christian Center, a very large evangelical church in Aurora, Colorado, run by a self-ordained minister, Bishop Dennis Leonard. The Bish lives in high style. His family has profited mightily from church activities and a church-run charity. And [...]

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Goodies from the inbox

How many free email newsletters have I signed up for, only to find I’m deleting the latest installment unread from the inbox? More than I can remember. Mostly because I lacked continuing interest in the subject matter.
But I’m always sure to read the latest copy of Tom Mighell’s Internet Legal Research Weekly – despite the [...]

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Oh, you go, sister!

Just found Saintseester Says . . . . Funny broad. Funny blog. Great posts about traveling to New Orleans from her home in Alabama to attend the historic Monday Night Football game in tihe Superdome last week, of which here’s just one.
I’m glad I have a new keyboard that’s spozed to [...]

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