CON GAMES: Liberal Talk Show Host Lost in Land of the Cons
Marina Del Rey, California—Walking along the boardwalk here at Venice Beach on the eve of the Radio and Records Talk Show Seminar this week, I was passed by a youngish thug wearing [...]
CON GAMES: Let Us Now Praise Famous X
When the X Gamers descend on Aspen every winter, we Booming bleeping locals are always glad to have them, if only because of our friends in the restaurant business. The slackers and knuckle-draggers have [...]
CON GAMES: Aspen’s Keystone Kops
Want to commit a crime on your summer vacation? Consider the advantages of sumptuous Aspen, Colorado, where the local City constables are likely to either be lenient or lose the evidence entirely. Among the missing [...]
CON GAMES: The Loony Bin of Aspen Politics
So we have Marilyn Marks resigning from The Red Ant blog, the waspish Elizabeth Milias berating Aspen City Manager Steve Barwick, and the gnatty Andrew Kole professing his preference for blondes. Just another day in [...]
CON GAMES: Police State in Denver
There aren't too many things that make me want to blow my stack on the way to a ballgame but being an unwitting dirtbag in a police sting operation is one of them. I digress: [...]
CON GAMES: Conservative Politics: Just a Talk Show
As a talk show host, I am immensely gratified by the political career path yapping portends. I could become a talking points talking head like Mike Pence, the Congressman from Indiana who cut his teeth [...]
CON GAMES: Elaine Pagels, Literally
Where have you gone Jerry Falwell? In the mists of the Tea Party nonsense, it is perilously easy to miss the fact that the Kool-Aid of the Evangelical Right has grown lukewarm, tepid, and downright [...]
CON GAMES: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell About Military Spending
The charade pertaining to gays in the military—I love you, man!—is all but over, but in the meantime military apologists on the right and the left need never ask nor tell about the elephantiasis of [...]
CON GAMES: Aspen Daily News Drunk With Power
There's nothing the least bit funny about a drinking problem, not even when it's someone you don't necessarily like. Nonetheless the murky circumstances surrounding the arrest for trespassing of Aspen Daily News owner/mascot Dave Danforth [...]
CON GAMES: How Charles Dickens Saved My Life
In the wee small hours of the morning—about 10:05 PM Mountain Time last night—I turned to the final page of the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: no small feat, when you consider the final [...]