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 [...]
Con Games: Hell House Lives on in Colorado
Just when you thought it was safe to go out—or Halloween, at least—consider the news that the hell business has never been better in the great state of Colorado. Never mind the [...]
CON GAMES: Military-Industrial Complex @ 50
I can't tell you how, and I can't tell you why, and I can't tell you where, but I can tell you that I spent an exceedingly comfortable evening having cocktails in the company of [...]
CON GAMES: I’m Allergic To New England
I am now thankfully at the tail end of a trip from hell through New England -- and no, it was not because of the godawful BoSawx fans now popping up like bowling [...]
CON GAMES: Goodbye Blank Page, Hello Writing 2.0
A Con Games Column I feel lucky because I did most of my writing before artificial intelligence (AI) became the Headless Horseman heedless of humankind. Pre-Chatbot, the ink-stained wretch had no choice but to write [...]
CON GAMES: O Canada, Of Thee We Sing
Why can't we be more like Canada? They host the Olympics like they mean it. They smile. They play hockey and penalty-kill. They honor the indigenous people in their midst without trying to wipe them [...]
CON GAMES: Getting Facebooked
A Con Games blast from the past: The virtual world can get a little too real some days, and one of those days came last week when a couple I know--one-half of the couple to [...]