House Party

State representative Andrew Romanoff is a party man, but not that kind of party man. The Colorado Speaker of the House is looking forward to the Democratic National Convention this August, but doesn’t think the nation’s drunkest city should consider keeping bars open later (make that earlier into the morning)…

Pundit Watch: Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson is sort of the Paris Hilton of political punditry: he’s famous for just being famous. Which is enough, it needs be said, to have your own show for a near three-year run on MSNBC. But then, Paris had The Simple Life, too. Life with Tucker Carlson isn’t so…

Lighting Up

Peter Kozma, a Hungarian artist who lives in Switzerland, has been in town during the last week hunting up locations for a series of proposed light projections on Denver buildings that would coincide with the Democratic National Convention in August. The project is being sponsored by Denver’s Invisible Museum, a…

Delegating Denver #38 of 56: North Dakota

View larger image North Dakota Total Number of Delegates: 21 Pledged: 13 Unpledged: 8 How to Recognize a North Dakota Delegate: After the original building burned to the ground on December 28, 1930, North Dakota’s new state capitol was designed to soar to nineteen stories and contain enough office space…

Richardson Plays Ball — Just Not With Clinton

The Colorado Rockies’ first home game yesterday attracted a host of local politicos — Governor Bill Ritter, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper (who had to leave before the first pitch for a police academy graduation ceremony), Representative (and U.S. Senate candidate) Mark Udall. But a national star was in the house,…

Closing Time

If Governor Ritter has any doubts about putting pen to paper to sign the long-overdue repeal of Colorado’s Sunday liquor ban, he should remember that the state’s honor is at risk. This is Convention Summer, and Minnesota sure as hell isn’t going to beat us to the booze. A legislative…

Obama Conspiracy Theories…with Eggs

College kids, when not sexing and boozing, are attending Obama rallies. When there isn’t an Obama rally to attend, they’ll make one up. Perhaps because April Fools’ Day fast approaches or perhaps because they got tired of the election year sex and beer, unnamed miscreants on the University of Pennsylvania…

ProgressNow Shows Subscribers a Dick For April Fool’s Day

April Fool’s Day: the most irritating holiday or undeniably the most irritating holiday? The date tends to bring out the dumbness in even the smartest people. Every once in a while, though, a prank actually produces a chuckle — like, for instance, the one the lefties at ProgressNow pulled on…

Looking for Larry #4

Preston Peerman continues to hunt for Senator Larry Craig in the bathrooms at DIA. Here’s his latest report: Location: Men’s room in the main DIA terminal, just to the right where passengers exit at the top of the escalator (in front of the fountain). I’m currently in the middle stall…

Delegating Denver #37 of 56: North Carolina

View larger image North Carolina Total Number of Delegates: 134 Pledged: 115 Unpledged: 19 How to Recognize a North Carolina Delegate: Ahh, the Land of the Sky — such a lovely state, full of beautiful people who are impossible to understand. The only reason that John Edwards is not the…

Vengeful Voters

Should Denver be hosting the Republican National Convention, too? Assuming the Democrats can get their collective act together and actually nominate someone for the presidency, John McCain’s looking for a blue boost. Beyond the impending delegate-deadlock and superdelegate fiasco, another ominous sign for the Dems has appeared on the horizon…

Looking for Larry #3

Preston Peerman just checked in with his latest investigation of DIA’s restrooms, and his ongoing search for Larry Craig: Location: DIA men’s restroom across from the shoe-shine stand in the B concourse (just as you come up the escalator from the train). Due to the fact that I arrived two…

McCain Wagons West

Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain will make a Mile High stopover on Thursday, visiting the Denver Athletic Club for a meet and greet with his Colorado Finance Committee. “Finance Committee” means “rich and/or powerful donors,” and “his” committee means “Romney and Giuliani’s.” It’s an old truism that Democrats fall in…

Pundit Watch: Glenn Beck

Criticizing Glenn Beck is an unsatisfying thing. Part of the reason for this is that it’s so easy. After all, the guy is, like Limbaugh and Hannity before him, utterly untrained for what he’s come to do. Rush was a sales rep; Sean was in construction; Glenn Beck was a…

Black is the New President, Bitch.

Tracy Morgan, of all people, finished it. It, of course, being the political controversy surrounding Saturday Night Live’s supposed support of Hillary Clinton. At least we can hope so, after a long round of puffed-up news surrounding the late-night institution and its supposedly sincere political soapboxery. We’re years into an…

Delegating Denver #36 of 56: New York

View larger image New York Total Number of Delegates: 282 Pledged: 232 Unpledged: 50 How to Recognize a New York Delegate: After arguing about food and their governor’s taste in call girls, New Yorkers spend a lot of time arguing about the personality split that divides upstate from downstate. The…

Looking for Larry, #2

Ever since the Idaho Statesman revealed that Senator Larry Craig had made the moves on a fellow Idaho politico at Denver International Airport, our Mr. seX, Preston Peerman, has been keeping his eyes open on his frequent trips out of DIA. Here’s his latest report: LOCATION: Main Concourse at DIA:…

Passport Privy: Wherein I Try to Hack My Own State Department File

It was pretty obvious from the outset that some sort of clandestine conspiracy run by the Bush Administration was sneaking a peek into Barack Obama’s passport file on hand with the State Department. The whole thing reeked of 1972—a paranoid party desperately collecting secrets and deep background on leading Democratic…

Democracy in Action

“I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.” Representative Bob Gardner, a Republican, uttered Will Rogers’s classic quote on Thursday, as the Statehouse was hurrying through business before the three-day Easter holiday. But the line described the action a few blocks away even better,…

Lottery Lunacy

To determine which groups get what public parks during the Democratic National Convention in August, the city of Denver held its first ever “extraordinary event” park permitting lottery yesterday afternoon – a cheery little raffle that I will be referring to from this point forward as the Clusterfuck of Democracy…

Bitch is the New Black

Bitch is the New Black on FunnyOrDie.com Tina Fey started it. In her hosting role on the first Saturday Night Live back from the recent writers’ strike, Tina Fey appeared on the “Weekend Update” segment and capped her piece on “Women’s News” with a pro-Hillary rallying cry. And in recent…

Speech in the City of Brotherly Love

It’s not often in America that a rich, white military man and a rich, white wife of a former president hang on a black man’s every word. It’s not often that a presidential candidate can call the Constitution stained but endowed with infinite future promise, can call this country’s citizens…