Live at the DNC
Since Monday I’ve been hanging out downtown Denver and covering the DNC. I’ve met some really cool people; in addition to bloggers and writers from Momocrats, JackandJill, Green Mountain Daily, Huffington Post and other places, I’ve had a chance to meet and talk briefly with Katie Couric, Senator Ken Salazar, Congressman James Langevin and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Of course, if you don’t know it already I ought to mention that I am attending the DNC (as well as the RNC next week) on behalf of Disaboom.com, an online community for those touched or affected by disability. Naturally, any comments that I make on this particular blog do not necessarily reflect those of Disaboom.com, which is a non-partisan organization. To...
“You’re a Phony, a Big Fat Phony! Hey Everybody, He’s a Phony!”
I know that China is the home of iPhone rip-offs and lead-filled Colgate, but it appears that their duplicity and fakery don’t end with electronics and domestic household products. China admitted faking the opening fireworks of the Olympic Opening Ceremony as well as faking the voice of the cute little singer who sang their national song. And, to anyone who has watched the Chinese women gymnasts, it appears blatantly obvious that several of their gymnasts are well under 16 years old, the age required to participate in the Olympics. Shoot, one of them looks barely seven and a half and appears to have not lost all of her baby teeth. It’s pretty disappointing to see a country so bent on image and victory that they are willing to cast their...
Mountain Lion Drags Dog out of Owner’s Bedroom
Crazy story, this is a small front range town just southwest of the Denver area. I go mountain biking in this area all the time. A mountain lion slunk into the master bedroom of an Idledale home early Monday, snatched a yellow Labrador retriever and vanished. Officers are hunting the mountain lion and have set a trap, said Jennifer Churchill, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife. “A lion that will brazenly go into someone’s bedroom . . . we need to be careful of,” Churchill said. The dog’s body was found near the property. Churchill said the residents had left open the French doors to their bedroom, apparently to cool the house, and didn’t have screens. There were dogs sleeping in the bedroom when the mountain lion...