For those of you not familiar with Denver's Light Rail system, a little background. Near one of the stops for downtown Denver (the 16th and California stop, to be precise,) there is a restaurant where one of the employees almost invariably stands outside the entrance and waves to the passing Light Rail trains. In fact, this is such a regular ( Read more... )

This morning, as those of you in the Denver-Boulder area could attest, was a little on the nippy side. Normally on mornings like this, I would prefer to wait inside the shelter at the stop where I catch the bus to Denver, but today I ended up waiting outside the shelter. Why? Someone was standing inside the shelter smoking. This is not the ( Read more... )

Not once but twice within a couple of days of last Wednesday's class discussion on public discourse I caught myself bashing a certain group of people, in this case, the Tea Party. One of these times was immediately following the class, and in a discussion with a classmate, to boot! True, both times I recognized what I was doing, but it doesn't ( Read more... )

As much as I hate to say it, the time when I am the most embarrassed to be a University of Colorado football fan is when I am watching the game at the stadium. Oh, don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the games, and I still love my team, but it is there that the student section, and their seeming lack of sportsmanship, is at its most obvious. This ( Read more... )