Long-time readers know that S&R has always scrupulously avoided money, and we’ve done so for lots of reasons. However, lately some realities have begun asserting themselves. When you have a certain degree of success in this game you reach a point where it starts costing more money, mainly for the bandwidth and security required to handle a growing readership. If
Read moreby Jennifer Angliss Let’s take Sarah Palin at her word that Trig is her biological son. We do not currently have any hard evidence to say otherwise, despite all those pictures floating around the internet. But the evidence we do have is disturbing enough. At 36 weeks of pregnancy, Palin was in Texas for an energy conference. She began leaking
Read moreThe DNC has been a logistics task of epic proportions. And Obama’s decision, just days before the media walkthrough of Pepsi Center, to move tonight’s festivities across the Mighty Platte to Mile High Stadium, amped the volume of Debaclepalooza ’08 up to 11. The point is that anybody whose job has something to do with making these trains run on
Read moreFrom what I can tell on this morning’s news, it looks like the mainstream press did an admirable job of ignoring one of yesterday’s three biggest events at the DNC: the spontaneous, peaceful march by 3000-4000 demonstrators, led by Rage Against the Machine and an assemblage of uniformed veterans against the war, on Pepsi Center and the DNC. I’ll come
Read moreUPDATED: new protest image added below. Pre-march instructions emphasized that protesters should be peaceful throughout the march, which is now about to enter Lower Downtown. It’s not clear whether they have encountered police yet, but if they have all is still civil. Jack sent this shot from Blake and Broadway.
Read moreThis just in from Jack, who’s on the scene with the Tent State crowd: Tent State is about to march from the Coliseum down Brighton and Broadway to the DNC. Rage is walking with them. Looks like 4,000 people or more. This could be fun. Stay tuned. UPDATE: A group of police in riot gear just offloaded near Blake and
Read moreWe’ve gotten a lot of comments on the photojournalism of one of our new team members, Jack Shaftoe. Some questions about permission to reuse these images have popped up, and we wanted to let everybody know that it’s fine with us. Three things: 1: Photos must be used in their entirety, as is (not cropped or re-edited). 2: Photos must
Read moreI hate to sound a negative note, but it’s time to call a few DNC attendees on the carpet. Word flying around the waiter and bartender network in downtown and LoDo is that the DNC crowd isn’t tipping very well. (Sorry, no names or locations here – you’re just going to have to trust me.) I’ve talked to several bartenders
Read moreGot to see these guys last night at the show in the Big Tent. Very funny stuff. Nice guys, too. See more from Barely Political here.
Read moreMitt Romney says John McCain earned his homes. All 14 of them, presumably, including the 12 he couldn’t find on a map if his life depended on it. Speaking to reporters at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, Romney said that while McCain deserved his houses because of the “hard work” of himself and his family, “Barack Obama
Read moreI believe I recall Barack Obama quoting Otto Von Bismarck’s edict that “politics is the art of the possible,” and evidence of that optimism abounds everywhere I look in Denver today. The two words we seem to be hearing more than any others are “hope” and “change,” and we saw a wonderfully eloquent articulation of this enthusiasm last night in
Read moreIf you look in the sidebar to the right you’ll see that we’ve added a Twitter stream. Plug us in, turn us on…
Read moreDNC08, day one observation: there’s just way the hell more going on that we can cover. There are 11 of us, and I’m not sure we could do what we feel like we ought to be doing if we had 111. It’s especially tough because S&R isn’t and never has been about being the firstest and the fastest. We rarely
Read moreSo, the Minutemen are in town agitating about securing our borders. We’ve been thinking about the idea of a border fence for quite awhile and up until recently we were adamantly opposed. For one thing, it seemed unlikely to work, and for another, anybody who’s been to a Home Depot lately can tell you that fencing is expensive as hell.
Read moreFor those of you who haven’t found a CNN Radio outlet in your area, below are the clips they’re using from my interview this morning. I’ll warn you in advance – I can’t promise that I’m interesting. They’re doing three different snips. I’ll give you the voiceover lead-in followed by the audio link. 1: Bigger Picture: “Among the standard media
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