Saturday Video Roundup: creating a stop sign
Happy Saturday. For those of you who don’t work in the world of marketing and advertising, this is so accurate it’s a little scary.
Read moreThe Scrogue’s Guide to Denver and the DNC: beer and brewpubs
Colorado has, over the past 15 years or so, established itself as a genuine microbrew mecca, and just about every place you walk into either makes their own or is serving up something produced by one of our many local breweries. We host the Great American Beer Festival every fall, and while we tip our caps to all the great
Read moreThe Scrogue’s Guide to Denver and the DNC: steak!
In the coming weeks we’ll be posting a series of recommendations about things to do and places to visit, dine and get likkered up for DNC visitors to Denver, which is home to a number of S&R writers. The Scrogues Guide is not intended as a comprehensive list – frankly, there’s way too much to see and do in Denver
Read moreOur latest tragic shooting: who’s to blame?
Another church shooting, this time in Knoxville. By now you’ve probably read the accounts and know that the shooter, Jim Adkisson, was motivated by, among other things, an apparent hatred of “liberals.” Before diving too much deeper, there are a couple things we can probably safely say about Adkisson. First, these weren’t the actions of a rational man. Rational people
Read moreS&R @ the DNC: Come see us at Lime
We mentioned earlier that Scholars & Rogues is one of 124 blogs that have been credentialed to cover the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve reached an agreement with our good friends at Lime – they’ll be our official home during the DNC. If you’re new to Denver, Lime is one of the best
Read moreHow do you feel about free speech, Mr. Candidate?
Our friends over at Colorado Independent have a great new analysis up on free speech zones graveyards at the upcoming DNC. As Constitutional attorney John Whitehead explains, the Dems will be the only party this summer building a fence around open expression. Protesters at the upcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver in late August will be corralled into caged
Read moreThe truth is out there right here?
Did you catch this item in the morning news? Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell – a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission – has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions – but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Read moreWordsDay: the art of the possible
In case you’ve been off-planet, the dumpster fire that is Election Season 2008 is in full swing. While this can be entertaining if you’re cynical enough, it’s a process that can exert a warping effect on the perspectives of even the best among us. In times like these, it’s often helpful to turn to the wisdom of the ages. Today,
Read moreFinally – candidates paying attention to voters like me
‘No Values Voters’ Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate
Read moreTunesDay: welcome to Pop Underground
We write about music here from time to time and I know that a lot of our readers look forward to posts about tuneage. If you love music and want to hear more, let me introduce you to a new music site you may appreciate, and one that comes with the coveted S&R Seal of Approval: Pop Underground.
Read moreThat New Yorker cartoon: an alternate take
I’ve been following the New Yorker/Obama cartoon dustup that my colleague, JS O’Brien, wrote about earlier today. In addition to the official and media reactions that have littered our news channels, I’ve also been tracking the heated debates raging across Left Blogistan with a mix of bewilderment and anger. I certainly empathize with JS and his “Archie Bunker” analysis –
Read moreArtSunday: do electric sheep dream of digital art?
A few weeks ago we showed you a painting by Miro and posed the question: is this art? The consensus opinion seemed to be that sure, I guess it’s art, although I wouldn’t pay a penny for it. Today we look at digitally generated images and ask the same question. Specifically, have a look at Electric Sheep, my cool new
Read moreRamseys cleared; Denver Post releases the truthers
In a long-overdue move, Boulder prosecutors have officially cleared the family of JonBenet Ramsey in the girl’s December 26, 1996 murder. I say “long-overdue” because for those of us who’ve paid attention to the evidence it’s been clear for years now – painfully, maddeningly clear – that the family was innocent. I emphasize “evidence” in that sentence for a reason.
Read moreDon’t mourn Jesse’s death – mourn that his legacy lives
On his outstanding Prodigal Son CD, North Carolina folk and blugrass legend Mike Cross presents us with a high-stepping little ditty called “Bill is in His Grave.” Bill, it turns out, was a scoundrel of the first order, and he’d been recently deceased. The narrator is asked to say a few words at the funeral, a task that proves daunting
Read moreWordsDay: A Southern writer’s famous Midwestern tale
Perhaps I’m jaded. Maybe I’ve read “A Rose for Emily” once too often, researched a tad too much about dismemberments in Memphis, taught one class too many on “A Good Man is Hard to Find,†and indulged myself too uncritically in the fictive Carolina childhood of T.R. Pearson. Maybe there’s something deep and dark and twisted in me. I don’t
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