Post blogger B Jon Taylor in his latest blog shares an article by Charlie Reese on government.
New Post blogger Jonathan Lekstutis is taking time out to praise Pitkin County Library. Lekstutis blogs,"Moving to a new place is not the easiest thing to do. As you are all well aware I moved from New York to Aspen. There have been things that have made the transition difficult and other things that have made it easy. So far the place that has made me feel the most at home and comfortable is the Pitkin County Library. The workers there are always helpful and every time I walk through the door they ask if there is any way they could help me."
"We've discovered many things in this world that can alter a person's emotional state or excitement level," writes Post blogger Kristin Walla. "Most of which fall under the category of...drug. Uppers, downers, street drugs, legal drugs, prescription, you name it. We're constantly surround by them. Even drug-free addictions like shopping, tv, eating, and exercise cause debt, eye-strain, weight-gain, and joint-pain. For the past few weeks, however, I've re-discovered a truly healthy drug free high. An addiction who's side effects only include an increase in your vocabulary." So what's this pleasant addiction? "I've just completed the four-book
Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer, which, if you follow book publication at all, has been quite the craze as of late, and I wasn't about to miss the bandwagon... [this series has] made me realize how great reading can be again. It brought back a sense of invigoration from the simple act of comprehending words on page that I hadn't felt since Harry Potter."
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Moving to a new place is not to the easiest thing to do. As you are all well aware I moved from New York to Aspen. There have been things that have made the transition difficult and other things that have made it easy. So far the place that has made me feel the most at home and comfortable is the Pitkin County Library.
The workers there are always helpful and every time I walk through the door they ask if there is any way they could help me. Part of my job here at Post Time News is to update the the Web site and since I am still in between places I don't have the internet yet. So I have had to rely on the library. They helped me set up my computer so I could get the internet and do my job.
Continue Reading October 17th, 2008
addiction: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. (dictionary.com)
We've discovered many things in this world that can alter a person's emotional state or excitement level. Most of which fall under the category of...drug. Uppers, downers, street drugs, legal drugs, prescription, you name it. We're constantly surround by them. Even drug-free addictions like shopping, tv, eating, and exercise cause debt, eye-strain, weight-gain, and joint-pain.
For the past few weeks, however, I've re-discovered a truly healthy drug free high. An addiction who's side effects only include an increase in your vocabulary.
Continue Reading September 14th, 2008
The Con Man covers the waterfront with visits from the photographer behind "Dogs I've Nosed," the Broadway Babes starring in Theatre Aspen's black comedy "Crimes of the Heart," and Jim McWilliams, the Texas State University history professor who wrote "American Pests" covering the ground from colonial times to DDT.
Click here for Thursday's "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Thursday July 31, 2008.
August 1st, 2008
The Con Man covers the waterfront with visits from the photographer behind "Dogs I've Nosed," the Broadway Babes starring in Theatre Aspen's black comedy "Crimes of the Heart," and Jim McWilliams, the Texas State University history professor who wrote "American Pests" covering the ground from colonial times to DDT.
Click here for Thursday's "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Thursday July 31, 2008.
August 1st, 2008
The Con Man welcomes William McKeen, the professor of journalism at the University of Florida at Gainesville, who has just completed his second book on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Jr., "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson." Among the questions asked: was he destroyed by drugs and alcohol--or celebrity? And what's his place in the pantheon of American writers?
Click here for the complete "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Friday July 18, 2008.
July 18th, 2008
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen—and why the hell not?
He wore the mantle lightly at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in part because he married into the gazillionaire Buxbaum family, who have so far given tens of millions of dollars to the town, with the latest dollop a $25 million downpayment for a spanky campus at the Aspen Music Festival and School. But Friedman’s wallop at the podium has all but nothing to do with Bucksbaum bucks, and everything to do with his prescient ability to package the zeitgeist with the tidiness of a juice box—the kind that comes with its own self-piercing straw.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2008
The Con Man welcomes David Davidar of Penguin Canada; Areyeh Green of Media Central in Israel; and Martin Sherwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of "American Prometheus," about Robert Oppenheimer.
Continue Reading June 23rd, 2008
Aspen, CO, June 12, 2008 –– The 2008 Aspen Institute McCloskey Speaker Series opens with a lecture by American historian Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf). Sherwin will discuss “Hiroshima’s Shadow: The First Nuclear World and Ours.”
Continue Reading June 19th, 2008
When I saw the book “Print Is Dead: Books In Our Digital Age,” my great fear was that Jeff Gomez had found out the great secret I have been carrying around for fifteen years in hopes that nobody would find me out.
Fortunately for me, Gomez—an Internet marketing executive for a book company—made his way through his fascinating dissertation with many compelling observations of his own, though without coming close to my conclusion about the future.
My secret is safe for a few paragraphs more.
Continue Reading April 17th, 2008
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