CON GAMES—The biggest surprise of the Republican primaries for your most ’umble correspondent came when I learned Rick Santorum, deposed Senator from Pennsylvania, was not in fact an evangelical Christian. Santorum’s sluggo campaign slogan is “Faith, Freedom, Family”—just not the Evangelical... Read more →
CON GAMES: For Evangelical Conservatives, Catholics Are Next To Godliness
CON GAMES—The biggest surprise of the Republican primaries for your most ’umble correspondent came when I learned Rick Santorum, deposed Senator from Pennsylvania, was not in fact an evangelical Christian. Santorum’s sluggo campaign slogan is “Faith, Freedom, Family”—just not the Evangelical... Read more →
CON GAMES: Joe Pa And The McQueary Query
CON GAMES—Media shock and awe descended upon Happy Valley this week, but nothing was more shocking than the outcries and outrage leveled against Mike McQueary, the Penn State football team’s wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator—and the whistleblower against Jerry Sandusky, the former... Read more →
CON GAMES: Chelsea FC’s Beautiful Game Gets Ugly
CON GAMES—The Culture Editor of The New York Times, who deigns on bad days to write about sports, says: “Sports is absurd.” (This in Sunday’s The New York Times Magazine.) But if you’re a true sports fan, then you know Culture Editor is in way over his head—a man down in the brain with a... Read more →
CON GAMES: The Golden Age Of Content Is Now
CON GAMES—Ink-stained wretches will find this hard to believe, but we the people have moved full-bore into the golden age of content. Despite the nosedive of print products everywhere, the actual market for content has never been better. Writers and editors who found their skill-sets archaic are about... Read more →
CON GAMES: Pray For Cleverley At Manchester United
CON GAMES—I am now on my knees praying for Tom Cleverley, the young midfielder from Manchester United cast down by undeserved injury early this season just as he was leading the famous side to one of its greatest starts ever. No one else seems to be talking about Cleverley, no one is writing about... Read more →
CON GAMES: Erin Burnett, Anchor From Citigroup, Seriously
CON GAMES—I didn’t know diddly about Erin Burnett, the new anchor at CNN, but I liked the video of her decamping to the bowels of capitalism to go womano-a-womano with the Occupiers. I liked her willingness to expose the Dumbo qualities of some of the protesters, particularly when she told them... Read more →
CON GAMES: The Death Of Steve Jobs And The Post-Digital World
CON GAMES–Once upon a time, in a previous life, I launched myself into a limousine uninvited because Walter Cronkite was in the backseat and he was my ticket to ride. He was just about to retire, and he was kind enough to get me an interview at CBS in New York, where he was about to give up the... Read more →
CON GAMES: Buffs, Broncos Hoofin’ It In Hell
CON GAMES–Tradition can’t hold a candle to defeat. I know because I have tried for eight years to the day to be the very best Colorado football fan I can be. I have tried tradition, going back twice now to the Oxford Hotel in LoDo, there to prepare for the Rocky Mountain Showdown betwixt CU... Read more →
CON GAMES: Pitkin County, Colorado, Suicides A Way Of Life
In 2005, the death by suicide of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Jr. at his home in Woody Creek, Pitkin County, Colorado, was literally the shotgun heard round the world, reverberating between and among political and literary types circumnavigating the planet. Nonetheless, the famous doctor’s death was not... Read more →