Post blogger reckless G thinks the perspective of Matthew Alexander who led an interrogations team assigned to a Special Operations task force in Iraq in 2006, is too important for Americans to miss. He is the author of "How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq." In a recent Washington Post Op-Ed he writes, “I'm not some ivory-tower type; I served for 14 years in the U.S. Air Force, began my career as a Special Operations pilot flying helicopters, saw combat in Bosnia and Kosovo, became an Air Force counterintelligence agent, then volunteered to go to Iraq to work as a senior interrogator. What I saw in Iraq still rattles me -- both because it betrays our traditions and because it just doesn't work.”
President Kennedy’s inaugural speech included the famous phrase: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” Forty-Eight years later, president-elect Barack Obama inspires Americans to revisit that question.
Featuring work by Anderson Ranch fall resident artists and staff, this exhibition at Patton-Malott & Gartner Galleries runs from December 2-18 and the reception is Dec. 16 from 5 to 8 p.m.
I opened this morning’s edition of the GSPI to learn that we’re being overrun by wildlife. That’s right, wring your hands and run screaming into the night, there’s beavers eating trees in Noname and Grizzly Creek, and bears are eating llamas in Rifle. I tell you, I’ve lived here a long time, but I can’t remember the last time life here seemed so tenuous, so
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
I am having a difficult time deciding which presidential candidate would receive my vote come November, should I actually remember to vote. I think my problem is that I know very little about the candidates, other than the basics; white man; black man, white woman…Republican, Democrat, Democrat…war hero, dynamic speaker, wife of Bill…old as mummy dust, young and inexperienced, middle aged and somewhat bitchy, etc.
Ideally, I’d dedicate the time to read the most recent book written by each candidate in order to gain a better understanding of who they are as a person, but that would mean I would have to read three books, so, forget it.
I haven’t been sleeping much lately, which means I’ve spent countless hours in the hopeless darkness thinking of the most ridiculous things imaginable. The sleep deprived mind, I’ve learned, is not a sane mind.
Last night I could not stop thinking about a story I had read online. Two Houston teens, the story reported, were arrested for digging up a grave to make a pot pipe from a skull. The writer mentioned that he would love to hear the conversation that led to such a brilliant idea, so I figured I’d oblige him.
It’s all action-focused, forcefulness. I’ve changed a lot since then. There are so many different ways to go about being fulfilled. I grew up in a home with very competitive athletes. My sister is a professional windsurfer, my brother is on the U.S. Sailing team, an Olympic athlete. I didn’t perform at that level. So that’s all I knew. How to go about it all the way.
We post staffers were looking for something the mighty Jimbo might say to Michael to close out the fourth year of Con Games, something like "It's great to be a part of something so good that's lasted so long," but we found something even better:
Mark Kirkorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and originator of the concept, attrition-through-enforcement, and Cory Voorhis, the ICE agent who was just found not guilty in the cause célèbre federal criminal case in U.S. District Court Denver, will be interviewed on the Con Games (KNFO, 106.1, 8:00am-10:00am) on Wednesday, April 16.
I live and work in Glenwood Springs, and like most men my age I'm looking for a way to drop a few pounds that doesn't involve a six mile run out to Noname and back. So I read weekly emails from Chef Church's Garnish Restaurant, and the only thing that bothers me more than the fact that I don't eat anything like the healthy cuisine he serves, I sometimes serve Eggo waffles to my kids before school.
Despite this embarrassing admission, I relish seeing Chef Church's weekly menus in my in-box, if only because rare occasions, Chef Church inspires me to cook.
This week, the Daily News reported that the City of Aspen is requesting locals go to aspenpitkin.com and complete a questionnaire. According to the article, the questionnaire asks people to list their three favorite places to congregate, as well as their three favorite places to be alone and reflect.
My first thought was that I didn’t want the city to know my favorite places. If they knew, they might do something stupid and ruin them.
So, instead I’ve opted to present the city with the three places that I don’t like to congregate, and the three places that I definitely don’t like to go when I want to be alone and reflect.
