Sue Priest
Conifer
Eat their words:For all the restaurant owners who are so concerned about the smoking customers they will lose, they should think about the non-smoking customers who have stayed away from their establishments because they are too smoky. If the smoking-ban is approved, the once-smoky establishments may see an increase in non-smoking customers who were previously turned off by their restaurants.
Toni Adelsheimer
via the Internet
In harm's way: When you or I or that guy over there drink, we're harming no one but ourselves. We have that right. When you smoke in my face, you're harming me. And you don't have that right.
Get it?
Steve Read
via the Internet
It's a drag:Why is everyone so interested in policing everyone else? People who don't want to be around smoke don't have to go to restaurants that allow smoking. People who don't want to work around smoke don't have to work at restaurants that allow smoking. Let the marketplace decide -- not the anti-smoking nazis.
Jay Ramirez
Denver
Up in smoke:If this were to go up to a popular vote, there is no doubt that the majority of Denverites would vote in favor of not having to breathe inconsiderate smokers' secondhand smoke while trying to enjoy a meal. I defend the smokers' right to kill themselves if that is their desire, but I don't think they have the right to take me out with them.
On a lesser level than life and death, smokers stink -- and when I'm in a bar or restaurant where they are smoking, I stink, too. Wearing a sweater or jacket more than once after being subjected to their blue cloud is unthinkable. So not only are smokers endangering their health and mine, they are lining the pockets of my dry cleaner.
No smoking -- now! If they can do it in New York and San Francisco, we can, and should, do it in Denver. Go, Happy and Wellington.
Dave Tyner
Denver
Out of Lefty Field
X marks the spat:Regarding Gregory Weinkauf's "Violent Femmes," in the May 1 issue:
"Kicking things off, a blue-skinned teleporting demon crashes the White House, intent on stabbing the president (ah, to dream)." Say what? Hey, Weinkauf, all I really wanted to know was whether or not X-Men 2 was worth seeing.
Can't you people even keep your lefty bullshit out of the film reviews?
Kevin Davis
Denver
Crack Investigators
Bridging the credibility gap: Okay, we may not all be in agreement as to what constitutes the Best of Denver selections every year; however, when Westword names the Millennium Bridge as the Best Addition to the Denver Skyline, I have to wonder: Just whose ass are we kissing? That bridge is the ugliest piece of hack scenery yet to land in any town, and at the low, low price of $9 million -- what a bargain! I'm so glad we have a "ship's mast" sitting in the middle of a city built on the prairie, land-locked for life unless someone decides to dig out Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Every word written about the bridge is like cheesy stream of consciousness after the writer obviously hit the crack pipe. The bridge is ugly, no matter how you slice it, light it up or whatever. It certainly does not bear any resemblance to a ship, although one could argue that maybe the "ship" part sank and left only a crooked mast. Finally, the damn thing is crooked! Not the mast, but the actual bridge does not sit level across the horizon -- it's tilted. Don't believe it? Go take a look for yourself. Why the hell is Westword so excited about it?
Lay off the crack, man.
Devon Kurzweil
Denver
