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Reader: Quit whining, Colorado pussies! It’s 116 in Phoenix!

Hot enough for you? Bree Davies's "top five reasons to stop whining and enjoy the summer already" has plenty of people hot under the collar...
By Patricia CalhounJune 21, 2012
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Hot enough for you? Bree Davies’s “top five reasons to stop whining and enjoy the summer already” has plenty of people hot under the collar.

Says Desert Badass:

It’s 116 in Phoenix Arizona so quit your sniveling, you Colorado pussies.

And summer just started yesterday! How do you feel about summer? Post your comments below, or join the conversation already under way here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame (probably for her bar tab). She’s received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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