Our daily survey of local blogs. Send tips. Attention, Democrats: Meet the men who will try to make your life miserable in the near future. (Face the State) Contraception bill passes, but not without some requisite weirdness. (Colorado Independent) Now that’s how to endear your readers: Blog sponsors a happy…

Our weekend started Thursday, with a bizarre made-from-paper fashion show, and continued through Saturday night with a not-at-all-bizarre parade of drunk people at the downtown Lodo’s. In between we looked longingly at photos sent from our colleagues in Austin for South by Southwest. See pictures of it all at westword.com/slideshow,…

Our daily hike up Blog Mountain. Send tips. A judge has blocked a Bush Administration rule to allow loaded guns in national parks, calling the administration’s process “astoundingly flawed.” In so many ways, judge. (Colorado Independent) Democrats and lobbyists have killed a schools-spending transparency bill. Now that’s change status quo…

Our daily cruise through the blogosphere. Send tips. Is Senator Michael Bennet already turning on Obama? (Square State) In the Rocky’s absence, the Post has gone commie. Allegedly. (Face the State) A random lesson on how to survive a wild animal attack, which sent us spiraling into thirty minutes of…

Be vewy, vewy quiet. We’re hunting bwogs. Send tips. Chill, baby, chill: Environmentalists are freaking out over Ken Salazar’s recent comments about drilling in Alaska. (Colorado Independent) The commie bastards at the state Supreme Court have upheld a controversial property-tax increase. Can you guess what Jon Caldara thinks? (Face the…

Our daily slog through the blogosphere. Send tips. Wait, what? Some politicians have interests other than their constituents? Say it ain’t so! (Face the State) Expect a little touch-up work for some Denver hotels. (5280) The Jonas Brothers are in Denver! Sort of! Okay, not really! Why were you so…

It was a busy weekend in Denver, starting Friday with tryouts for the city’s new Lingerie Football League, and ending on the couch Sunday, with everyone trying to remember why they were wearing green underwear. See photos at westword.com/slideshow…

St. Patrick’s Day is on Tuesday. So if you’re Irish, or sort of want to be Irish, or have ever met anyone who knows roughly where Ireland is on a map, you’re probably planning on taking a half day and jumping in the octagon with your liver for a twelve-hour,…

Our daily gallivant through Denver’s blogosphere. Send tips. Pay no attention to the greedy agent behind the whining franchise quarterback. (Mile High Report) Kim Snyder and Galen Foster were the face of Colorado’s property-rights fight. Now their fight is over. (Face the State) The Denver Post editorial board is not…

Here some links to things about things we hope may interest you. If not, come back tomorrow and we’ll give it another go. Feel free to try to influence us. What might help Bill Ritter fix Colorado is being in Colorado. (Face the State) A former Rocky reporter breaks down…

Our daily slog through the blogs. Send thy tips. When it comes to the Employees Free Choice Act — Congress’s Next Big Fight — some media outlets are either really dumb, or really dishonest. Or both. (Media Matters) Gay couples are one step closer to equal health-care rights. And somewhere,…

In this week’s Westword cover story, Joel Warner reports on the Wall Creeper, a young man who “patrols” Colorado as a “real-life superhero.” Access the story at the link above, and see photos of more superheroes from around the world at westword.com/slideshow…

So it’s pretty much the worst time in fifty years to run a sports league (NHL, anyone?). And women sports leagues have a tendency to go over like herpes at a makeout party (WUSA, anyone?). And leagues that feature a novel concept but a subpar product tend to die painful…

See more photos at westword.com/slideshow. They say we’re beaten down, beleaguered, ready to collectively empty our 401(k)s and slit our wrists with our sliced-in-half Visa cards. But if the several hundred high-heeled, high-smiled women standing in a line that stretched halfway around downtown Denver on Tuesday for an America’s Next…

These are the fruits of our daily blog-surfing labor. Make our jobs easier by sending nutritious links here. One cadet’s experience with Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: As you might guess, it pretty much sucked. It was also expensive. (Colorado Independent) Lawmakers have asked the governor to squash new oil-and-gas rules…

Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Send tips in this general direction. Developer Bobby Ginn wanted to build the Vail Valley’s poshest resort. Instead, he owes a Swiss bank $700 million. That’s gotta hurt. (Colorado Independent) Unions will be involved in the distribution of education stimulus cash. And that makes…

The Frozen Dead Guys celebration, a bizarre tribute to cryogenics and shrinkage, returned to Nederland over the weekend, and it anchors our weekend coverage at westword.com/slideshow…

Our daily peek into the local blogoshere. Send links. The NFL: The only place where a serial abuser catches a break because he catches a football. (Mile High Report) The stimulus money is on its way. But will it make a difference? (Colorado Independent and Colorado Pols) Peter Boyles thinks…

Denver’s abundance of sports teams, love of tools, and shunning of minivans and window treatments rank it among the country’s five manliest cities, according to a study released this week by the makers of cheese-filled pretzels. Combos, the delicious snack maker, and Bert Sterling, the professional bullshit city ranker, recently…

Below lies the booty from our daily local-blog treasure hunt. Send tips here. KOA’s “Gunny” Bob Newman distorts Obama’s view on immigration, which goes to show you: Never trust a guy named Gunny, unless he’s making you waffles or changing your oil. (Media Matters) Quick: Guess how much coin a…

Here lies our daily look at local blogging. Send tips. A vote to restrict medical marijuana licenses is delayed after the health board receives hundreds of protest letters, allowing patients to breathe a huge, aromatic sigh of Cherry Bomb-flavored relief. (Face the State) ACORN shows up in Aurora to protest…