Faster Than a Speeding Ballot Kenny Be's "1998 Overloaded Voter Guide," in the October 22 issue, was a perfect summation of this campaign season. I plan to take it with me when I vote, because it's the only thing I've seen that makes sense of these ballot measures. I'm only...
Win SOme, Lose Some Talk about sore losers! Patricia Calhoun needs to get over herself: The Broncos got their new stadium fair and square ("Let Us Pray," November 5). Just because Calhoun is out of step with the majority of Denver-area voters (what a surprise!), she wants to play the...
Think of John Elway and the rest of the Broncos' offense trying to score without their front line. Or the Avalanche endlessly trying to kill an eternal double penalty. Now you know what it's like to work in Secretary of State Vikki Buckley's division of commercial recordings, which is struggling...
No Paean, No Gain Regarding Robin Chotzinoff's "What's Your Status?" in the November 12 issue: Just another paean of praise for Chotzinoff and her talent for deflating the pompous (the New York Times, for instance), for reporting with accuracy and compassion (the farmers she asked the Times's absurd question about...
It used to be so simple. Each fall, when the leaves turned and you wanted chile, real chile, the kind that made your sinuses clear and your belly warm, you'd drive past the tracks and beyond the highway to an empty lot in the country, where an old farmer wearing...
Plugging Away Chris LaMorte's September 10 "The Mom Squad" teaches us how, through the magic of one dead little girl and the power of the Internet, people without actual lives of their own can fill the long days and nights by exchanging cyberjabber over America's telephone system. And unlike its...
Touched by and Angle Patricia Calhoun's "An Unhealthy Situation," in the October 8 issue, hit the nail on the head. How can organizations work effectively to help victims if the organizations can't work together? Thanks for bringing this to the public's attention. I hope you plan to continue coverage of...
Ex Marks the Spat Regarding Ward Harkavy's "Fact or Friction?" in the October 1 issue: The very idea that gays come from bad families, smothering mothers, etc., is absurd, to say the least. I know many gays, including myself, who come from very loving families where "the lifestyle" was never...
An Old-Age Problem I could not read Stuart Steers "Dying for Dollars," in the October 15 issue, to completion because of the painful memories it brought back. After a stay in Lutheran Hospital, my mother was transferred to Cedars Health Care Center for rehabilitation in late 1996. I chose Cedars...
Justice, Boulder Style Thanks for a great article on Alex "See No Evil" Hunter (Juliet Wittman's "He Aims to Plea," September 24). I can only hope that as Election Day 2000 nears, the people of Boulder will finally do the right thing and vote him out. As inbred as Boulder...
Suicide Botch I read Patricia Calhoun's August 20 "Suicide Mission" with great interest, as I have worked in the psychiatric field for ten-plus years and have evaluated individuals for lethality. If the documents in this case regarding aftercare instructions are true, West Pines should probably be prepared for a settlement,...
Kerouac Shlepped Here According to the August 6 Off Limits, Woody Harrelson wanted to see places in Denver where Jack Kerouac had been. Sadly, most of those places are gone. But the real bad news was delivered in your August 13 issue, with Jack Boulware's excellent article, "The Howls That...
A Detoxing Situation On the behalf of every person who has ever had to deal with living institutionalized, I applaud Eric Dexheimer's "Used and Abused," in the July 23 issue. I was once inside our system of social services, whose greatest injustice has always been disorganization and a gross lack...
Fast and Furious Regarding Tony Perez-Giese's "Pulling a Fast One," in the September 3 issue: George Orwell, here we come! It's not enough that local and state governments in many cities around the country feel the need to put cameras in public areas to "protect" us. Now they want to...
An Icky Situation Bad enough that, come November, we're going to get stuck in the voting booth for hours trying to figure out the ballot measures. Now you tell me that some of them are there only because Vikki Buckley screwed up (Eric Dexheimer's "The Buckley Stops Here," September 17)?...
Ideas come to Henry Badgett. While he's watering flowers in his front yard. Taking a shower. Sleeping. Standing. Making meatloaf. Suddenly a lightbulb flashes over his head. A fairy taps his shoulder. A tree falls in the forest. A mushroom cloud blasts through the stratosphere. "It just happens, man," he...
See Bill Run Regarding Ward Harkavy's "Making Book on Bill Owens," in the August 6 issue: Okay, okay! I surrender! If I promise to vote for anyone other than Bill Owens, will you quit writing is-he-or-isn't-he stories about Owens's supposed ties to the religious right? The only thing more boring...
Don't Have a Cow, Man Megan Hall's "Not a Pretty Picture," in the July 9 issue, paints in unintentionally comic perspective a most cherished modern sacred bovine: the notion that art and its purveyors are "loftier" than useful things like hotdogs and those who vend them. This notion and the...
Saving Private Calhoun Regarding Patricia Calhoun's "Private Lives," in the August 27 issue: What happened--did Ms. Calhoun take a nice pill last week? It's difficult to believe she actually has a family, much less can write movingly about one of her ancestors. But once I got over my shock, and...
A Schlong Time Coming I'm as enamored of the title of Harrison Fletcher's July 23 "The Schlong Goodbye" as I am with the copyrighted, patented and trademarked "The Penisster System" being the name of the medical prosthesis developed by Henry Badgett. The article itself is another thing. Mr. Badgett is...
Field of Schemes Kudos to Stuart Steers for his July 16 "Cash and Carry," on how the Colorado Rockies took taxpayers to the cleaners on the Coors Field lease. I guarantee you the Broncos are hoping for the same sweetheart deal for Pat (Bowlen)'s Profit Palace. I'll also wager the...
Yawn Care Your (yawn) Best of Denver (yawn) issue had such (yawn) variety from the (yawn) past few years' issues (yawn). It was really interesting (yawn) reading all about Aimee Sporer's (yawn) hair again, and (yawn) all those neato paragraphs by you clever Westword staffers about such (yawn) really cool...
