Chainsaws and Chuckwagons

Wish I’d found time to get out for this last week. Looks like the carvers did an amazing job again this year. We used to go every year with the girls. These guys are no doubt some of the most talented artists we have around these parts – and their medium is logs and saws.

Another One Gone Too Soon

The cornetist, composer and bandleader Ron Miles combined a distinctly American harmonic palette with an openhearted emotional clarity uncommon in modern jazz.
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SNL’s Hittin’ Again

Haven’t caught up this week yet, but the cold open hit for me. SNL’s been a bit uneven in recent years. I think seeing them plugging shyt for Verizon and whatnot has turned me off SNL. But they got this part right:

Guns are probably the biggest thing giving the Trumplicans enough balls to mob-up and storm The Capitol. Without weapons, they are just a bunch of squalid legislators leading a legion of buffoons that wouldn’t know an insurrection from a protest.

Boebert Video Montage

Props to JimmyK for capturing some of the most moronic of Lauren, leader of the Colorado loony bin delegation’s, more recent public embarrassments. Framing it in her true nature of utter lunacy couldn’t be more accurate.

Bobitch is one of the most vile of the Jan 6th co-conspirators and belongs in prison.

You Know Something’s Wrong…

…when al Jazzera runs leading stories about a cop killing in a genteel Denver suburb two years ago. Like I told Tanner and anybody who will listen: The cops are out of control – have been for a long time. Police harbor an authoritarian attitude and culture incompatible with society today. Not that bigotry and hatred are emerging apparitions. On the contrary – they are finally out in the open for everyone to see, and it ain’t pretty.

We can only hope Elijah’s death serves to highlight this problem, supporting ongoing, positive reforms in policing across the country. That process should be underway with criminal charges and several more firings in Aurora. They like splattering the lip service on their cars, but still need reminded the fundamental basis for their jobs is who works for who.

The cost is too high.

“Other investigations are under way. The U.S. Department of Justice. The Colorado Attorney General’s office. Millions will be paid out in civil cases. Maybe someday, someone will even be charged in McClain’s death.”

Like I said last year: Fuck the Police.