IT'S AN ASK MY ANYTHING SORT OF DAY And I'm going to do it by PHONE. YES, PHONE. I miss phone calls too, you guys.
THAT TIME NPR PARTICIPATED IN THE GOVERNMENT COVERUP You know I'm talking about Covid and this column by David Strom at Hotair.com is about an NPR interview with a guy who has written a new book about how NPR silenced stories that didn't fit the narrative and now these people are going to PROFIT off their own malfeasance by writing books about it! THE NERVE. David joins me at 1pm to discuss it.
SO EXACTLY WHAT ENDED UP IN THE TRANS RIGHT ANTI-PARENT BILL? A LOT has been made of SB25-1312 and rightfully so. As first written it was a dreadful attack on parental rights and those provisions have been stripped. How do I know? Ari Armstrong did a good post mortem here and the bill is far better than it used to be, but as Armstrong asserts, a complete mess. Read more here.
HERE'S HOW REPUBLICANS TRIED TO SAVE YOU MONEY THIS SESSION And of course every bill was killed by Democrats. Read it here.
SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS: DIA EDITION Can you afford a first class ticket to Spain? I sure can't. But if you work for DIA you sure can, because taxpayers are going to foot the bill! NINE executives from DIA flew to Madrid, Spain and they flew first or business class, with a couple of tickets costing almost 20 grand EACH. The casual dismissal by DEN CEO Phil Washington is especially galling. When asked about it, he had this to say:
"our policy allows us to do that."
Well your policy needs to be changed. He went on to say that the team had to "hit the ground running" even though the conference didn't start until the following day. I'm not saying they need to be crammed into economy, but anything above Premium Economy needs to be on their own dime, period. Pay for your own upgrade. There are also questions about one member who overstayed the trip to travel around Europe for a couple of weeks, which is clearly against policy. Washington says he didn't know about THAT policy, just the one that allowed him to bilk bill taxpayers for a luxury most of us will never be able to afford. Let me repeat this: no government employee should use taxpayer dollars for luxury travel. Period.
A DOORDASH DUMMY IS CAUGHT ON CAMERA People suck sometimes but sometimes it comes back to bite them when they are especially stupid. A DoorDash driver dropped off food at an apartment complex and decided to help himself to a package at a neighbors house. It was all caught on someone's doorbell camera. DoorDash says they are looking into it, but if I were the dude whose stuff was stolen I'd hire a lawyer to send a stern letter to move things along. Surely they will catch this idiot. Surely.
WHAT'S IN DPS'S HAPLESS LEADER'S NEW CONTRACT? The man who has overseen the backward slide of student achievement in Denver Public Schools has been given a sweetheart contract that ties the hands of future boards when it comes to firing him. It doesn't matter what the contract says, when he's fired, and he should be fired, he will sue and say it's racism. Maybe then we can talk about how this board took out his "performance bonus" structure while jacking his pay and giving him a YEAR of severance if he gets canned. Just look at this part:
The contract changes also include:
• A two-year extension until June 2028.
• The removal of the performance pay structure.
• An added 5-2 supermajority vote requirement to remove the superintendent without cause. (The current contract only required a simple majority vote.)
Why would they add in that supermajority part? Because the rotten board which needs to be replaced this November wants to make sure their dogged incompetence continues well into the future. Oh, and in his performance review HE will provide an evaluation of HIMSELF for the Board to use. This is beyond comical. But again, the children will be the victims here, as they still can't read and write on grade level.
LEGISLATOR'S CARS ARE VANDALIZED And of course they are in vibrant downtown Denver. It was a bipartisan crime, as one Republican and one Democrat got their cars attacked by the same dude, a vibrant Denver community member. Read more here.
POLIS WILL VETO THE BAD LABOR BILL Which is good, but he's already talking about having a special session if Congress cuts Medicaid spending. My guess is that Congress is going to move towards a block grant program for Medicaid, which will end the gravy train of endless federal reimbursements and force us to focus on who Medicaid was actually designed for, which is very poor people. Jared Polis says that Medicaid covers about 20% of Coloradans when our poverty rate is 9.4%. Those numbers don't match. But let's focus on the good news that he will veto this bad labor bill.
THIS IS THE WAY TO REACH KIDS A nerdy guy who was supposed to speak to high school students decided to use their own language to make the point and it's magic.
THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR FAKE LIBERTARIAN GOVERNOR IS SEEPING OUT FINALLY. Sherrie Peif writes here about how Reason magazine, the most prominent libertarian publication out there, has finally started to realize that our Governor is no kind of libertarian. It's about time.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THOSE MOTHERS OUT THERE And if you looking for something fun to do find stuff here, or go to Black Eyed Pea, or buy a gift card to Beau Visage Skin Care and Spa here. Just trying to make things easy for you.
THE NEFARIOUS PURPOSE OF THE FREE LUNCH PROGRAM Jon Caldara writes here about how it teaches, very insidiously, how to be dependent on the government. He's not wrong. I also have gotten several emails from JeffCo parents whose kids were given EBT cards for the summer without anyone asking. Has this happened to you?
THE 88 DRIVE IN IS OPEN AGAIN Even though they were supposed to close in 2023. They just announced they are open for the summer this Friday with no mention of the prior plans to close so there you have it.
WHY DON'T LOLLIPOPS COME WITH INSTRUCTIONS Because we would all know this then. Watch below or click here.
WE ARE DRIVING ENTREPRENEURS OUT OF COLORADO And if you missed the Rossover to the Mandyverse, you missed this.
SOME TRUMP NOMINEES ARE CAUSING A FLAP But it's coming from the MAHA activists who have decided Dr. Casey Means, who is a staunch advocate of cleaning up our food supply and making sure the FDA is free from corruption from the drug companies it regulates, isn't MAHA enough on vaccines. Stop people. Just stop. Now we have Judge Jeanine Pirro as US Attorney in DC, which is sure to garner criticism from people who ONLY know her tv work and not her resume. This is why we can't have nice things.
WHY ARE WE BRINGING BACK THE WORD RETARDED? Don't get me wrong, there are appropriate uses of the word retarded, as in "her emotional growth was retarded by the incident". But long ago activists for people with developmental disabilities asked people to stop using the word and we've mostly said okay. Now the right wing sphere is using it again and trying to make it cool and I'm just confused. Is this a pushback against the language police? I at least get that, but why this word? I'm not sure this is a net positive but here we are. I guess feel free to use the word but it says more about you than it says about anything else.
WHY NOT BRING BACK HEIL HITLER TOO Which is just what Kanye West did in his new song called Heil Hitler, which is oddly a song about him losing his kids. You can read about it here, but I can't play it on the air because of the language.
THE MOST SORORITY GIRL SPACE MOMENT EVER Y'all. Just y'all. Watch below or click here.
THEY ARE COMING FOR FETTERMAN Which is super ironic because they told us that when he was "campaiging" and couldn't put two words together he was FINE. But now that he has left the Democrat reservation by coming out in support of Israel and other unpopular positions we're supposed to believe he's lost his mind. Okay, Democrats. Okay.
LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE SOUTH ISN'T GREAT And as a southerner by birth I can tell you that obesity and drug addiction are a huge part of this based on the states at the bottom of the list. Read them here.
THE FEDERAL RETIREMENT CAVE WILL BE CLOSING One of the most shocking things we've found out from DOGE is that all federal retirement processes were handled on PAPER and stored in a giant Pennsylvania cave. I'm not making this up. Now the system has been automated, something that was supposed to happen a DECADE ago.
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IS THERE AN IDEAL NUMBER OF SEXUAL PARTNERS? It depends on why you're asking I would imagine. This article has decided the "socially acceptable" number of sexual partners is 4-5 for men, with 2-3 of them being casual hookups. For women, of course, the number is lower. They say women are allowed 2-3 partners with 1 or 2 being casual hookups. Does this seem right to you? This seems silly considering the average American has 14 partners in their lives. Honestly the number of people you've had sex with is no one's business but your own, unless you're married and still hooking up.
HARRISON FORD TALKS ABOUT ROLES HE DIDN'T GET And did so in a very funny way. Watch below or click here.
RUSSELL WESTBROOK MAKES FUNERAL PLANNING EASIER And the NBA player is part of a team bringing a new AI tool to make funeral planning simpler to life. Read more here.
VIRGINIA GOES AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA USE BY KIDS And my first reaction to seeing this story about how Virginia is limiting social media use for underage kids to one hour per day was irritation, as it undercuts parental authority. Then I read on and found out parents DO remain in control, and this is just trying to force social media companies to do a better job at enforcing rules for underage kids. I'm still not sure if I like this.