All right, Colorado, I have some good news for you, and I have some bad news.
The good news is that for at least the 16th year in a row, Colorado was named the least obese state in the country, with just 19.1 percent of the population having a body mass index of 30 or more. That makes Colorado, if I’m reading the data correctly, the only place in America where less than one out of every five people is a grotesque fat slob. Way to go, gang! Give yourselves a hand. Continue reading
Here at I’m With Stupid, we love to throw caution to the wind and go on madcap adventures, so long as said adventures are suitable for both a dog and a 3-year-old boy. So it was that over Labor Day weekend we piled the family into the car and set out for a seldom-visited part of Colorado known as the Wet Mountains.
We got a late start and drove until well past dark, finally pitching our tent at a national forest campground at around 10:30 at night. The next morning, the campground host, a friendly older gentleman from Kansas City, came by to collect our fee and chat for a spell. Continue reading
I had an interesting Fourth of July this year and learned a valuable lesson in what it means to be American. Not that I was looking to be taught a lesson, mind you. Things just sort of turned out that way, as you will see.
I spent the weekend with my wife and son in the tiny hamlet of Lake City, Colo., a place so small and remote that most Coloradans are unaware of its existence. Somehow, though, thousands of Texans know about the place and flock there each summer, driving Lake City’s population, which is normally 375 or so, up to what seemed like about 5,000. Continue reading
Just when you thought the whole “Balloon Boy” saga out of Fort Collins couldn’t get any more bizarre, along comes Robert Thomas, an associate of Richard Heene, with the revelation that Heene, the boy’s father, staged the elaborate hoax in an effort to land himself a TV show in order to make enough money to save his family from the coming apocalypse.
According to Thomas’ attorney, Linda Lee, Heene thinks the world is going to end in 2012 and figured that being a TV star would net him enough cash to build an underground bunker “where he can be safe from the sun exploding.” Continue reading
There was an interesting little tidbit of information out of Aspen last week, with the Aspen Daily News reporting Wednesday on the opening of a fourth medical marijuana dispensary in the tony ski town known for its laissez-faire attitude toward drugs. The very next day the same newspaper ran a story detailing Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ concerns about the proliferation of such dispensaries around the state.
Suthers is right to be concerned. The opening of Alternative Medical Solutions in an office building in downtown Aspen added to what is now an estimated 100 or so dispensaries throughout Colorado, Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to the first installment of the New Blue Review, a name that for children of the Seventies such as myself recalls a weird old TV show (check out this clip) but is also intended to be a reference to the new, more liberal west. It’s the discussion of this region and this sentiment – and the future direction of both – that will be the focus of this blog. Well, that and trying to make this an entertaining read each week.
I suppose every endeavor should begin with a mission statement, but before we get to that let me tell you about myself so that you will have a better idea of where my thoughts are coming from. Continue reading
Todd talks about how much he dislikes Christmas carols at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale, Colorado.
Click to watch: Christmas Songs
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Todd discusses the inanity of some songs’ lyrics at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale, Colorado.
Click to watch: Dumb Song Lyrics
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You want to talk about stupid? At this very moment I’m sitting in bed at a friend’s house in Columbia, Mo., less than halfway through a 2,000-mile drive that will eventually take me from Basalt to Washington, D.C., to New Jersey and finally Connecticut.
Am I saying it’s stupid to drive across the country? Well, yes, but that’s not what’s making my particular trek so imbecilic. Continue reading
You may not know this, but there’s an entire side of a building, somewhere in New York City, painted in the likeness of Oregon running back Onterrio Smith. Why? Because that is how far some schools and their fans will go to hype a Heisman Trophy candidate.
In fact, just last year a group of Ducks boosters had the same building adorned with an image of quarterback Joey Harrington, a first-round pick of the Detroit Lions.
Harrington didn’t win the Heisman. Neither will Smith. Continue reading