Boulder is a Stoopid Place

I say that “Boulder is a Stoopid Place”. This article posted late today on the Daily Camera web site starts out:

CLINTON, N.Y. (AP) — A University of Colorado professor who compared the

victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to Nazis has ignited

protests on a college campus where he’s been invited to speak.

His disrespect for Capitalism and free enterprise come through loud and clear…

In a treatise titled, “Some People Push Back,” written after the attacks,

Churchill asserted the 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center worked for

“the mighty engine of profit” but chose to ignore their role.

“True enough, they were civilians of a sort,” he wrote. “But innocent?

Gimme a break.”

I simply don’t understand how working for a private company that wants to make a profit gets you the honor of being the target of a hijacked airplane. I’m not the least bit surprised this guy hangs out and infects students at the University of Colorado and it wouldn’t surprise me if he has a good sized cult following in Boulder.

Makes me sick.

Well my post on Boulder County land use will have to wait another day. Twenty minutes of work just went down the drain and I don’t have the energy to start over. I’m learning but it’s slow going. I’ve got to make this blogging thing a little bit more spontaneous, but between learning the tools and trying to be “perfect” (yea, what a joke!) it’s slow going. I’m working on it!

Today I stopped by the bank to make a deposit. On the few Saturday’s I’ve stopped in, they’ve had fresh donuts and coffee, and today was no exception. As I approached the entrance out walks this “guy” with three donuts in a napkin (and there easily could have been one in his other hand that he was eating). I’m sorry I just don’t get it. I noted how many donuts there were as I entered and they don’t stock the donuts for each person to take three! I wonder what went through his head when he grabed way over his “allotment”? Is there a “revenge motive” for excessive fee’s? Does he thinks he’s better then the rest of us or is it just pure thoughtlessness? Regardless, I color it rude.

Oh well, not going to change the world, but I feel better! Oh and I had ONE donut on my way out. 😉

Prairie Dogs enjoy a unique status in Boulder. Everyone loves them but no one wants them. Boulder’s previous “save the prairie

At the offices of the local Boulder Newspaper this apparently qualifies as a book review. The book is Michael Crichton’s latest science fiction book, “State of Fear”. Through the book Crichton takes aim at the global warming crowd using data from scientific studies and includes footnotes. The fact that someone could use scientific studies to question the global warming crowd throws the reviewer into a rant. Some favorite one liners are:

“Now, assuming you are not on the board of a major oil company and you are not

Ann Coulter, would you rush out to the nearest bookstore for your copy?”

… and after expressing dismay at Crichton’s thesis and documented evidence that is just so crazy we run into Ann Coulter again…

“Keeping in mind that you are still not Ann Coulter, does this sound like a “must-read”?”

I haven’t read the book and it isn’t even close to the top of my “must read” list. However, to think that a rant like this can make it into the major local newspaper was stunning to me! Color me naive I suppose.

For a more straightforward book review and to actually learn something about “State of Fear”, try here!

Obviously there’s room for discussion on Crichton’s footnotes, paid research, etc, and a book reviewer is supposed to have an opinion, just not be a raving lunatic.