You’ve probably noted the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s apparent “profiling” of groups aligned with the Tea Party. A discussion on the issue broke out here at S&R this week, with our colleague Sid Bonesparkle suggesting on our internal e-mail forum that perhaps such action, even if it only involved a couple of “rogue” […]
Saturday Video Roundup: “Imagine the Band,” by John Lennon and Wings
If you play it backward you can hear Paul singing “eat your vegetables.”
Blatter “appalled” by racist abuse of Balotelli: hey Sepp – less talk, more action
Racist abuse of AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli by AS Roma fans in yesterday’s Serie A match caused the official to briefly suspend play. After an PA announcement warning the offending supporters to cease and desist, the game was resumed. While these things are hardly uncommon in Italian football (or throughout the rest of Europe, […]
Saturday Video Roundup: Natalie Maines, out on her own
Natalie Maines has a new solo CD set to drop Tuesday. It’s entitled Mother, and it’s simply wonderful. If you’d like a preview you can stream it at NPR. I think we can now safely call Maines a former C&W artist. Mother, which is largely a collaboration with Ben Harper and his band, lies solidly to […]
I’m trying to take Tim Brando at his word, but he isn’t making it easy
Earlier today my colleague Otherwise uncorked on sports broadcaster Tim Brando for his reaction to the Jason Collins story. If you somehow missed it, NBA journeyman and free agent Collins publicly acknowledged on Monday that he is gay, making him the first active player in a US major sport to do so. Brando brought a […]
WTF? Happy May Day from Colorado (STFU weather, anyone?)
Monday it was in the 80s here in Denver. This weekend the forecast calls for pretty, seasonal weather in the upper 50s. But today is May Day, the midpoint of springtime. What better opportunity for Mother Nature to show off a bit. Here’s Ronan MacScottie, out for his morning constitutional a few minutes ago. Happy […]
Dear Mark Jackson: STFU
Shut the Fuck Up Week continues here at S&R, I guess. After Denver’s 107-101 win over Golden State in last night’s Game 5 of their first-round playoff series, Warriors coach Mark Jackson accused the Nuggets of playing dirty. “They tried to send hit men at Steph,” Jackson said in his postgame news conference following the […]
Five-day weather forecast for Denver, CO: STFU
Seems like everywhere I’ve ever been people like to say this: “If you don’t like the weather around here, wait 15 minutes and it’ll change.” It’s a funny thing to say, but it’s never true. Today it was in the 80s here in the 5280. Here’s the forecast for the rest of the week: Just […]
Boston Marathon bombing: can we at least speculate logically?
The speculation began before the smoke cleared: who was responsible for Monday’s terror attack at the Boston Marathon? What was their motive? Not only is it human to speculate, it’s just about impossible for us not to. We’re inherently theoretical animals, constantly seeking more informed and reliable ways of understanding and explaining (and predicting) how the […]
PSY’s “Gentleman” vs. The Lost Patrol’s Driven: Nickelback wept
Rhetorical Question of the Day: In anticipation of the new song release from K-Pop star PSY, we anticipated that: a) he’d boldly break off to forge new and innovative artistic directions b) he’d pimp that “Gangnam Style” formula like a four-dollar whore at the Republican National Convention I thought so. For my part, I wondered […]






