Yee! Also haw! It's the Colorado (news) Roundup!

Smile when I say that, pard.

Reaction to the Ward Report at the RMN blog is the usual semi-literate back-and-forth among the cognescenti, so just one summatory quote:

Ward Churchill is the fungating tip of a deeper cancer destroying Universities across the US.

Fungating. Describes the Drunkablog perfectly. (And notice how the D-blog upped his own vocabularity--"cognescenti," "summatory"-- to honor this fine word?)

Letter to the Editor: Where have hippies, their idealism gone? Maybe to Aspen for the summer. And you'll probably find lots of 'em at the Rainbow Gathering next month.

Sleeper

house sells after four years on the market. According to the News, "The price . . . paid wasn't disclosed, but those familiar with the deal said it sold for less than the asking price of $4.85 million, which already was less than half the original asking price of $10 million."

Here's the house:

Can you figure it out? Who wouldn't want to spend $10 million on a "clam-shaped" concrete house overlooking I-70? Woody Allen made a movie there, for Chrissakes!

Denver officials warn that they've, uh, misplaced 150,000 voter records.

Oops, found (most of) 'em!

An unusual manner of death: Sculptor killed by creation for DIA. That mustang was after him, man.

Finally, in local perv news, two (!) stories: High school teacher tries to hire teen for fight; and Colorado court: 15-year-olds [maybe even 12-year-olds] can marry under common law.

Update: Story updated.

Update II: RMN: Marriage ruling a "real shocker."