The Rockies win the pennant

I'll never be able to show my face at Kauffman Stadium again.
I'm sorry, my long-suffering Royals, but my loyalty for the next two weeks is with the NL-best Colorado Rockies.
All I ask is that the rest of my fellow Denver fans express their incredible joy for the Rockies' berth in the World Series in a constructive, nonviolent fashion.
Let's savor this... all those nail-biters, all those late games on the West Coast, all those days with fingers crossed for the Rockies to stay in contention for the wild card...
We are witnessing history in the making, and few things are more magical that Major League Baseball in October — the Fall Classic. Let's go Rockies!
And forgive me, Royals.

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Stop Hitting Yourself or How The Conservatives Learn To Stop Worrying And Love Mitt Romney

It's a contradiction of the anti-contradictory crowd.
America seems to loathe, with 100 percent of its being, politicians who change their minds over the years on the issues.
Does this ring a bell: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
That one sentence lost the 2004 presidential election for John Kerry, more so than the Swift Boat Veterans smear campaign or any other tool of rhetoric lobbed at the Senator from Massachusetts.
People just could not reconcile the fact that John Kerry took seemingly different stances on the same issue over time.
That's right, Mitt Romney, we're getting to you right now.
The former governor of Massachusetts (what is it about the Northeast, anyway?) and most recognizable Mormon in America beyond Warren Jeffs (albeit a fundamentalist cult leader) and Bill Paxton (who plays one on TV), Romney has taken aim at a group running a campaign ad he doesn't particularly care for?
The culprits: The Log Cabin Republicans, a grassroots organization of gay and lesbian rights supporters who also like small government, etc.
Their recent campaign ad, which I caught while stomaching the Fox News Channel this week, takes Romney's statements from the past ("youthful indiscretions," maybe?) before he cozied up to the far-right end of the political spectrum and uses them to paint the picture of Romney as a moderate -- the implication being Romney has flip-flopped on the issues now that he has found a home with the anti-choice, anti-gun control crowd.
See for yourself:

It just makes me wonder if a public that seems so fed-up with President George W. Bush (who has been deemed "dead certain" in his convictions by some) and his refusal to rethink the course of action in Iraq, that Mitt Romney's ability to re-evaluate the issues and take a stand against his former self would seem like a breath of fresh air.
When things go wrong, is the fear of having a "flip-flopper" in the Oval Office so great that we maintain the status quo? The people who are most fond of saying "9/11 changed everything" want no change at all, it seems.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a conservative GOP presidential candidate this year more in tune with the hard-right values permeating the country currently than Mitt Romney; Fred Thompson would rank up there if I could take him seriously.
Romney's in a bad situation as his campaign labels his own words as a personal negative attack against him... I feel they're too timid to be as unabashed as Kerry was about the change of heart.
It's a shame... the Log Cabin Romney sounded a lot better than most of the GOP presidential hopefuls I've listened to thus far.

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The worst man in sports

So, Keith Olbermann, the San Diego Chargers' loss to the Kansas City Chiefs was SO shocking?

Really?

Okay, full disclosure: I am, in fact, a Kansas City Chiefs fan... more than two years living in the Denver metro area hasn't dampened the almost lifelong love I have for the boys in red and gold. Mind you, I have little against the Broncos (except for those two weeks a year where KC must do battle with Denver)... so bear with me.

Mr. Olbermann, while pontificating on "Football Night in America" Sunday evening, he made it sound as if Chargers, they of the same hometown as the Famous Chicken, had a breakdown in the vein of the New York Mets this year or the Roman Empire in the Third Century C.E.

Puh-lease, Mr. Olbermann. How many other 2006 playoff teams have you given such degrading treatment to? Lest I remind the world, Oakland, Kansas City, Green Bay and Detroit all have two wins or more now that Week Four heads to its zenith.

No, I won't make any silly "SportsCenter" jokes. Mr. Olbermann now conducts himself with a bit more seriousness than the irreverent ESPN show usually espoused, nevermind his unrelenting need to bash just about anyone while letting those not-so-well-acquainted with his profession to mistaken him for an honest-to-goodness journalist.

But Keith, give the Chiefs a chance. Two wins in a row, they must be doing something right. I'm just glad no one gave him a pulpit (yet) to lament on the Texas Longhorns' disastrous loss to my alma mater, Kansas State University.

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