CON GAMES: How I Learned To Love The Bomb

Given the world we Americans now live in — with assault weapons and snipers and innocent civilians and police falling like flies — it should have come as no surprise that we had a bomb in our suburban subdivision over the weekend.

Star Eagle Has A Few Theories About Conspiracies

Whodunit on 9/11? Star Eagle has a few theories for the Con Man:

Michael,

This is just a bit of what I am talking about. The major thing here is that this is all old news. Not just stuff coming…

CON GAMES: Life Never Better For Sheriff Bob

Fifteen hundred pounds of marijuana is a whole lot of pot, even in Pitkin County, but 1,500 pounds is not nearly enough for Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials to alert Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis that a major drug ring is doing business…

Sure Hope ‘Bombed’ Won’t Bomb

Okay, well, gulp — here goes. My one-act play “Bombed” has a staged reading by Theatre Aspen this Sunday night, August 13, 2006, under the tent at Rio Grande Park at 7:30 PM. Herewith the script. It has two things going for it: it’s short and the reading is FREE! Hope you can…

CON GAMES: Mamet, Miller, And The Ole Hitcheroo Switcheroo

If you’re like me, blognoscenti, then you might have wondered more than once how a previously enlightened smarty-pants celeb can switch so effortlessly to a philosophy found abhorrent but five minutes before.

CON GAMES: Aspen Conspiracy Theories

Begin your bad novel this way, with a series of unfortunate events.

The convicted CEO dies unexpectedly of heart trouble heretofore undetected in Old Snowmass pending appeal. Then the former Secretary of State, a former chair of the Joint…

CON GAMES: Aspen’s Big Lie

Why hammer a man so beloved? Why criticize the most popular politician every to walk these particular crags of the Rockies?

One way it is to make sure you don’t really know the man, that you won’t take the chance of succumbing to his charm. The other piece…

Immigration Explained

This letter on immigration arrived in the Con Man’s mailbox:

During World War II there were few men at home, and men were needed for farm labor. So the United States imported Mexicans. They were just south of the border, and it seemed very practical. So they…

CON GAMES: Sheriff In Full Squirm Mode

Like a heavyeweight boxer who stayed far too long in the ring, Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis fended off the blows of younger and perhaps even lesser people Wednesday night at the “Squirm Night” debate at the Red Brick Center for the Arts shown on Grass Roots…

CON GAMES: Elaine Pagels, Literally

Where have you gone Jerry Falwell?

In the mists of the Tea Party nonsense, it is perilously easy to miss the fact that the Kool-Aid of the Evangelical Right has grown lukewarm, tepid, and downright stanky.