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…

CON GAMES: Farewell, Howie Berg

I have never been one to get choked up at funerals before, but then I had never been to a memorial service for Howie Berg, a beloved Aspen local who died just days ago in a Denver hospital.

Con Blog: Are Mormons Real Christians?

Mr. Conniff,

I have enjoyed listening to your program numerous mornings and have wanted to call in almost every day to let you know how much I like the show. I don’t call in, since I am driving to work and do not have the ability to…

Con Blog: Hell Explained

Here’s an email I got forwarded on to me:

HELL EXPLAINED BY CHEMISTRY STUDENT

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington
chemistry mid term.

CON GAMES: Commies Take On Capitalist Pigs In Aspen

The basic divide between the candidates running for Mayor of Aspen is as obvious and invisible as the Berlin Wall: the difference between Communism and Capitalism.

CON GAMES: Booing Barry Bonds

SAN FRANCISCO — I take this idea of booing a sports god with more seriousness than usual here by the Bay because of what my Daddy’s mommy told my Daddy a long time ago: “Never put it in writing, son. They’ll only hold it against you.”

CON GAMES: Back In The Day With Herbie Hancock

Buried deep in the bowels of my musical archives are a set of live tapes recorded at the Jazz Workshop and Paul’s Mall in Boston in the Year of our Lord 1973. A local radio station played the sets live, and when I went to the shows myself I…

CON GAMES: The Myth Of Fingerprints

The closest I’ve ever come to understanding classical mythology are the mostly unreal, unread copies of Edith Hamilton and Ovid, both deceased, by my bedstand.

Mythology in the classic sense is the study of those gods a and ungoldy…

CON GAMES: Why Ali Gets A Pass

A week ago today was Martin Luther King Day. Two days later came the 65th birthday of Muhammad Ali. And Sunday two African-American coaches got their ticket punched to the Super Bowl, the first time a black head coach ever brought a team to the big party.