It must feel like quite a threat to these little bureaucrats with cow patties for brains who signed this letter, to think that people might start believing that their governments are supposed to be doing what they want instead of doing the bidding of the oil and gas dick who bought their last round of golf.

Oh, how we cherish moments like this, when CU-Boulder announces that it is bringing in three finalists for its chair in right-wing politics, er, Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. Sorry.

On the heels of The Denver Post naming Erie Rising, an anti-fracking group formed by local concerned mothers, among its “Top Thinkers of 2012,” the mayor of Erie apparently thought it would be a good idea to throw these forward-minded community leaders under the bus.

It’s almost amusing — if it weren’t so pitiful — that as of this week, this bastion of clerking and recording competency still had not paid canvass board members the measly $125 they earned for their time-consuming work last fall.

Note to Councilwoman Becker: Not only should you get out of Boulder once in a while, but if you’re going to try and govern a city the size of Boulder, you should know that our cops don’t live here because it’s too damn expensive to own a home on what they get paid.

But we’re rather more concerned about the effects of this most recent cold spell on Boulder’s homeless population, which we’re betting that many attending the elk’s candlelight vigil don’t like to think about.

With a straight face, Brennan told all of America that he had personally witnessed the raid live as bin Laden put up a fierce fire fight, eventually grabbing a defenseless woman as a human shield just before he died a coward’s death, only hours after he had been watching porn while stroking his newly dyed beard with great vanity.

Anybody else tired of hearing the state of Colorado continuously lie to us about how it has the toughest restrictions on oil and gas drilling in the nation?

We like how they refer to the birds as “who.” But the best part about the press release announcing this event was the link (bit.ly/ VPYGKy) to a video with actress Alicia Silverstone showing how millions of geese and ducks are plucked while they are still alive, which PETA describes as “a traumatic and painful experience.

What a shocker. The Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) is suing the city of Longmont over its voter-approved fracking ban.