QUID HAS HEARD that Americans are getting the wrong impression about our fair hamlet after Congressman Mike Coffman politically set himself on fire with his birther bravado last week. Seems HBO comic-newsevangelist Bill Maher took on Coffman during a show segment on May 28. Maher referred to Coffman as the congressman from “Douchebagville.” Blink, blink, blink. Hey, that would be us, Aurora. Quid wants the world to understand that Coffman’s status as an elected douchebag should in no way reflect on the potential douchebagness of Aurora. To set the record straight, few Aurora voters put Congressman Coffman in office. It was only this year that his district boundaries were changed to make Aurora the 6th Congressional District. Previously, it was the Jeffco, DougCo Tea Party pirates under Tennessee Tancredo that elevated Coffman to his own bully pulpit. Quid assumes this must be how Texans feel.

AND SPEAKING OF DOUCHEBAGS, QUID HAS HEARD that when Aurora Sentinel Editor Dave Perry got his Twitter account hacked into, it was a hacking that just kept on racking. Seems those who tune into the wild rants of the Sentinel’s tired, old chief hack were only too thrilled to see “what crazy (feces)” Dave tweeted about (you) and (you) and, you get the idea. Perry owes an apology not for his acid antics, but for making his fans suffer through password changes for the price of admission.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that the water’s great at City Hall these days, and other government types should come on in. Seems city hoo haws are plotting a way to make Aurora its own city, county and possibly country, and they may beg voters to raise taxes to build trains along I-225. Jeepers, all this from a city government that just a few months ago shut down libraries and told advocates of those freezing to death on Colfax to “go fish.” Regardless, grumpy folks from Aurora’s step-sister to the west are all harrumphed at the proposal to raise Aurora taxes to make good on light-rail promises that RTD can’t keep. One wag was overheard to insist that Aurora whiners are just too impatient, seeing how RTD would be laying tracks by 2020 or so. 2020? After Quid gets a flying car? Ain’t nobody going be riding RTD’s sorry old trains by then. It’s now or never, folks.

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS.