QUID HAS HEARD that the world refuses to become a fairer place. Evidence of that atrocity is just to the south, where our neighbors in the tiny town of Parker were able to build themselves a giant, gorgeous performing arts facility so that they could let their public at long last see — wait for it — Air Supply. Air Supply? Egads, Air Supply. That’s right, while the state’s third-largest city has to hold concerts in city parks and “The Nutcracker” at high schools, Parker built themselves the very enviable PACE Center. What a waste. Kind of like when you’re about the only one in the ’hood’ that doesn’t have cable TV and your neighbor with the annoying yapping dogs has the Comcast truck pull up and you find out all they watch is The Shopping Channel. So while Parker folks will flock at the end of May to hear two old guys re-croon how they’re still All Out of Love (and ideas), Aurorans will be in the park this summer watching the green icing flowing down in the rain. I don’t think that I can take it.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that the last laugh you hear coming from the Secretary of State’s office is coming from the SOS himself, Republican Scott Gessler. Seems that after Colorado Ethics Watch filed an ethics complaint against Gessler last year, alleging that his billing Colorado taxpayers for attending the Republican National Convention and other partisan items is way wrong, Gessler fought back. Gessler — who started his job as SOS by telling the public he had no problem with working on the side as a political lawyer for his law firm that advises Republican interests how to get around the secretary of state’s office — says the whole thing is nothing more than Democrat whining. To prove his point, he’s racked up almost $40,000 in legal bills to defend himself against the partisan ethics charges.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that the Academy Awards of Colorado newspapers was far more sincere than the political tripe where they hand out Oscars each year. Newspapers like the very rag your faithful hack scribbles for, and other Colorado fish-wrappers such as the Denver Post, the Durango Herald and the Fort Collins Coloradoan, were time after time honored for pictures, posts, stories and columns pushing ye old Liberal agenda. The editor of this very rag brought home two lead-type Oscars this year for his endless blabbering about gay rights, gun control, kissing up to illegal immigrants and yadda, yadda, yadda. There was little sex this year. In the past the Colorado convention of rags on parade has also been lewd.  Quid would point out the front-page package pick of a guy in short pants on the cover of the now-dead Rocky Mountain News and more than one “pubic” school or official gracing every page of every newspaper in every Colorado town. But this year’s show featured the usual scruffy hacks in wrinkled clothes sporting bags under their eyes instead of under their breasts and buns as they brought home the gold.

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS