QUID HAS HEARD that this year’s worst-taste award goes without paws to PETA. The group that always hopes to do so much good by doing so much bad has asked Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson to put accused Century 16 Aurora massacre shooter James Holmes on a vegetarian diet, according to Westword. Seems PETA wants to pull the spotlight focusing on Holmes to itself and its cause to get people to stop killing animals for food, lederhosen and car seats. It’s an honorable cause made into a dead duck by linking one of the most horrific acts of human violence in the country’s recent history to what Disney refers to as the “circle of life.” In response to PETA’s grim sense of marketing, Quid offers the PETA types who thunk this thing up this favorite recipe to be served in jail the next time members are socked away for vandalism: eggs in a hole.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that it appears the A-List has seen better days, and entertainment. Seems that the Aurora Economic Development Council, which in the past has brought the likes of President Bill Clinton, Sam Donaldson and even Andre Agasi for your economic-developmental amusement, this year will bring B-list actor B.J. Novak to its Oct. 11 Downtown Denver soiree. Who? Exactly.  For those who know “The Office” is a TV show and not where you go to work, he plays the role of Ryan Howard. Huh. Want more? He also was Baker Smurf in The Smurfs. Of course AEDC could use a little levity after seeing the ballyhooed Gaylord Hotel and the ballyhooed GE solar panel plant slip through their ballyhooed fingers. Quid hopes this isn’t a portent for the fab eco-devo squad, which could well soon be reduced to announcing such job-creating coups as a new 7-Eleven or extended hours at the Central Library.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that PETA doesn’t have a monopoly on bad taste in Aurora. Seems the marginal comedian Jeffrey Ross highlighted his own insensitivity at a TV roast of professionally insensitive comedian Roseanne Barr. During a taping of the show last week, Ross compared fellow roaster and far-less marginal Seth Green to Aurora mass murderer James Holmes. “I’m kidding,” Ross reportedly followed, according to ABC News and others.  “You’re not like James Holmes. At least he’s doing something in a movie theater that people remember.”

Why this was any more offensive than Ross’ usual mind-numbing banter is a mystery, but don’t expect to hear it for yourself when the roast airs on Comedy Central. It’s been cut.

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS.