QUID HAS HEARD that there’s nothing sweeter than a shared joke to make good friends out of tense frenemies. Seems that Aurora master of moderation, Congressman Mike Coffman, crossed the purple line this week when he laughed not just out loud, but very loud at the agreeably laughable HUD Secretary Ben Carson. Carson was in town to make nice over Aurora’s fancy new affordable housing complex, Westerly Creek. While Carson was expertly making clear nothing about a complex subject, members of the lying mainstream media asked about New York Times reports about the White and House and HUD considering a plan that would raise the rents of more than 700,000 poor Americans who are tenants of HUD properties. Carson sniffed at the question, and using that same clever style that got him nowhere in the GOP presidential race drolly advised that everyone consider anything in the NYT should do so with a “grain of salt.” Coffman laughed out loud as if Carson were doing stand-up. Pundits hovering nearby predict the laugh could be on Coffman, who was captured by many a media pal-ing it up with a man who is secretariat non-grata to just about everybody in these parts. It begged the question why, in a difficult election year, Coffman wouldn’t have begged Carson to step on Colorado Springs GOP Congressman Doug Lamborn’s campaign instead.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that any parent can tell you that nothing is more natural to a child than a TV remote or a smart phone. That fact is lost on the nosy nannies who want statewide voters to consider a law that would try and keep kids 12 and under from at least buying cell phones, if not using them. The proposed initiative has been dubbed, The Preservation of Natural Childhood thang. Alas, Quid notes the notion is about 100 years too late. The electrons are way out of the bag.
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