Some random observations.

Air travel used to be a thing to look forward to, back when airlines advertised their wine lists and French menus. Today, flying from New York to Denver, or any domestic destination, means hours of squalid, starving confinement.

A Ben Smith sighting: Phil reports that he spotted Ben yesterday in the company of a man described as fat, ugly, bald and of generally rat-like appearance and demeanor. From this persons shifty stares at Phil, we deduce who the person in question might have been.

The unsubstantiated rumor that alcohol consumption affects flatlanders more profoundly at this altitude, spread as it is by mountain people seeking to confuse and frighten us, can now be treated as confirmed by experiment.

There was apparently a meth bust yesterday at a hotel, in the course of which the police also discovered a sniper rifle and some people with some really bad attitudes on Barack Obama. That hotel was the Denver residence of the entire Daily Kos front page, leading our friends from that blog to flee the hotel and get new quarters elsewhere.

Stay tuned for more random bits of fabulousness.