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Editorial pages are keen to point out when something has gone awry or when public figures have lost their way. Today, let us offer a note of thanks on a day when all thanks are due – for things large and small.
- Our stubborn democracy. It may not seem like much when voters wait in line for hours and it takes two weeks to count their ballots, but ours is a system that responds to the public mood and interest.
- Two between-meal NFL games today to distract us from all of the nibbling and gobbling and, for dessert, our Broncos against Kansas City.
- Being able to watch those football games without seeing one Marilyn Musgrave or Angie Paccione ad.
- News Corp., for giving in to good taste and pulling the plug on the O.J. Simpson interview – the tell-all session that, we guarantee you, did not tell all.
- Our freedoms, including the freedom of speech that gives any of us the right to complain – about the government, about the tradition of serving turkey instead of flank steak or fettucini with steamed vegetables.
- Forward-thinking Coloradans who work to protect our open spaces and gorgeous mountainscapes and vistas. Not all of paradise has been paved for a parking lot.
- K-Fed and Britney for proving, again, that some marriages don’t deserve constitutional protections.
- Coloradans who in 1999 approved the much-needed southeast light-rail line that opened this month, a step away from gasoline guzzling on a planet that needs many such steps and soon.
- Those who donate to shelters and soup kitchens so less fortunate Coloradans can enjoy a holiday meal today, and for the charitable agencies and ministries that cooked, served and delivered those dinners.
- For the brave men and women who voluntarily serve in our armed forces, many of whom are in harm’s way, far from family and friends.
We’re thinking of you, and you have our most profound thanks.
