Mornin. Morning: a noun, an exclamation, an adverb, an introduction, this introduction. Okay yikes enough with the grammar noodling. It’s Wednesday, the 223rd day of the year (August 10th for you Gregorian types), and this is your quality selection of news and things from the past twenty-four hours.
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The Big Stuff
“Hillary wants to abolish — essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know,”
, with his latest controversial statement
What did Trump actually say? That’s easy, it’s right there in the blockquote. But what did he mean? : “It was not clear whether Trump was inciting gun owners to use their weapons against judges or a sitting president, or was encouraging some other action.” Okay.
But let’s also ask our readers: asks the question: Do you think Donald Trump’s comments Tuesday on the Supreme Court and Second Amendment supporters should be a considered a reference to violent action? .
Colorado…in…spaaaaaaaace The University of Colorado’s Engineering Center in Boulder is livestream conferencing withe astronauts on the to advance the science of space travel. UC Boulder’s been involved in space projects for almost thirty years now, and .
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By The Numbers
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The town of Vail turns 50 years old this year. ????????????.
Quick Hits
+ Daredevil Terry Chesebro, who was dubbed “Evil Cheesey” by Evel Knievel after breaking into Mr. Knievel’s home, .
+ for his sixth drunken driving conviction — a felony — last month despite pleas from prosecutors that he be incarcerated.
+ Investigators say the triple drowning Monday afternoon of two young sisters and their teen babysitter at a Pueblo mobile home complex’s swimming pool .
+ A 24-year-old Denver man was sentenced Monday to a 15-year-old girl — the first case to go to trial under .
+ Our Brief Olympics Note: , and .
+ A federal lawsuit filed by shareholders of Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill to prevent and then stop food-borne illnesses that sickened customers across the country and proved costly to the company.
+ Did you know we publish a jazz calendar? We do! .
+ for collecting her mother-in-law (who died in 1981)’s Social Security payments (of $224,339, which she has to pay back).
+ A Denver sprout company has been linked by federal food-safety investigators to an outbreak of salmonella .
+ to a 27-year-old University of Denver grad.
+ Giving hope to new media executives across the land, .
+ , and says the city is working on plans boost (private) condo development near transit stations.
+ Between 2002 and 2015, the Islamic State was directly or indirectly responsible for .
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+ Texas reported its first Zika-related death Tuesday after .
+ Because of a proliferation of small-scale grow operations popping up across Douglas County, county commissioners .
+ : [emoji of a mountain] Day. That’s Mountain Day. I’m jealous. I want to make up a holiday too.
+ Dolphin 1, .
What We’re Reading
+ Everything is connected to the Internet these days. Thermostats, refrigerators, and even … um … “marital aids.” But like all things connected to the Internet, your privacy as a user is in peril. One of the most popular internet-connected dildos on the market .
+ Thousands of patients misdiagnosed as vegetative .
+ (spoiler: the sex is better on weed).
+ One take on .
+ Did you know: In the early 1900s, the Olympics featured competitions in ? True story.
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Song of the Day
Today’s song is , because we haven’t had any Leonard Cohen yet, and this song is in the news after , who passed away last month.
“Well Marianne, itap come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine…”
Part of
Head over to our , or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, .
Hat Tips and Corrections
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