First, come downtown today to celebrate a belated Cinco de Mayo. The Latin Anglo Alliance Foundation is sponsoring the celebration and scholarship fundraiser on Colorado Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets. There will be a beer garden, a jalapeno eating contest, scholarships awarded (at noon) and music all day long. The event culminates in a street dance from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. I’ve volunteered to work two different booths there, come down and say “hello.”

Second, The Daily Sentinel was chock full of goodies yesterday. There was the story about Texas leading the way in gas drilling disclosure. No need to let facts get in the way with a good headline, but Wyoming already lead the way, with full disclosure about fracking fluids already the law.  Colorado’s “Ritter’s Rules” seem quaint. All the hullaballoo about how disclosure of fracking fluids would make oil and gas go away in Colorado seems silly now.  Wyoming has tougher laws, Texas is developing tougher laws, New York, Pennsylvania, and even Paris are developing tougher laws.  Just another example of how Regulatory Capture has been industry’s forte in Colorado , and how our local elected officials have lost touch with reality.

And then there were Penry and Wagner quoting the same Fox News interview with Obama’s Security Advisor Donilon. For the life of me I can’t figure out why the Sentinel has to pay two columnists to say exactly the same thing. If you missed the editorials, they were both trying to give credit to Bush’s policies about waterboarding—something Bush, himself, gave up for the last two years of his presidency. Kind of amusing that the two twin columns came out the same day that Senator John McCain came out with a powerful speech on the subject. Kudos to McCain, he was tortured, so it is hard to ignore him when he speaks the truth on the subject.

Speaking strictly as a business consultant, Jay Seaton, I think I know how to save you some money.

Homework

Senator McCain's Remarks About Torture