August 28, 2011 12:17 AM UTC

There's a Scratch on Mike Coffman's Vinyl LP

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• by: Mike Collins

Most of you probably don’t remember deep gouges in vinyl musical records.  The scratch would cause an infinite and irritating repetition.  With the exception of rattling sabers towards the Chinese regarding rare earth, he rarely misses an opportunity to remind us of his Olympian heroism in a month long ground war.  That he came away with only a Combat Action Ribbon, well I am about to cross a line…….MC

Definition of short on substance.

Coffman:

“I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran……………………………………………………………….”

“Democrats today proposed dramatic changes to Colorado’s congressional boundaries, an effort they said is aimed at making districts more competitive.

In other words, Republican Mike Coffman will have a fight on his hands.

Coffman said he’d leave it up to the attorneys to argue the merits of their maps.

“Whatever happens, I’m a Marine Corps combat veteran and I look forward to running a tough race in whatever congressional district I’m in,” he said.”

http://blogs.denverpost.com/th…

Emotional Blackmail and an Empty Regard

By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ

Published: August 20, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08…

“”America needs heroes,” it is sometimes said, a phrase that’s often uttered in a wistful tone, almost cooingly, as if we were talking about a lonely child. But do we really “need heroes”? We need leaders, who marshal us to the muddle. We need role models, who show us how to deal with it. But what we really need are citizens, who refuse to infantilize themselves with talk of heroes and put their shoulders to the public wheel instead. The political scientist Jonathan Weiler sees the cult of the uniform as a kind of citizenship-by-proxy. Soldiers and cops and firefighters, he argues, embody a notion of public service to which the rest of us are now no more than spectators. What we really need, in other words, is a swift kick in the pants.”