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7 Creative Murders in Fiction
In this gritty post-apocalyptic mystery, a former cop must solve the murder of his partner and a scientist's disappearance and do what no one has done in over two years... go outside. Keep reading for an essay from Matt Harry, author of Ash Land As a storyteller, creating a mystery is nightmare fuel. How do you come up with an original premise? How do you plant clues and red herrings without giving away the ending? How do you devise a culprit that makes sense but feels shocking?
Matt Harry's 8 Favorite Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic Novels
Ever since I was a little kid, I loved stories about the end of the world. Article continues after advertisement I think the first one that really impacted me was Omega Man, which was the movie version of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend. I caught the 1971 film on some daytime television matinee, and I missed the first five minutes, so I didn’t fully understand why Charlton Heston was wandering around an empty New York City.
House Dems To Censure "Raunchy" Ryan Armagost On His Way Out The Door
August 21, 2025 12:47 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols As Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland reports, GOP Rep. Ryan Armagost, who is in the process of resigning from the Colorado House to pursue personal and vocational opportunities in Arizona, will not escape punishment for behavior targeting a female colleague that may have contributed to Armagost’s decision to leave his career in politics behind: Colorado House Democrats will attempt to censure Republican Rep.
Weekend Open Thread
BY: kwtree IN: Friday Open Thread BY: Duke Cox IN: Friday Open Thread BY: coloradosane IN: Jeff Hurd Keeps Pretending He Didn’t Kill Rural Hospitals BY: joe_burly IN: Sorry Gabe, You’re Just Another Evans BY: Republican 36 IN: There Are No More “Sane Republicans,” Rob Witwer Edition BY: 2Jung2Die IN: Sorry Gabe, You’re Just Another Evans BY: Ben Folds5 IN: There Are No More “Sane Republicans,” Rob Witwer Edition BY: Matt A.
Media Ain't Buying What Republicans are Selling on Special Legislative Session
August 15, 2025 01:08 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Lawmakers will reconvene next Thursday for a special legislative session in order to figure out how to make another $800 million dollars in cuts to the state budget necessitated by President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit bill” enacted by Congress in early July.
DougCo Republican Activist Plots To Primary All "RiNOS"
July 31, 2025 11:47 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols After narrowly losing the recent election for Colorado Republican Party vice-chair to former Rep.
Weekend Open Thread
July 19, 2025 08:04 AM UTC Weekend Open Thread 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” –Jack London
GOP Operative "Shakedown" Of Counties Gets Substantially Worse
July 18, 2025 01:56 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports, the story that broke this week in the Washington Post about Republican political consultant Jeff Small’s rebuffed approaches to Republican county clerks to permit outside access to voting equipment, a la convicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, is taking a turn towards something closer to extortion and influence peddling on an unrelated issue–the Trump administration’s abortive...
Thursday Open Thread
BY: Marla Robbinson IN: MAGA Meltdown As Trump Declares Epstein Files A “Hoax” BY: davebarnes IN: Fundraising Numbers for Statewide Races BY: JohnInDenver IN: Thanks, Congressional Republicans: Health Insurance Premiums to Increase 28% in 2026 BY: Ben Folds5 IN: Why Is 76 Group Harassing Republican County Clerks? BY: Chickenheed IN: Why Is 76 Group Harassing Republican County Clerks? BY: 2Jung2Die IN: Why Is 76 Group Harassing Republican County Clerks?
Thursday Open Thread
BY: ParkHill IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: Kim Turnage IN: GOP DougCo Commishes Make Epic Fools Of Selves As Home Rule Question Craters BY: davebarnes IN: Diana DeGette Smacks Evasive RFK Jr. in House Committee Hearing BY: JohnInDenver IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: ParkHill IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: ParkHill IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: ParkHill IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: DavidThi808 IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: DavidThi808 IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Mitch McConnell (Briefly) Becomes The Most Honest Republican
June 25, 2025 03:41 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Newsweek reports on the latest defining slip-up from former Senate Majority Leader and incompletely reanimated cadaver Mitch McConnell, who gave his most honest if heartless assessment about public opinion on the Republican budget proposal that will deprive millions of Americans of their Medicaid health coverage including one in three residents of McConnell’s native Kentucky: Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said during a closed-door...
Tina Peters Back In Court Today (Sort Of) With Trump's DOJ In Tow
April 22, 2025 01:09 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols AP’s Colleen Slevin via the Aurora Sentinel updates on the continuing efforts by former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to get out of prison while she appeals her multiple felony and other misconduct-related convictions, stemming from her failed plot to hack into voting machines and uncover evidence that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Donald Trump.
Republicans Mad that Democrats Don't Think Children are Property
April 22, 2025 12:34 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols State Representative Ken “Dildo” DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs) on Monday took time out from his regular routine of complaining about every piece of legislation proposed by a Democrat in order to promote an asinine bill that essentially sought to classify children as property in Colorado. HCR25-1003 was killed on Monday in the House Committee on State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs.
Who Will Win Colorado's Two Tightest Congressional Races?
September 30, 2024 03:31 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols It’s that time in the election cycle when we ask readers of Colorado Pols about what’s going to happen when the votes are tallied. Pols’ readers have been oddly accurate in predicting outcomes over the years, so while these polls are completely unscientific, we think the results still carry some real weight. As always, we want to know WHAT YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN, not who you support or whom you might prefer on a given question.
Friday Open Thread
BY: 2Jung2Die IN: Friday Open Thread BY: DavidThi808 IN: Trump To Bring Hateful Debunked Double-Down To Aurora BY: JohnInDenver IN: Trump To Bring Hateful Debunked Double-Down To Aurora BY: Ben Folds5 IN: Thursday Open Thread BY: spaceman2021 IN: Local GOP Fundraiser Packs Both Heat And Meat BY: bullshit! IN: Republicans Misunderstand Leverage in Stupidest Shutdown Threat BY: bullshit! IN: Thursday Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Colorado GOP's Schoening Trucks On As If Nothing Has Happened
August 27, 2024 11:09 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Colorado Republican Party “Director of Special Initiatives” Darcy Schoening took a brief break from her usual unsolicited blast emails in hate-filled “support” of Republican legislative candidates to promote an event coming up tomorrow, the next regularly-scheduled “Capitol Club Luncheon” headlined by…Colorado Republican Party chairman Dave “Buh Bye Brandon” Williams, who according to the flyer below sent out this morning is still the...
Tuesday Open Thread
BY: 2Jung2Die IN: Dave Williams Vows To Fight On Until At Least This Weekend BY: davebarnes IN: Bluff Called: Colorado Concern and Advance Colorado Fold on Property Tax Threats BY: Matt A.
Weekend Open Thread
BY: Duke Cox IN: Tina Peters Not Going Quietly Into That Good Night BY: notaskinnycook IN: Thursday Open Thread BY: bullshit! IN: Republican FINALLY Condemns Colorado GOP Hate Mail Sent On His Behalf BY: Chickenheed IN: Republican FINALLY Condemns Colorado GOP Hate Mail Sent On His Behalf BY: spaceman2021 IN: Two Republicans Launch Silly “2nd Amendment Caucus” for Reasons They Can’t Articulate BY: notaskinnycook IN: Republican FINALLY Condemns Colorado GOP Hate Mail Sent On His Behalf BY:...
Don't Let the Internet Eat Your Brain, Kids (feat. Charles Ashby)
August 16, 2024 03:04 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…Ian went on a little summer break and…the entire world changed completely! We’ll talk more about the vibe shift, the VP’s VP, the Trump campaign, and so much more.
Larry Mizel, Phalanx Of Billionaires To Rub Elbows With Trump In Aspen
August 07, 2024 02:42 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Here’s an invite to a fundraiser in Aspen this Saturday so exclusive that as soon as it was discovered on the website of the Orange County, California GOP, it was swiftly removed from view. And don’t worry about actually attending, the event is reportedly already sold out: Generally speaking, when the minimum asking for dinner seating at a fundraiser is $25,000, it’s not necessary to advertise it with a flyer.
Overstock.com Guy Makes Gruesome Threats Against Tina Peters' Prosecutor
July 30, 2024 10:24 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols As the Washington Post reported Friday evening and 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark took note of last night (video above), an ally of indicted ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, whose trial in Mesa County on multiple felony charges stemming from the unauthorized access to voting equipment she allegedly allowed in a failed attempt to obtain evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump begins this week, overtly threatened...
Colorado Week in Review for July 21, 2024
BY: Matt A.
Monday Open Thread
BY: Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: MichaelBowman IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: Conserv. Head Banger IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: JohnInDenver IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: kwtree IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: JohnInDenver IN: “Let’s Roll!” Colorado GOP Promotes Ron Hanks’ MAGA Truck Rally BY: JohnInDenver IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Colorado Week in Review for June 2, 2024
BY: Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: kwtree IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: JohnInDenver IN: “Let’s Roll!” Colorado GOP Promotes Ron Hanks’ MAGA Truck Rally BY: JohnInDenver IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: Matt A. Harry IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: kwtree IN: “Let’s Roll!” Colorado GOP Promotes Ron Hanks’ MAGA Truck Rally BY: kwtree IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: Conserv. Head Banger IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: ParkHill IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: ParkHill IN: Weekend Open Thread
Republicans Lose Candidate in Targeted State House Race
May 31, 2024 12:03 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Readers of Colorado Pols know that Colorado Republicans have no chance at taking back control of the State House of Representatives in 2024 (or, really, in 2026 or 2028).
Friday Updates: Donald Trump is a Convicted Felon
May 31, 2024 10:42 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols [NOTE: We’ll update this space to continue discussing Thursday’s historic verdict in New York that made Donald Trump the first former President in American history to become a convicted felon.] The verdict is in, and the whining has begun. —– As reports, Trump is getting an outpouring of support from [checks notes] Russia?
Primary Election TV Ad Spending is Pretty Weak Thus Far
May 24, 2024 11:18 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Political campaigns have always been a fascinating mix of art and science when it comes to figuring out how to both influence and catch the attention of potential voters. Honing a message and finding the right talking points can be a difficult process, though there are some decisions that should be easy (like not placing your candidate in the same frame as a literal horse’s ass).
Cause for Concern? Colorado's Top Business Group Goes Dark Following Property Tax Deal
May 24, 2024 10:26 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Erik Maulbetsch In the 48 hours following the close of Colorado’s legislative session, the state’s most prominent business group, Colorado Concern, had a board member resign publicly while citing policy disagreements, and scrubbed the names of member companies and its remaining board members from its website. Now, nobody is willing to talk about what happened. One topic dominated the debates under the dome this year: property tax reform.
Weekend Open Thread
BY: MichaelBowman IN: Friday Open Thread BY: Lloyd42 IN: Friday Open Thread BY: MichaelBowman IN: Friday Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Zombie Ramey Johnson to Run for State House
April 08, 2024 11:53 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols If you miss seeing today’s much-ballyhooed partial solar eclipse, you won’t get another good look at the moon blotting out the sun for another 20 years. Colorado will be in the middle of another election season in August 2044…and Republican Ramey Johnson will probably still be a candidate for some sort of elected office.
Joe Neguse is Now the Fourth-Highest Ranking Democrat in Congress
March 20, 2024 11:20 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Boulderish) has officially ascended to the #4 position in Democratic leadership in Congress. From a press release: Today, Congressman Joe Neguse was elected to serve as the Assistant Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives. The 39-year-old Colorado lawmaker was elected to succeed Rep.
How Desperate Are GOP "Suits" To Stop Dave Williams, You Ask?
March 20, 2024 10:32 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols In a remarkably short period of time, former state Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams has transformed from a sideshow occupying the House seat formerly held by the equally embarrassing ex-Rep.
John Hickenlooper Gets Even More Smarter
March 20, 2024 10:24 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols Today on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we have a special interview-only episode with the man who was the first guest on the original show way back in May 2016.
Wednesday Open Thread
BY: joe_burly IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: Matt A. Harry IN: Sad RMGO Rally Demonstrates How Much Colorado Has Shifted on Gun Safety BY: harrydoby IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: kwtree IN: Sad RMGO Rally Demonstrates How Much Colorado Has Shifted on Gun Safety BY: kwtree IN: Who Stands Up For “Underrepresented” Men? Scott Bottoms, Baby! BY: Thorntonite IN: Who Stands Up For “Underrepresented” Men? Scott Bottoms, Baby! BY: Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS IN: Who Stands Up For “Underrepresented” Men?
2024 State of the Union Open Thread
BY: skeptical citizen IN: Boebert’s Big (Last?) Chance To Disrupt The State of the Union BY: Gilpin Guy IN: Republicans Recycle World’s Dumbest Political Argument BY: Gilpin Guy IN: Boebert’s Big (Last?) Chance To Disrupt The State of the Union BY: MichaelBowman IN: Boebert’s Big (Last?) Chance To Disrupt The State of the Union BY: harrydoby IN: Thursday Open Thread BY: NOV GOP meltdown IN: Boebert’s Big (Last?) Chance To Disrupt The State of the Union BY: Matt A.
Wednesday Open Thread
BY: Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: Duke Cox IN: Will No One Intervene In Dave Williams’ Pillaging of the Colorado GOP? BY: Lloyd42 IN: Will No One Intervene In Dave Williams’ Pillaging of the Colorado GOP? BY: Matt A. Harry IN: Will No One Intervene In Dave Williams’ Pillaging of the Colorado GOP? BY: notaskinnycook IN: Will No One Intervene In Dave Williams’ Pillaging of the Colorado GOP?
Coloradans REALLY Dislike Lauren Boebert (feat. Andrew Baumann)
February 12, 2024 01:37 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans have managed to break both chambers of Congress as they refuse to not only accomplish their most basic constitutional obligations, but fail to accomplish even their real bad political objectives.
Extreme Gun Rights Group Demands Legislature Stop Legislating
February 12, 2024 12:29 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols The extreme, no-comprise gun rights group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO) has been gradually losing influence in Colorado in recent years. That emasculation has never been more evident than it was today. In a laugh-out-loud ridiculous letter dated Feb.
Presidential Primary Ballots are In the Mail
February 12, 2024 09:54 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols There may not be a wealth of choices on your ballot, but you’ll still get to cast a vote for the March 5 Presidential Primary in Colorado. Election officials began mailing ballots for the March 5 Primary this week. For more information on voter registration and ballot issues, go to GoVoteColorado.com.
Monday Open Thread
February 12, 2024 08:15 AM UTC Monday Open Thread 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols “Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.” –Orson Welles
Doctoring His Resumé? Congressional Candidate Who Surrendered His Medical License Still Calls Himself a Physician
February 09, 2024 06:57 AM UTC 0 Comments by: James O'Rourke (Failed upward by Colorado Pols) Janak Joshi, a former GOP legislator, announced his candidacy for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District late last month. He told Colorado Politics he hopes to stand out as a “conservative leader” — and he seems to have already won over some prominent far-right activists.
Friday Jams Fest
BY: Meiner49er IN: Colorado’s Big Day At SCOTUS BY: sagebrush IN: Tina Peters’ Legal Defense Officially Crumbling BY: notaskinnycook IN: Thursday Open Thread BY: coloradosane IN: Colorado’s Big Day At SCOTUS BY: Matt A. Harry IN: Thursday Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Thursday Open Thread
BY: kwtree IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: westslope IN: Boebert’s Got Mike Johnson By The Short Hairs BY: Duke Cox IN: Joe O’Dea in CO-08…Or Maybe O’Not BY: MartinMark IN: Joe O’Dea in CO-08…Or Maybe O’Not BY: spaceman2021 IN: Mayorkas Impeachment Fails Despite Shady Maneuvering from Speaker Johnson BY: harrydoby IN: Tina Peters Fires Lawyers To Stall Trial Once Again BY: harrydoby IN: Wednesday Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Joe O'Dea in CO-08...Or Maybe O'Not
February 07, 2024 01:58 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols It has been rumored for more than a year that Greenwood Village Republican Joe O’Dea could be the GOP’s best hope at defeating incumbent Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo in CO-08, despite the fact that the failed 2022 U.S. Senate candidate doesn’t live anywhere near the district and has no logical connection to its voters.
Wednesday Open Thread
BY: notaskinnycook IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: notaskinnycook IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: notaskinnycook IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: JohnInDenver IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: JohnInDenver IN: Boebert’s Got Mike Johnson By The Short Hairs BY: Louis Friedman IN: Tina Peters Fires Lawyers To Stall Trial Once Again BY: davebarnes IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: davebarnes IN: Tina Peters Fires Lawyers To Stall Trial Once Again BY: davebarnes IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Colorado Republican Party Goes All In For Tina Peters
February 05, 2024 11:25 AM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols With the long-awaited trial of ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on a range of felony and other charges stemming from a failed attempt to provide evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump set to begin later this week, Peters’ supporters have been ramping up with a call for police officers in uniform to descend on the courtroom in Grand Junction to intimidate jurors “show support,” along with a daily...
Monday Open Thread
February 05, 2024 12:14 AM UTC Monday Open Thread 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols “I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.” –Abraham Lincoln
QAnon Promoter's Pro-Trump Supreme Court Brief Signed by Several Colorado GOP Leaders
January 31, 2024 01:57 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Erik Maulbetsch (Where they go one, oh forget it — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Several well-known Colorado conservatives including the chair of the Jefferson County Republicans signed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief submitted by a QAnon-promoting conspiracy theorist.
The Madness of Waging "Holy War" on Taylor Swift
January 31, 2024 01:34 PM UTC 0 Comments by: Colorado Pols CNBC reports today on the white-hot burning rage of the MAGA movement focusing in on their latest target, pop star Taylor Swift and her beau Kansas City Chiefs (on behalf of Colorado, boo) tight end Travis Kelce, whose budding romance combined with the Chiefs’ upcoming Super Bowl appearance and Swift’s on-record dislike for Donald Trump has been blended up into a frothy brew of crazypants conspiracy theorizing by the MAGA movement:...
Colorado Week in Review for January 28, 2024
BY: JohnInDenver IN: Debate Diary: Nine Republicans Face Off in CO-04 BY: JohnInDenver IN: ‘You Have to be Willing to be Arrested’ — The Gideon 300 Training for Civil Disobedience BY: kwtree IN: ‘You Have to be Willing to be Arrested’ — The Gideon 300 Training for Civil Disobedience BY: Sunmusing IN: Weekend Open Thread BY: Sunmusing IN: Debate Diary: Nine Republicans Face Off in CO-04 BY: Pam Bennett IN: Debate Diary: Nine Republicans Face Off in CO-04 BY: Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS...
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