A brawl at the convention, theapeutic and theatrical. A repetition of the wrong direction this nation took as a result of the pathological and evil turn of the Left in the West, hell no. Shoot them or better, hang them publicly. It's a sanitary act!

I hope we're both wrong. I love the city and have many friends there. But they'd be well advised to batten down the hatches. I do think you also have to consider the small parks along the river and those on the other side of I-25. Sloan, Barnum, Martinez, Sanchez and the Dry Gulch…they're all in good (bad) position to get overrun and “tent-city'd,” and they're much closer to the action than Washington Park, if not as obviously accessible. The Sanchez/Dry Gulch/Martinez corridor in particular between 6th and Colfax is probably already making DPD shudder a bit. Too strung out to manage well, too much exposure to the adjacent neighborhoods. They might bottleneck that some by closing movement between the three parks at the point the two creeks join, but that'll just push people up towards Sloan and the Colfax corridor, or out into Fed Heights. Then there's Berkeley Lake and Rocky Mountain Lake parks…about the same rough distance from downtown and the convention facilities as Washington Park.

I am SO glad I don't have to manage that mess. Even in the best of situations, it's a very tough job for the city.

Keep reading TMV and commenting. Appreciate it.

dr.e