Frequently, the Daily Camera receives criticism for reporting on all of the weirdos, charalatans, spandex-clad pro cycling posers, and other offbeat characters here. I disagree with these critics; when the day comes that folks like these aren’t news we’ll really be in trouble.
There’s even a website –
http://www.keepboulderweird.org/
The latest yahoos to score headlines are the fake nudist couple in north Boulder. I call ‘em fake because Real Nudists aren’t exhibitionists nor would they deliberately disrespect their neighbors and benefactors (the fake nudists live in subsidized housing, for which many applicants including families with small kids have to be on a waiting list for months and years).
The fake nudists here also claim, or at least the husband does in comments following one story on the DC website, to be “Reverend and Reverend” in something called the Gnostic faith –
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnosticism
Many naive people, of the pseudo-intellectual variety, think that some great constitutional issue is involved in this case of fake nudists grossing out their neighborhood, which also has a nearby school. Hogwash! If this couple wants to protest laws against nudity in public and gender inequality in re toplessness, they should take their protest to Pearl Street Mall and do so totally nude. What they really are about, it seems to me, is being the center of attention and expressing their hostility to society in a childish way.
The problem, however, will be corrected as soon as Boulder Housing Partners passes new rules for appropriate behavior by their clients. We can expect eviction of the fake nudists to be the result, and I’d bet they’ve already been evicted several times in the past for a variety of reasons.
Then, perhaps, a family who has been waiting for a very long time will have the opportunity to move into this home and contribute something positive to the neighborhood, too.
Real Boulderites, we ought to keep in mind, are rarely featured in the news. That’s because we still take sanity for granted, even here in Boulder, CO.
BTW, I’m the sane one. It’s Doc Brinkley whose bubble is a little off . . .
Hey, Max!
I've been following this story and agree with your opinion.
P.S. The difference between Max Weller and Doc Brinkley is … ?
Old Doc is simply my alter ego — and a way to make some people scratch their heads and wonder if Max is really nuts.
Speaking of "real Boulderites", Max, I am a "real Boulderite". I was born in Boulder, went to the schools in Boulder, had jobs in Boulder, paid taxes in Boulder, et cetera.
You as I understand it are not "from around these parts". So, how about you either stop being a hypocrite and pissing and moaning about all the "Denver bums" using "Boulder services" or go back to Missouri and live off the dole there?
By the way, as I have mentioned before – I along with some other "Boulder bums" am living at Samaritan House in Denver (as we try to put our lives back together and become gainfully employed, tax paying citizens again.
Also, you sound jealous of everyone (at the shelter) and everything (foxes and mountain lions) getting some while you are not.
Well, everyone has to have someplace to call "home". In my case, we lost the family farm in Kansas due to the catastrophic illness of my uncle — then we lost our life savings and eventually the family home in Missouri due to the catastrophic illness of my mother, which also led to my episode of craziness and my felonious behavior. So, I literally had no home upon my release from Missouri DOC and no immediate family still living, either.
I chose to come to Colorado, in part because my brother is buried at Ft. Logan National Cemetery (Capt. U.S. Army) but mostly because I'd always wanted to live in or near the Rockies. BTW, I currently receive zero benefits from any government program paid for by taxpayers (of whom I was one for almost thirty years) and I don't plan to apply for any. There are those who begrudge me leftovers from the fridge at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, which would be tossed out otherwise, but it's only because they dislike what I have to say.
You know as well as I do that there is a sizable group of Denver's homeless who come to Boulder — which is now my home — only to party, panhandle, and in general trash our fair city. In so doing, they take away scarce resources from those Boulderites who are in need, including families with kids. I say they should go to the end of the line for available shelter/services, and they should also behave like decent citizens or be run out of town.
Sometimes you sound reasonable, other times not. I hope you get your life in order. Samaritan House is a great resource, precisely because they refuse to tolerate the rotten behavior of sociopathic Denver bums.
If I'm not mistaken, the couple aren't doing anything illegal in Boulder. If they're not breaking the law, leave the people alone. If you don't like the law, work to change it. Boulder's recent attempt to outlaw toplessness was shot down in flames, so good luck there. Also, under the First Amendment's protection of Freedom of Religion, if they claim to be Reverends, they are. They're under no obligation to defend their faith, and need ask no one's permission to practice it. AND, I agree with the remarks regarding people from Missouri practicing Boulder Chauvinism. I've been here since 1970. If you want non-Boulderites to go back where they came from, lead by example.
Their problem will be with new rules passed by Boulder Housing Partners. All they had to do is put up a privacy fence, but they want to impose their set of beliefs in nudity (if that's really what it is) on their neighborhood. Not very neighborly of them at all!
You know, when I lived in my small hometown in Missouri I always welcomed new residents to it. Fresh faces bring fresh ideas, something every community needs.