Count me among the unimaginative, the uninspired, the unenthused, the Halloween-hating.

This year, as most previous, I'd left my costume (or at least the conceptualization of it) until the day before. For a moment, I thought I could get away with wearing my threadbare hoodie under my stained, fraying, armpit-ripped...

October 7, 2009 Update: ABQ Mayor Marty Chavez lost the election to Richard Berry.

This is, hands down, the silliest 11th hour appeal I've ever read from a candidate -- Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez, who is in a tight race against challengers Richard Berry and Richard Romero. You may need...

New Mexico repealed the death penalty during the 2009 Legislative session, but since the lawmaking body is prohibited from enacting retroactive laws the two men currently on death row are still eligible for execution. Gov. Bill Richardson has said he would not commute the sentences of the remaining two individuals...

More than two weeks ago, I filed a public records request with Gov. Bill Richardson's office with the purpose of investigating the extent to which Richardson has been involved in negotiations with North Korea regarding journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. The video journalists are imprisoned in North Korea and...

As speculation intensifies that Pres. Barack Obama will dispatch New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to North Korea to negotiate the release of imprisoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the coordinator of...

Who knew I could ever be jealous of a dead man?

OK, that's not fair. John "Ash" Amador was the last man...

In which I have way too much fun calling up a guy mentioned briefly on Countdown...

Monday, March 10: I am in the kitchen nuking Indian dinner in a box when my attention catches on five words from whatever Keith Olbermann is reading on TV in the other room.

"...gibbble...guubbble!.....guhguuuuble!......

On Jan. 17, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that the Obama family has narrowed down the potential family dog breeds to the Labradoodle and the Portuguese Water Dog.

It should be noted, however, that there is an already solid...

Yes, in a press conference on the state budget this afternoon, Gov. Bill Richardson confirmed to a reporter (Okay, it was the New Mex's Steve Terrell) that the stubble does...

Today, Gov. Bill Richardson addressed reporters about *his* decision to back out the Commerce Secretaryship, amid an investigation into whether he was involved in illegal "pay to play" politics.

Like...

Democratic Party of New Mexico Chairman Brian Colon is on record telling SFR that he treats the party fairly...that is until I grilled him on the election cycle, the primary caucus comedy-of-errors, his political ambitions and whether he taunted his Republican counterpart with text messages after New Mexico's Congressional delegation...

Legendary comedic deep thinker and Santa Fe resident Jack Handey shares his thoughts on the possibility of his former Saturday Night Live coworker, Al Franken, winning Minnesota's Senate seat:

Al Franken is an old friend of mine. We worked for many years together on "Saturday Night Live." You know...

Did McCain get his enemies mixed up again? Or was it a subtle pivot?

What he told reporters in regards to James Rubin's column in the Washington Post about McCain's earlier position regarding Hamas (note: Iran is not mentioned in the op-ed):

I don't know how [Obama]...