Colorado Springs.

I spent a week there, one day. When I drove x-country from Santa Fe to Boston. The place creeped me the hell out when I drove in, even though I had not yet started drinking Jim Kunstler's kool-aid (kunstler.com, for the uninitiated.)


Here's an article from Exiled about the latest goings on there, and it's as dysfunctional as I thought it would soon me (warning: the language is about what you'd expect from The Exile). The city government is shutting down, they're trying to suppress the formation of hoovervilles in the town but have no idea how, and Colorado Springs appears to be the origin of the attempt to refer to hoovervilles as obamavilles.

Enough to make you wonder how long before there's nothing but tumbleweeds in that town.