Jeff is a young whipper-snapper born in the Orwellian year of 1984 in Kansas City. As Reagan double-speak gave way to Bush and Clinton double-speak, Jeff grew up in a comfortable, secure, laid-back, and vaguely liberal fashion. Not too much politically to report, except for a brief and lazy stint as founder/president of his high school’s Amnesty International club, and reading some Howard Zinn for 11th grade American History. In 2001, a new era of double-speak and secrecy emerged just as Jeff’s forehead and eyes began to recede behind his unruly mop of hair. As the Patriot Act was passed without a single Congressperson actually reading it, Jeff was in college thinking, “This is creepy.” As Cowboy Jr. invaded Afghanistan, he felt uneasy, and when Cowboy Jr. bombed Baghdad he said to himself in disgust, “Yikes.” As Cowboy Jr.’s “Mission Accomplished” banner and bulging pilot costume further poked at his consciousness, Jeff found himself getting involved with a college environmental group. This period was accented by hearing a speech by a founder of Global Exchange who finally gave his conscience the smack it needed, thereby starting the tailspin into full blown lefty loony-ville. By lefty loony-ville, liberalism in a smug Democratic Party East (or West) Coast manner is not intentionally implied, rather, the type of Leftism that says we shouldn’t bomb people or steer millions into abject poverty for the benefit of the privileged few. Bush double-speak has now given way to Obama double-speak– with, by the way, the head-over-heels support of Jeff– as misty-eyed hope has given way to disgust.
Jeff moved to Denver in 2009, has chopped off the unruly mop, and sired a son in 2011.
