Denver cops have erected a concentration camp in a warehouse at the edge of town - essentially a series of chain-linked fence cages topped with barbed-wire - to contain the thousands of battered protesters the city plans on bashing, cuffing and stuffing away at the Clintonista Festival of Hate, Fear and Cackling Narcissism that is being held contemporaneously with the Democratic National Convention this month.

‘Gitmo on the Platte’ Set As Holding Cell for DNC [CBS4 Denver]

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Helping organize a large summer street festival is not exactly the most funnest job in the world. You are surrounded by tons of hot shirtless guys enjoying a drink or twelve, and yet your loser ass is running around with a walkie talkie in one hand and a cell phone in the other because someone misplaced a small child (um, HELLO, they’re called leashes) or because some drunk lesbian is lying face down in the street passed out in a pile or her own vomit and may be dead (she wasn’t). At the end of a successful event sometimes you get a raise, which is nice. But sometimes, oh sweet fucking jesus sometimes, you get an unexpected gift. And no I am not referring to the chance encounter with Chicago Bureau (my first meeting with a Cynic!), but something even more cynically delicious. An actual email that came to my work account on Monday, after the jump.

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