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You knew Mason Tvert would get his licks in about the reports of drunks causing a ruckus on airplanes.

The front man for the push to legalize marijuana in Denver and beyond proposes pot-smoking lounges in airports because he believes it will make flying safer.

James. B. Meadow reports:

"There's been this growing trend of alcohol-related air rage," he said Tuesday, alluding to episodes of drunken passengers creating in-flight disturbances.

Just last week, Christina E. Szele, 35, a New York woman, was accused of drunkenly disrupting a JetBlue flight, punching a flight attendant and screaming curses and racial slurs after she was prevented from smoking. A cigarette, that is.

Ralph Nader told the Rocky's M.E. Sprengelmeyer that Barack Obama downplays poverty issues, tries to "talk white" and appeals to "white guilt."

Nader, a thorn in the Democratic Party's side since the 2000 presidential election, has taken various shots at Obama in recent days while ramping up his latest independent run for president.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Rocky Mountain News on Monday, he said he is running because he believes Democrats, like Republicans, are too closely aligned with corporate interests.

Left the house at 6 a.m., my normal commute time. It's barely 60 degrees. Don't appreciate your neighborhood in the early morning when you're in the car all the time. A teenager on a her bike was headed for swimming practice.

In the vast realm of cyclists I fall somewhere south of Lance Armstrong and north of a four-year-old with training wheels in the driveway. My commute is a pretty easy 20 miles: downhill to the Platte then flat to downtown. Still feel like a Tour de France rider when I scale the only hill in the neighborhood.

Cruising along Platte Canyon it's actually chilly. Guessing this isn't going to last. Cut through a neighborhood because Bowles between Federal and Lowell isn't very bike-friendly and I don't want to be the subject of this headline: Biking Journalist Flattened by SUV.

Can't anybody keep their clothes on outside anymore?

There was the naked jogging priest in Weld County, the naked bicycle protestors in Boulder and yet another naked jogger arrested.

And the latest in a string of naked lawn mowers, this time in Elkhart, Ind. I mean, there are so many safety issues there you just don't know where to start.

Wednesday is Bike to Work Day. Don't even think about it.

Most Americans who are religious say their religion isn't the only path to eternal life and are tolerant of other faiths, says a Pew survey.

Meanwhile, James Dobson of Focus on the Family has accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.

The findings, revealed today in a survey of 35,000 adults, can either be taken as a positive sign of growing religious tolerance, or disturbing evidence that Americans dismiss or don't know fundamental teachings of their own faiths.

Dobson, who has said he can't support Republican nominee John McCain, ripped Obama for what he called distorting the Bible.

Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which biblical passages should guide public policy - chapters like Leviticus, which Obama said suggests slavery is OK and eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, "a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application." "Folks haven't been reading their Bibles," Obama said. Dobson and Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings in the New Testament.

A group of activists skeptical of electronic voting machines as the primary instruments of democracy are having an impact on Colorado elections.

Al Kolwicz, executive director of Colorado Voter Group, will be online at 11 a.m. talking about his group's concerns.

E-mail questions/comments in advance and join the chat here at 11.

Myung Oak Kim reports:

Their work is part of why Colorado voters will see fewer electronic voting machines and more paper ballots during this fall's presidential election. They also are a big reason the legislature passed a measure creating a new election-reform commission to study how we conduct elections and suggest changes to state officials.