You ain’t see nothing yet … I give you Naropa University:
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YOU ARE READY

https://www.naropa.edu/
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Here’s wiki:
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Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named after the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university describes itself as Buddhist-inspired, ecumenical, and nonsectarian rather than Buddhist. Naropa promotes non-traditional activities like meditation to supplement traditional learning approaches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naropa_University
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It’s a real thing and still is. I had a friend who went there to study poetry with Allen Ginsberg and Ann Waldman.

Chogyam Trungpa, from a genuine Tibetan Buddhist lineage, founded Naropa and is also known as proponent of “Crazy Wisdom.” IOW he became a wild, self-indulgent Buddhist cult leader. He died at the age of 48 from diabetes, high blood pressure and heavy drinking.

The early J. P. Sears podcasts skewered the lotus-eaters soundly, while appearing to be one of them, which is what first brought him to our attention.
Even my SiL who lives in Boulder (and is far to our Left) found this one hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnPsjCQXywM

https://www.westword.com/news/jp-sears-video-salutes-boulder-colorado-9794779

JP recently moved to Texas, because of the declining climate for conservatives in Colorado, and I don’t think his political persona is nearly as funny as his gentle shivving of the New Agers in his early videos.
However, he is still often worth watching.

https://awakenwithjp.com/

I haven’t lived in CO since 1976; my brother is still there in Morrison. Yep, I watched Denver turn into LA, and the mountains ruined from what they were when I grew up.

And you’re smart to limit yourself to the western slope…the old Colorado still hangs on there.

I’m accommodating to all the Colorado universities. MS grad of CSU, 1974. And yes the contrast between the two was/is stark. I was accepted for undergrad by CU, CSU, and Mines. At the time, CU had a top 10 physics dept, so that’s where I went. Also, being a naive 18 yr old, I didn’t understand that “top 10” meant grad school and research. I did get a good undergrad physics education, but a bit impersonal as compared to what I could have obtained at the much smaller CSU department. I went to CSU for grad school as it had a Radiation biology dept and I was thinking medical physics. I took courses in both physics and rad bio. After 2 years I decided that wasn’t the path for me and ended up way south and east at UGA for the doctorate.

BTW, one huge benefit of CSU at the time was Cristman field and the Ram Flying Club. Where else could someone on a grad stipend get their PPL in 2 years??!

Olympic organizers were forced to order 4,000 pounds of meat and eggs quickly after athletes decried the fake meat and non-dairy options…

From the beginning, officials sought to make this year’s Games the most eco-friendly and green in Olympic history. However, lost somewhere in the social designers’ “grand design” was the fact that, while fake meat is fine in the faculty cafeterias of Harvard and Oxford, elite human machines do not run on fake meat.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13691589/Hamas-leader-Ismail-Haniyeh-targeted-killed-Iran.html

DNC official gives devastating assessment of ‘weirdly unpopular’ Kamala Harris in bombshell secret recording and reveals fundraising tactic that will leave donors furious

A member of Kamala Harris’s team who is also a prominent member of the Democratic National Committee was filmed conceding that she will not ‘win this year.’

Kamala Harris Campaign Compliance Manager Joyce DeCerce – who is a Compliance Manager for the DNC – could be seen lamenting how Harris is ‘weirdly unpopular’, while seemingly admitting to making empty promises to donors.

In the footage, DeCerce agrees that the campaign fundraising strategy is to ‘take their money and tell them what they want to hear.’