Uncensored
A tale of two sexes
It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. For women, that is...
The fight to label frankenfoods
Americans may be bitterly divided on a range of hot button issues, but there’s one on which the vast majority of Americans agree — labeling genetically engineered (GE) foods...
Foreskin follies
Last year, when I wrote a column supporting an end to routine circumcision of male newborns, I got a letter from a reader who blasted me for being hypocritical. How can you support freedom of choice for women, the reader asked, and not support freedom of choice for ...
School of hard knocks
The lessons our children learn often aren’t the ones we intend for them to receive. Such must be the case for student journalists at Overland High School...
Tyler Clementi died for your sins
Dharun Ravi got to college to find out his roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, was gay and quickly shared that fact with the Twitterverse. Clearly, he felt that Clementi’s sexuality was a significant enough issue to merit posting online. And he didn’t stop there...
Room to breathe
It’s time for Coloradans to take a hard look at hydraulic fracturing — fracking — and a critical view of those state lawmakers who are more interested in sucking up to the gas and oil lobby than protecting their constituents...
Saint Melinda
Melinda Gates is my new hero. In fact, I think she should be canonized as the Patron Saint of Voiceless and Vulnerable Women...
What’s old is new
If you haven’t watched the BBC series The Edwardian Farm, I highly recommend it. A series that ended this past January, the program features historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn, who attempt to show what daily life was like during...
The buzz about bees and pesticide
When we can’t grow our own organic vegetables — in the middle of winter, for example — we buy organic...
Birth belongs to women, not doctors
"Mom defies doctor, has baby her way,” the CNN headline read...
