Uncensored
Passing the tipping point
Let’s take a moment from sweating in this record-breaking heat and the catastrophic fires to think about something even less pleasant — the end of the world as we know it...
You work too hard
If you’re lucky enough to be born in a developed country, you’re looking at an average life expectancy of roughly 75 years. What are you going to do with those years...
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...
Sluts like us
If women don’t want to be raped, they shouldn’t dress like sluts. That’s what one Toronto constable had to say to a group of college students during a safety orientation in January...
Say no to corporate personhood
On Tuesday, July 19, Boulder City Council will hear from members of Boulder Move to Amend, who are asking council members to place a measure on the November 2011 ballot that would call for the abolition of “corporate personhood” — the granting of constitutional ...
Dems shouldn’t smirk over Santorum
In 1981, when I was a high school junior, a law was passed in the United States that made it illegal for lenders to discriminate according to sex or marital status. The law — called the Equal Credit Opportunity Act — grew out of the fact that women found themselves ...
New Age outrage
It’s a terrible lesson the New Age community has been dealt. Whether that lesson has been learned remains to be seen...
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 ...
Carr goes off the rails
In the past couple of years, the city of Boulder has done a number of things not to help the homeless, but rather to make life much more difficult for them...
Santorum gives us reason to fear the fringe
During my adult years, I’ve watched the issue of reproductive rights descend from a debate about abortion to a debate about contraception, including condoms...
End parental impunity
You’re sitting in a coffee shop. You notice that the adult sitting next to you is logged on to one of those torrent sites and is illegally downloading music, movies, books and games. Knowing that this person is breaking the law — and determined to teach him right ...
