Danish Plan
A modest proposal to end all the sexual tomfoolery in Congress
I have a modest proposal to put an end once and for all to all the sexual tomfoolery going on in Congress and congressional offices....
Underground open space
Inconvenient truth alert.
It turns out that the Boulder County property owner with the most oil and gas wells on her land is none other...
Boulder’s latest green dreams
The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...
How to increase Colorado’s water supply
President Barack Obama gave a speech last week in California, which is enduring the worst drought in its recorded history, and he called on the country to rethink how it deals with water...
Gaza: The usual suspects and the usual lies
Whenever Hamas’s excitable boys in Gaza pick a fight with Israel — as they did in 2008, 2014 and this spring — it plays...
Governor Hick’s Kinsley gaffe
Last Week Governor Hickenlooper gave a speech at the City Club of Denver, during which he said this about Denver being short listed for...
How to unsettle settled science (and settled scientists)
Talk about getting hoist with your own petard.
Australian climate scientists have succeeded in convincing the management of the country’s main research institution, The Commonwealth...
The campaign to pass the Danish Plan
The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...
Who wants a big, cool rocket?
A couple of days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully flew its Falcon Heavy rocket last week, a USA Today headline asked: “SpaceX Falcon Heavy —...
The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses
Donald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of...
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre
A few days after Nikolas Cruz allegedly perpetrated Valentine’s Day Massacre version 2.0 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, it emerged...
2016 and the demographics of social issues
Republicans are feeling pretty good about their chances of winning the presidency next year. They’ve got a strong (if currently overcrowded) bench of candidates and a lot of the likely issues are breaking their way...