Danish Plan
Climate change & the ingratitude of the eighth generation
“Why should I do anything for posterity...
GMOs: Boulder County’s November surprise
Boulder is full of Democrats — Ds outnumber Rs two-to-one — so the county’s election results didn’t exactly come as a bolt from the blue...
Orwell got it backwards
Recently someone in Iran or Turkey had an insight: Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, peace activism is too important to be left to the pacifists. As a result, Islamists around the Middle East are getting in touch with their inner peace ...
Eight reasons to arm Libya’s rebels
There seems to be a big debate going on in the Obama administration over whether we should arm and train the Libyan rebels...
Blacks, police and marijuana
There are three simple things President Barack Obama can do to reduce the sort of confrontations between cops and young black men that occasionally get the latter killed and much more often get them arrested...
A typical massacre in Aurora
In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...
Hamas does not give shelter
If there is one thing Hamas is really good at, it’s digging tunnels. Hamas, and like-minded militant factions like Islamic Jihad, have dug more than a thousand tunnels under the Gaza-Egyptian border. (Last March, Egypt said it had closed more than 1,300.) It has ...
Ben Carson and the ink-stained knaves
Ben Carson spent last week — to paraphrase Kipling — hearing his words twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools...
Nine ways to run a computer
A couple of weeks ago, the Weekly printed a letter from Jim Bryant taking me to task for dissing the decision by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to locate its new $500 million supercomputer in Cheyenne, Wyo. — where it can get cheap, coalgenerated...
