Danish Plan
Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will
What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...
Biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history? Hogwash!
In the course of reporting that BP had finally stopped the flow of oil in its Macondo well, a CNN reporter casually referred to the blowout as “the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.” Obama said the same thing a couple of months ago. They are both full ...
Climate science — and why the world won’t listen
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the executive summary of its latest report on global warming on Sept. 26. It stated, among other things, that hundreds of scientists are more certain than ever that the planet is warming up and that ...
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 ...
Why would anyone need a gun or an abortion?
A frequent refrain of gun control freaks is “Why does anyone need a gun?” Good question. I’ll get to it in a minute...
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...
Climate change & the ingratitude of the eighth generation
“Why should I do anything for posterity...
No water for fracking? No problem
One of the latest — and sillier — local whines against fracking is that it is a profligate consumer of water that takes 33,000 acre feet of the stuff permanently out of the state’s hydraulic cycle...
A modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington
I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...
