Danish Plan
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...
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...
OMG! The Roughnecks are coming!
Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming!
The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...
UFOs: Undocumented aliens or black projects?
The best news stories are mysteries, and the queen of journo mysteries is the UFO story. It’s been around since World War II, when...
Another lump of coal
NCAR is going to build a giant new supercomputer, the better to study climate change, which is cool. Indeed, the project has already provided one profound, if wickedly ironic, insight into the problem...
The heart of the city — what’s to be done?
According to a story in the Sunday edition of Brand X paper, Boulder planners are looking for ideas about how to further develop Boulder’s “civic heart” — by which they mean the area bounded by Ninth and 17th Streets on the west and east, and Arapahoe and Canyon on...
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 ...
Banning corporate personhood would destroy U.S. economy
About the anti-corporate personhood referendum that might be on the Boulder ballot this November — I smell a rat. Several, in fact...
Big Organic behaving badly (much worse than Monsanto)
Bad news, anti-GMO-ers. It isn’t Big Ag and Monsanto that’s been ruining your dinner. It’s Big Organic Ag.
You don’t have to take my word...
The folly of compulsory national service
The New York Times columnist David Brooks wants to bring back the draft. Or at least some form of compulsory universal national service. He thinks it will bring Americans back together again...
What hath BP found?
On Jan. 10, 1901, roughnecks working on a 1,020-foot-deep oil well near Beaumont, Texas, were lowering the drill string back into their well when, without warning, the drilling mud began furiously bubbling back out of the hole. Alarmed, the crew ran for it. This ...
The Cutter incident: A cautionary tale for Operation Warp Speed
The Trump administration is calling its push for a coronavirus vaccine “Operation Warp Speed.” If you don’t find the name cringe-worthy, you’re not old...
