Danish Plan
Nixon on why I like Newt
Harvey and I were just tucking into a new batch of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door...
Trump’s victory and the price of cars
When I first saw the headline on strategy maven Edward Luttwak’s piece in the Times Literary Supplement — “Why The Trump Dynasty Will Last...
The return of the ferret
Good news. The Black-footed ferret, once called the most endangered mammal on the planet, is coming to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal...
Nixon explains why Trump won
The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back after the election when suddenly the door flew open and a shadowy figure emerged through the...
A modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington
I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...
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On Dec. 13, Karl Halverson Pierson, a disgruntled student, entered Arapahoe High School in Littleton in a murderous frame of mind...
Obama, Putin and pigeon chess
It is not true — as some conservative websites have recently claimed — that Vladimir Putin once remarked that “negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the...
The drug war turns 40
I was just kicking back with my second piece of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...
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 ...
Last message from Myachka
I’m writing this week’s rant on Sunday evening, April 28, which this year was the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew...
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...
Cage match! Canada/New York edition
Cage match!
Trump and Cruz are down in the mud and the blood and the beer, punching and kicking and clawing and generally trying to...








