Danish Plan
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...
Trump and the shutdown: The return of the honey badger
Don’t be surprised if Trump gets himself a bust of Ulysses Grant to go with the bust of Andrew Jackson he keeps in the...
Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November
Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep.
Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...
The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome)
The anti-fracking activists who demonstrated at an oil rig on Boulder County open space last Saturday obviously don’t think fracking is very dangerous. How else do you explain the fact that they brought their kids to the demonstration...
Climate change: U.N. takes on wrong problem — again
The United Nations is holding a global climate conference in Durban, South Africa, this week and next for the purpose of breathing new life into the Kyoto Protocol or, short of that, forging some other international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions...
The marketplace of ideas
Whatever else it did, the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — that’s the campaign finance case — has prompted a lot of Boulder lefties to take pen in hand and hyperventilate that the American republic, and possibly ...
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...
Why Romney lost — and how to win next time
Republicans have started a conversation on why they lost the election and on what they have to do to win the next one...
Straight out of CU (and Louisville): A battery that could change...
This could be huge.
Really huge.
Let’s hope it is.
There’s a startup company in Louisville that started registering on the radar this week. Its name is...
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...
Why the chattering classes don’t get Trump
America’s political and journalistic establishments still can’t figure out the Trump phenomenon...
Russia, social media and Cold War 2.0
About Russia using social media to meddle in the election — and undermine and disrupt American democracy and the American social fabric generally —...
