Danish Plan
A tale from The Swamp
I’ve been spending the summer cleaning out a locker (aka the black hole) at an undisclosed location in north Boulder, which means I’ve been...
The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes
A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...
The cost of killing nuclear power
”For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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t’s been obvious for a...
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 ...
San Francisco’s suit against ExxonMobil goes up in smoke
Well that didn’t take long.
On April 17, Boulder sued ExxonMobil and Suncor for damages stemming from global warming caused by the carbon dioxide released...
Macron and les deplorables
French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Paris from the G20 Summit, where he reaffirmed France’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, to discover a...
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...
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...
The muni’s time has passed
Sometimes conflicts go on for so long that people forget how they started.
Take the fight over whether Boulder should ditch Xcel energy as its...
Total elapsed time: 80 seconds
On Dec. 13, Karl Halverson Pierson, a disgruntled student, entered Arapahoe High School in Littleton in a murderous frame of mind...
How to stop illegal immigration
I have a modest proposal for solving the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico without building a fence along the border or granting amnesty to those here illegally. Conquer Mexico. You know. Kind of like conquistadors, only north to south this time. Get ...
