Danish Plan
The devil and Lenin in Delaware
Christine O’Donnell, the woman who just won the Republican nomination for U.S. senator in Delaware, wants you to know that while she experimented with witchcraft in high school, she has since moved on...
Why the chattering classes don’t get Trump
America’s political and journalistic establishments still can’t figure out the Trump phenomenon...
A very big fish story
This could be the greatest fish story since the one about loaves and fishes — and with a lot more fish involved, at that.
But...
A Nobel Prize for Assange? How about in chemistry?
Someone in the Russian government last week (speaking anonymously so he could speak frankly, ironically enough) suggested that Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ alpha drip, deserved a Nobel Prize...
Want to bring back the draft? Here’s how.
There he goes again. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, has reintroduced his perennial bill to bring back the draft...
Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” —Yogi Berra
Back in 1984 or 1985, the late Jerry Pournelle, sci-fi writer, futurist, computer geek...
A modest proposal for settling accounts with America’s latter-day Red Guards
It was one of those war stories that if it wasn’t true, it should have been.
I first heard it in the 1960s during a...
Underground open space
Inconvenient truth alert.
It turns out that the Boulder County property owner with the most oil and gas wells on her land is none other...
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...
The man who sold Mars
The most interesting man in the world isn’t the guy selling beer for Dos Equis. It’s Elon Musk.
A couple months ago Musk, the founder...
The flood of the century? Not exactly
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...













