Danish Plan

For whom the road tolls

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Send not to know; For whom the road tolls; It tolls for thee...

Fracking out of a recession

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Let’s begin with a short quiz...

Boulder’s lifestyle depends on the use of fracking

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A couple of weeks ago the price of natural gas dropped below $2 per thousand cubic feet, the lowest it has been in more than a decade before rebounding somewhat. For that, the 99 percent — the 99 percent of Boulder residents who heat their homes with natural gas, ...

Barack and the Choom Gang

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According to a new Rasmussen poll of likely voters, 56 percent of those surveyed favor legalizing marijuana and regulating it like alcohol. That might turn into something of a problem for the current president of the United States, who according to a new biography ...

A modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington

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I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...

The Democrats don’t get the Tea Party

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  It`s pretty much settled Democratic Party theology that the Tea Party movement consists of little more than racist, angry white male knuckle draggers. Inconveniently, the stereotype is wrong...

A modest proposal for settling accounts with America’s latter-day Red Guards

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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...

China’s new cyber totalitarianism

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Human Rights Watch has released a report on human rights abuses in the world’s largest totalitarian state — the People’s Republic of China. And...

Obama goes nuclear — will carbon caps follow?

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According to a recent Reuters article, the U.S. Senate is about to take up climate change/capand-trade/energy legislation again, which, politically, is like taking up serpents...

A tale from The Swamp

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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...

Scotland’s burning! Greenland’s melting!

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The song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher...

Nixon explains the election

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The Idea Fairy and I were testing out a new batch of edibles we’d baked when there was a knock on the door. It was...