Danish Plan

A modest proposal to protect members of Congress

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I have a modest proposal for increasing the security for U.S. Congressmen without isolating them from their constituents anymore than they already are...

CU should expand in Louisville, not on South Boulder Creek

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There’s a much better place for the University of Colorado Boulder to build its putative academic village than in the mined-out gravel pit at...

A modest proposal to end all the sexual tomfoolery in Congress

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I have a modest proposal to put an end once and for all to all the sexual tomfoolery going on in Congress and congressional offices....

A modest proposal to prevent meddling in our elections

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I have a modest proposal for a sure-fire, 100-percent certain way of keeping Putin or anyone else from meddling in American elections. Get rid...

2016 and the demographics of social issues

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Republicans are feeling pretty good about their chances of winning the presidency next year. They’ve got a strong (if currently overcrowded) bench of candidates and a lot of the likely issues are breaking their way...

The Grim Reaper and the Charmin squeeze

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The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back — banana nut bread is the gift that keeps on giving — when there was a...

The eagle has landed — with extreme prejudice

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Wind turbines have killed at least 67 eagles in the last five years, and probably a lot more, according to a report issued last September by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists...

A question of citizenship

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The Trump administration may be about to toss The Resistance a New Year’s hand grenade. The left-leaning website ProPublica last week reported that the U.S....

Another lump of coal

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NCAR is going to build a giant new supercomputer, the better to study climate change, which is cool. Indeed, the project has already provided one profound, if wickedly ironic, insight into the problem...

Boulder’s latest green dreams

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The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...

OMG! The Roughnecks are coming!

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Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming! The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...

Straight out of CU (and Louisville): A battery that could change...

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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...