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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 Denver Post supports marijuana legalization — before opposing it

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The Denver Post ran an odd editorial on Oct. 15 in which it averred its support for marijuana legalization, but opposed the passage of Amendment 64, which would legalize marijuana in Colorado...

Obama, Spain and Kitty Genovese’s neighbors

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There is a good historical parallel for the Western world’s reaction to the Syrian Civil War: The Western world’s reaction to the Spanish Civil War...

Why the latest climate report will be ignored

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I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...

Bulworth and the Honey Badger

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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a case of life following art. The art in this case is the 1998 movie Bulworth. The film is an over-the-top political comedy starring Warren Beatty as Jay Billington Bulworth, a liberal Democratic U.S. Senator from California ...

Random thoughts on the Democrats’ thrillas in Vegas and Charleston

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The most entertaining moment in the Democrats’ South Carolina debate came when Elizabeth Warren affixed a needle-point bayonet to her musket and with a...

Enough!

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Dr. Mitchell Gershten of Paonia had a letter to the editor in the Daily Camera last Saturday certain to have set atwitter the heart of every oil company hater in Boulder County...

CU’s misguided 4/20 approach

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CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...

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....

Underground open space

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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...

A modest proposal for ending the budget impasse

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In his weekly radio address this past Saturday, President Obama called on Republicans and Democrats to make “political sacrifices” to break the budget impasse and prevent the collapse of civilization as we know it...

Could anti-frackers derail renewable energy?

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I learned a new word this week, the mere mention of which may cause the heads of anti-frackers to blow up all over Boulder County. The...