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Mitt and the Bain thing

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About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...

The prince who read the instruction manual

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The Washington press corps is shocked, shocked that Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman (aka MBS) may have ordered the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, a...

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 ...

The list and who’s off it — first cut

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I don’t for a second doubt that any of the 22 candidates currently running for President — 17 Republicans and five Democrats — could run the country if they happened to get elected. This isn’t because they are political geniuses. It’s because the genius of the ...

Is this the end of Boulder as we know it? Yep

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Former Boulder City Councilman Steve Pomerance had an op-ed piece in the Daily Camera last Sunday that appeared under the headline “Is this the...

Goodbye to the five-year ‘timeout’

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In what must be the most predictable court decision of the decade, the Colorado Supreme Court last week struck down Longmont’s ban on fracking...

The drug war turns 40

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I was just kicking back with my second piece of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...

Trump and the cry-baby media

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It used to be that the press knew how to take it in as well as how to dish it out. That was then. This...

Phoenix can see its future in Mexico (it’s not what you...

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On May 12, the planet’s atmosphere hit one of those “grim milestones” we hear so much about. According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory...

Boulder’s suit against ExxonMobil is based on a pack of lies

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The Boulder City Council has done some astonishingly stupid things when it steps outside of its core areas of incompetence, which include managing growth,...

What the Russians were really up to

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So did the Russians hack the election, and if so, why, and did Trump collude with them? Here’s what I think will come out of...

Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems

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“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...