Danish Plan
Old and in the way at age 50
Boulder geezers — and we’re talking about anyone over age 50 here — you’re through!
Done! Fini! Kaput! Finito!
Old and in the way! And not...
Ben Carson and the ink-stained knaves
Ben Carson spent last week — to paraphrase Kipling — hearing his words twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools...
The drug war turns 40
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...
Is this the end of Boulder as we know it? Yep
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...
Is Nablus Boulder’s weird sister?
According to a story in last Sunday’s Camera, a group has emerged that wants to establish a sister city relationship between Boulder and the Palestinian city of Nablus...
How will the great American social distancing experiment end?
How will America’s great social distancing experiment end? Just guessing, but I suspect toward the end of April, millions of Americans will say, in...
Biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history? Hogwash!
In the course of reporting that BP had finally stopped the flow of oil in its Macondo well, a CNN reporter casually referred to the blowout as “the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.” Obama said the same thing a couple of months ago. They are both full ...
Funding social security without raising taxes
This year’s budget battles have at least produced two points of clarity...
Nine ways to run a computer
A couple of weeks ago, the Weekly printed a letter from Jim Bryant taking me to task for dissing the decision by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to locate its new $500 million supercomputer in Cheyenne, Wyo. — where it can get cheap, coalgenerated...
The list and who’s off it — first cut
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 ...
The Donald better start feeling the Bern
Here’s a curious little detail about this year’s presidential race that’s been hiding in plain sight in the polls since January and ignored by...
Reports of the death of the oil industry are greatly exaggerated
A year ago, a lot of green- washed Luddites were wondering out loud about whether the global collapse of oil prices would accomplish what...
