Danish Plan
Trump and the shutdown: The return of the honey badger
Don’t be surprised if Trump gets himself a bust of Ulysses Grant to go with the bust of Andrew Jackson he keeps in the...
What hath BP found?
On Jan. 10, 1901, roughnecks working on a 1,020-foot-deep oil well near Beaumont, Texas, were lowering the drill string back into their well when, without warning, the drilling mud began furiously bubbling back out of the hole. Alarmed, the crew ran for it. This ...
The muni’s time has passed
Sometimes conflicts go on for so long that people forget how they started.
Take the fight over whether Boulder should ditch Xcel energy as its...
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 ...
A Nobel Prize for Assange? How about in chemistry?
Someone in the Russian government last week (speaking anonymously so he could speak frankly, ironically enough) suggested that Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ alpha drip, deserved a Nobel Prize...
It’s just like the sanctuary city movement, only with live ammunition
Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.
Good and hard.
Remember the sanctuary city movement, the strategy the Resistance (or the Democratic...
Real tax reform means everyone pays something
Chances are the tax increases, cuts and fiddles President Obama proposed during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night are DOA in the Republican-controlled Congress. And chances are the tax cuts, increases and fiddles the Republicans will propose shortly are ...
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...
What the Russians were really up to
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...
A gentleman’s C for the pot task force
I’ve been reading the recommendations of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force. They mostly remind me of Mark Twain’s description of Wagner’s music: “It’s better than it sounds.” But just barely...
Nixon’s take on Bolton and Bernie
The Idea Fairy and me were polishing off our latest plate of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard...
