Danish Plan

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...

A modest proposal for settling accounts with America’s latter-day Red Guards

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It was one of those war stories that if it wasn’t true, it should have been. I first heard it in the 1960s during a...

Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will

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What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...

The man who sold Mars

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The most interesting man in the world isn’t the guy selling beer for Dos Equis. It’s Elon Musk. A couple months ago Musk, the founder...

Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union

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The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...

A modest proposal for combating the plague of robocalls

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Like the United States Constitution, the Constitution of the State of Colorado contains a clause protecting the right to keep and bear arms. It’s found...

The Cannonball River slobs

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The activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline call themselves “Water Protectors,” but there’s a more evocative one-syllable Anglo-Saxonism that better describes them. Slobs. Now that the...

Reports of the death of the oil industry are greatly exaggerated

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A year ago, a lot of green- washed Luddites were wondering out loud about whether the global collapse of oil prices would accomplish what...

The cost of killing nuclear power

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”For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” — John Greenleaf Whittier I t’s been obvious for a...

Longmont fracking suit: What if Longmont wins?

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Longmont’s ban on fracking, which was struck down by a district judge earlier this year, appears headed for the Colorado Supreme Court...

The dark horses of 2016

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The best advice I ever got about running for office came from Faye Johnson, a fierce Democratic warrior and former Boulder County Democratic Party chair. It consisted of exactly three words: “Make no assumptions...

The great flatulence of 2016

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The Idea Fairy and I were nibbling on a new batch of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Saul Alinsky. “Saul,...