Danish Plan
Ratifying START was insane
The START strategic arms reduction treaty that the U.S. Senate recently approved should never have been negotiated, much less ratified...
Phoenix can see its future in Mexico (it’s not what you...
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...
Russia, social media and Cold War 2.0
About Russia using social media to meddle in the election — and undermine and disrupt American democracy and the American social fabric generally —...
Thoughts on the Fourth of July
It’s 11:17 p.m., July, 4 2015. The illegal fireworks are still going off. It’s been a constant cacophony since 5 p.m. as God intended it to be...
The Cannonball River slobs
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...
Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will
What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...
The hills are alive with the sound of fracking
Bad news, anti-frackers. The hills are alive with the sound of fracking...
Pot at the tea party
The Boston Tea Party, the original one, occurred on the night of December 16, 1773, when the Sons of Liberty, some cunningly disguised as Ward Churchill, threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. But truth be told, as a date to hold ...
Copenhagen was a success — for the Chinese
It would be wrong to say that nothing came out of the Copenhagen conference. Just ask the Chinese...
Some facts about GMO crops Jones and Gardner tried to hide
The County Commissioners’ March 17 decision to ban GMOs from Boulder County open space was rigged. Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner had their...
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (and...
I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 years old at the time. Today I am 74, but the memory is still vivid.
I...












