Danish Plan
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...
A question of citizenship
The Trump administration may be about to toss The Resistance a New Year’s hand grenade.
The left-leaning website ProPublica last week reported that the U.S....
America needs more secret meetings
I have a modest proposal for breaking the political paralysis that grips Washington like a cold, dead hand slowly contracting around Uncle Sam’s throat...
Want to bring back the draft? Here’s how.
There he goes again. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, has reintroduced his perennial bill to bring back the draft...
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 cost of killing nuclear power
”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...
CU should expand in Louisville, not on South Boulder Creek
There’s a much better place for the University of Colorado Boulder to build its putative academic village than in the mined-out gravel pit at...
Polis plays the Nazi card
Following the passage of Arizona’s new immigration law last month, Boulder Congressman Jared Polis unburdened himself of the following thoughts to the POLITICO website: “It is absolutely reminiscent of second-class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II...
So you want to get rid of the cops? Here are...
So you want to get rid of the police, huh?
So then what?
Who are you going to call — what are you going to do...
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...
Random thoughts on the Democrats’ thrillas in Vegas and Charleston
The most entertaining moment in the Democrats’ South Carolina debate came when Elizabeth Warren affixed a needle-point bayonet to her musket and with a...
Driving to ban drilling
About 150 people turned up at the Plaza Hotel’s Conference Center in Longmont last Monday to try to browbeat the Boulder County commissioners into banning oil and gas drilling in Boulder County. Chances are most of them drove to the meeting. In cars fueled by ...
