Danish Plan
Who killed Proposition 19?
Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...
Forget Nablus and mediation — there’s a better choice for sister...
About 20 or 30 years ago, some local peace and justice activists decided to resolve the conflict over abortion by bringing representatives of 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...
When it comes to sustainability, roads are more important than compost
As a matter of full disclosure, Paul Danish is currently running for County Commissioner. Should any other candidates for County Commissioner or current Commissioners...
No water for fracking? No problem
One of the latest — and sillier — local whines against fracking is that it is a profligate consumer of water that takes 33,000 acre feet of the stuff permanently out of the state’s hydraulic cycle...
Is the world’s most interesting man running for president?
Forget about the guy who used to sell Dos Equis.
The world’s most interesting man is Andrew Yang.
OK, maybe he’s the world’s second most interesting...
When Palestine declares its independence
Odds are that this week or next the Palestinians will unilaterally declare their independence. What happens next...
Last message from Myachka
I’m writing this week’s rant on Sunday evening, April 28, which this year was the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew...
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...
What the commissioners can (and can’t) do about fracking
Last Sunday’s Daily Camera contained an op-ed piece signed by all three Boulder County Commissioners explaining to their constituents, yet again, why they can’t...
Fighting climate change like World War II
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a lot of snickers a couple weeks ago when she said Millennials and Gen Z “thought the world is gonna end...
Obama, Putin and pigeon chess
It is not true — as some conservative websites have recently claimed — that Vladimir Putin once remarked that “negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the...
