Danish Plan
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...
CU’s misguided 4/20 approach
CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...
Nixon explains why Trump won
The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back after the election when suddenly the door flew open and a shadowy figure emerged through the...
Another year, another record and COP25
Another year, another record.
That’s the headline on a press release issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reporting that carbon dioxide levels...
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...
Redeveloping 11th and Pearl
Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment 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...
The anti-Electoral College compact may come with a nasty surprise
The Colorado legislature approved a bill on Feb. 21 to cast Colorado’s electoral votes for president for the candidate who gets the most popular...
Climate change: U.N. takes on wrong problem — again
The United Nations is holding a global climate conference in Durban, South Africa, this week and next for the purpose of breathing new life into the Kyoto Protocol or, short of that, forging some other international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions...
Blacks, police and marijuana
There are three simple things President Barack Obama can do to reduce the sort of confrontations between cops and young black men that occasionally get the latter killed and much more often get them arrested...
Obama goes nuclear — will carbon caps follow?
According to a recent Reuters article, the U.S. Senate is about to take up climate change/capand-trade/energy legislation again, which, politically, is like taking up serpents...













