Danish Plan

Anti-GMO activism is evil

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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, 88 percent of the 2011 U.S. corn crop consists of genetically engineered varieties — either herbicide-tolerant types like Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, or insect-resistant types ...

Shakespeare, like youth, is wasted on the young. Or is it?

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Had Dana Dusbiber written the op-ed piece she had in the Washington Post last week while I was in high school, I would have nominated her for teacher of the year...

The Oroville Dam: A cautionary tale from 1969

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Curt Gentry was no Nostradamus or Edgar Cayce, but he made a prediction in 1969 that would have done either of them proud —...

My persons of the year

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Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...

A very big fish story

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This could be the greatest fish story since the one about loaves and fishes — and with a lot more fish involved, at that. But...

The Grim Reaper and the Charmin squeeze

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The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back — banana nut bread is the gift that keeps on giving — when there was a...

Obama, Putin and pigeon chess

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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...

Democracy dies in darkness — among other places

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Early last year the Washington Post, after vetting about 500 candidate slogans, adopted as its motto the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” An interesting choice,...

Who was hiding the snake?

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Ding, dong. The snake is dead...

Bomb Gaddafi’s runways

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Obama. Bomb the freaking runways...

Total elapsed time: 80 seconds

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On Dec. 13, Karl Halverson Pierson, a disgruntled student, entered Arapahoe High School in Littleton in a murderous frame of mind...

The hills are alive with the sound of fracking

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Bad news, anti-frackers. The hills are alive with the sound of fracking...