Opinion
Babies on trial
We Americans believe everyone has a right to have their day in court. Right?
But what if the court is turned into a loony bin,...
How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government?
Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” ...
Letters: 5/11/17
Mom’s Day
Mother’s Day is when we celebrate the efforts of moms everywhere to deliver on the promise they make to us when we’re born,...
Coca-Cola’s corrosive corporate ethos
If your car’s battery terminals are corroded, just open a can of Coca- Cola. Coke will dissolve corrosion, making your battery connections spiffy clean in a jiffy...
Transforming humans into billboards
Billboards must to be living creatures, for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere, growing to enormous size, shouting corporate messages at us — and...
Trump’s tax-cut scam worked perfectly
Remember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending...
How Budweiser locks out free enterprise competitors
The word “free” in “free enterprise” is not an adjective, it’s a verb — as in, let’s “free up” the enterprise of small businesspeople who’re locked out of the marketplace by monopoly power...
Big shot banker proves big banks are too big
In April, Jamie Dimon — the swaggering chief of JPMorgan Chase — scoffed at critics who warned that his bank’s high-flying investment division was dangerously overextended and risking collapse: “A complete tempest in a teapot,” scoffed Dimon...
Ban fracking? Why stop there?
I have a modest proposal to resolve the fractious issue of fracking in Colorado. It’s a win-win amendment to the Colorado Constitution that will pass in a landslide...








