Opinion
Nixon’s negative campaigns
Harvey and I were chowing down on an excellent plate of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...
A more genteel political corruption
Not only does corporate political money shout, scream, bellow and bay in our elections, but afterwards it quietly slips into the back rooms of power to talk softly about payback...
Letters | Danish and sex
Correction: The Aug. 23 article “A certain kind of kin” attributed the quote “Is that Duane Allman?” to Ben Kaufman instead of Dave Johnston...
Where’s the ethical balance of America’s scales of justice?
Is it really “fair and balanced”? I don’t mean the ridiculous Fox TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own PR slogan — but, rather, a network that actually matters in our society: America’s legal system...
Letters | Another Danish fan
Mr. Danish does readers and himself a disservice (“Fracking out of a recession,” July 12) when he claims pervasive, orbital, oracular knowledge after reading one bullet point in an international economics magazine. Like an infinite number of monkeys, a 10-year-old ...
The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome)
The anti-fracking activists who demonstrated at an oil rig on Boulder County open space last Saturday obviously don’t think fracking is very dangerous. How else do you explain the fact that they brought their kids to the demonstration...
A fracking conflict of interest
ExxonMobil, Halliburton and other giants of the hydraulic fracturing industry not only are fracking deep gas wells all over our country, they’re also trying to frack our heads...
Letters | Finley’s poison pill
Correction: A July 26 Uncensored column, “Mental health care, not gun laws,” incorrectly stated that among the laws believed to have been broken by the suspect in the July 20 Aurora movie theater shootings was that he had acquired an extended magazine for his AR-...
The Koch brothers’ black liquor moonshine
Question: If you mix a cocktail of “black liquor,” biofuels, diesel and a generous splash of tax subsidies — then have it shaken vigorously by Sen. Mike Crapo and served in a golden goblet by corporate lobbyists — what do you call it? Answer: Koch Brothers Moonshine...
Letters | Thanks for Longmont piece
I am writing in response to your article “State of Colorado bullies Longmont ...” (commentary, Aug. 2...
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...