Opinion
Pot legalization day in Colorado more orderly than Black Friday
On Nov. 9, 1989, BW marijuana columnist Leland Rucker and I kicked back on his couch, cracked a couple of Buds, fired up a spliff, and waited for the Berlin Wall to come down...
Letters | Defending marriage
Clarification: A Jan. 12 story, “A tale of two predators,” stated that Brent Brents estimated he had raped 60 men, women and children in his lifetime. In fact, he guessed he raped 60 people during the seven months he was out of jail. During his lifetime, he guessed ...
Tilling our public treasury
Some aspects of American agriculture are quite odd. For example, to meet a farmer these days, there’s no need for you to venture out to the hinterland — because thousands of them actually are city slickers...
Presidential candidates talk inequality (sort of)
At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class...
Repeal the Patriot Act
It’s back. The Patriot Act — a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans...
The poppy war in Afghanistan
Oh to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom...
The real scandal in Denny Hastert’s life
Washington’s gossip mill is spinning furiously over the recent revelations about Dennis Hastert’s long hidden sexual molestation scandal. But what about the filthy, backroom affair he’s been openly conducting with corporate lobbyists for nearly two decades...
Coming together
A militant alliance of unionized workers and environmentalists is emerging out of the first national oil refinery strike since 1980. An Unfair Labor Practices strike began on Feb. 1 after talks broke down between the United Steel Workers (USW) and Royal Dutch Shell, ...
Biotech runs amuck. Again
When asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up such fuzzy stuff as “world peace” and “more kindness...
The pleasant surprises of October
Tipping point alert: October 2013 may go down as the month that American public opinion decisively tipped in favor of legalizing marijuana and consigning 76 years of vicious prohibitionist reefer madness to history’s landfill...
Boeing’s ‘virtual fence’ comes a cropper
It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George “The Decider” Bush. In 2005, to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, Bush directed that an electronic “virtual fence” be built to detect “bad guys” trekking into our country. Of course, like all things Bush, he ...
The super-rich literally live in their own world
Attention class: Today’s word is “fractal inequality...
