Opinion
How to make childbirth more painful
Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making this stuff up...
Massey Energy’s man-made hellhole
West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine was a disaster even before it exploded into an underground hell last year, killing 29 miners. A new investigative report by federal safety inspectors found that this mine — owned by the enormously profitable Massey ...
Letters | Farewell to Uncensored
(Re: “-30-,” Uncensored, Aug. 30.) I’m sitting here wondering just when you creative, political women in Boulder are gonna quit breakin’ my damn heart ... puhleeze...
Trump’s dangerous rhetoric
Rapists. Murderers. Drug Dealers. Gang Bangers. Donald Trump said the clever Mexican government is conning weak and stupid American leaders by “sending” mostly “really bad” people into the U.S...
Fighting the superbugs of agribusiness
Not so long ago, the “miracle cure” of antibiotics prompted doctors to prescribe them for illnesses as minor as colds and upset tummies. But, then, people began to die. In droves. Why? Overuse of antibiotics led to the rapid evolution of savvy bacteria resistant ...
Flagging the lies of Big Oil’s frackers on the 4th of...
Big Oil’s frigging frackers are wrapping their shameless profiteering in our flag...
Tech execs say U.S. is failing them
Last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire. “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Good question! We need to ...
It’s past time for Polis to decide on fast track for...
Some people just can’t make up their minds. Where should I eat? Blue or red? The Voice or Dancing with the Stars? Obviously, indecision on the part of most people doesn’t have much significance for the rest of us, but that’s not true of everyone. When Congressman ...
Enough!
Dr. Mitchell Gershten of Paonia had a letter to the editor in the Daily Camera last Saturday certain to have set atwitter the heart of every oil company hater in Boulder County...
Future, our future: think about it
The other day, while listening to the radio, I heard an ad from the gas industry that said gas provides energy whenever you need it, even when the sun is not shining — inaccurately implying that the energy from solar panels cannot be used at night. The ad ended with ...
