Tag: Jul 21 2016 issue
It’s ‘Ghostbusters,’ whaddya want?
Sadly, but as expected, news that writer/director Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters would feature four women in the lead roles was met by the...
Never gonna be president now
A fitting fable: Scorpion asked Frog if he would carry him across the river. Frog, afraid of being stung by Scorpion, hesitated.
“Never fear,” Scorpion...
Off-road nibbling
During summer’s peak travel season I get variations on the same question from friends and sometimes strangers that go something like this: “We’re driving...
Just another plant
In five test fields across the state, hemp plants are pushing toward the sun in the nation’s first hemp seed certification program. The global...
Hotter and hotter; Earth’s quasi satellite
Summers to get hotter and hotter
New research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NOAA) shows that at the planet’s current heating rate, in...
First, they came for the ice cream
H. L. Mencken, the great 20th century iconoclast, defined “Puritanism” as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.”
Boulder is chock-full of puritans...
Putting ‘The People’ in a political platform
What if a political party’s platform actually stood for workaday people, rather than being a catalogue of far-out, right-wing nuttiness, or a batch of...
