(Quipped NPRs blog, The Two- Way: Thats supposed to be @God, isnt it?) Its tempting to think that Shurtleff tweeted about this because having the power to choose life or death for another human being bothered him and he sought redemption through public confession.

The cutting edge when it comes to marijuana is full legalization and taxation. Medical marijuana amounts to partial legalization to enable those who need it to take advantage of the plants medicinal benefits. Its an interim step and one that other communities in Colorado have been savvy enough to embrace.

There are so many reasons to loathe BP that theyre getting hard to count. If you havent been sickened by oil sludge on beaches, the sight of suffering and dying wildlife or the news that BP met survivors of their oil rig explosion at the shore...

You remember the one, where one minute Chris Bartkowicz was bragging to a TV reporter about how much pot he had in his basement, and the next minute there are DEA agents at his door, despite the federal edict passed down last fall telling the DEA to...

When it comes to making gays and lesbians equal citizens of our republic, the wheels sure do turn slowly. This week, national headlines trumpeted progress in repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), the Clinton-era policy by which gays and lesbians are allowed to serve in the U.S. military as long as they pretend not to be queer.

The studied researched women's and men's mortality and how it might be affected by marital status. While marriage was shown to increase a man's life expectancy, particularly if he's married to a younger woman, the reverse was true for women. Regardless of whether womens spouses were older or younger, married women had shorter.

No sooner had we called out Sen. Dave “Police State” Schultheis in this space last week for defending that new anti-immigrant law in Arizona than he called for a boycott of Boulder because of the city’s ban on travel to that state. How very R-Colorado Springs of him. Oh no! What will we do if all of those right-wingnuts stop coming to Boulder and spending their money?! Our restaurants will close! The undocumented workers sweating away over those kitchen stoves and sinks will lose their jobs, and they will have to move south, to Colorado Springs maybe, to find work!

Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, ripped into DPS Supt. Tom Boasberg. Instead of imposing politically motivated travel bans, perhaps Mr. Boasberg ought to focus on improving a school system that fails far too many kids each and every day.

Those familiar with the group's tactics told the small crowd that the last thing Boulder community members should do is to mount a massive counterprotest, because that's what Westboro feeds on, and it might make them want to return to our fair city. If they are met with silence, indifference and no publicity, they tend to move on.

Hard to believe that in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave it was impossible for gays and lesbians to have their partners with them during medical treatment in some hospitals, even when they lay on their deathbeds.