Danish Plan
Cain’s manager inhales
A lot of politicos, left and right, seem mystified by an ad produced by Herman Cain, the former pizza CEO who — to their amazement and bemusement — is leading in most of the recent polls for the Republican nomination for president...
Nixon on why I like Newt
Harvey and I were just tucking into a new batch of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door...
Why Romney lost — and how to win next time
Republicans have started a conversation on why they lost the election and on what they have to do to win the next one...
A gentleman’s C for the pot task force
I’ve been reading the recommendations of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force. They mostly remind me of Mark Twain’s description of Wagner’s music: “It’s better than it sounds.” But just barely...
CU’s misguided 4/20 approach
CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...
A typical massacre in Aurora
In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...
Obama’s happy dance with Iran
Obama is riding hell-bent for leather toward a nuclear deal with Iran which — if the leaked outlines of it are remotely accurate — will turn the United States into the principal enabler and legitimizer of Iran’s nuclear ambitions...
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...
Think globally and frack locally
Think globally and act locally? Some do it better than others...
Turn Syria’s refugees into a liberation army
Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama’s pal Rahm Emmanuel once famously remarked, adding that what he meant by that was “it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before...
Fight terrorism by creating a gas glut
Coal is a hydrocarbon that, to the profound annoyance of a lot of people, sustains civilization as we know it. It’s mainly used to generate electricity, and nearly half the electricity used in the U.S. comes from coal-fired power plants. Another 20 percent comes from...
The heart of the city — what’s to be done?
According to a story in the Sunday edition of Brand X paper, Boulder planners are looking for ideas about how to further develop Boulder’s “civic heart” — by which they mean the area bounded by Ninth and 17th Streets on the west and east, and Arapahoe and Canyon on...
