Month: December 2021
For me this year featured ten people getting murdered at the grocery store directly across the street from my first place in Boulder, and ended with the entire neighborhood I just moved out of burning
Is there anything more nonsensical than dental coverage being separate from health coverage? As if your mouth is not part of your body. It’s just complete nonsense. And yet, here we are, with th
In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt got in the middle of a coal mining strike because he believed the United Mine Workers of America was a respectable organization with reasonable demands and because he knew
So I had a long-held political theory that is clearly incorrect. That theory was that if the Supreme Court did in fact overrule Roe, it would cause a massive uproar in America, with nearly unprecedent
Great interview with Greta Thunberg where she gets at many of the reasons why I and others think she is such an important leader in the climate fight. It’s not just that she has become famous
When I moved to Boulder 31 years ago, the median price of a single family home in the city was $125,000 ($264,000 in 2021 dollars). This April, the median — the median, not the average — p
This is a very bad situation: A wind-whipped grassfire roared east from Boulder Thursday afternoon, destroying at least 500 homes, closing major highways and causing the evacuation of more than 30,000
Looks like the Ron DeSantis: America’s COVID Governor victory tour has been suspended again: As Florida reported nearly 47,000 new coronavirus cases, again shattering its single-day record since
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,261
- Cancel culture, the reality
- Pay No Attention to the Man Who Keeps Yelling From Behind the Curtain
- And it’s a long day livin’ up your own ass
- Drugs and moral panics
- The JCPOA Is Dead
- Dark Brandon gives the corpse of David Broder a sad
- Ways and Means committee likely to release Trump’s midterms
- Tax Prison Labor
- Deadly Politics