Next month will be the tenth anniversary of when I started publishing a weekly column in the Rocky Mountain News. This afternoon Scripps Howard announced that the RMN, which is Colorado's oldest continuously operating business (150 years), will publish its last edition tomorrow. People had...
Author: Paul Campos
One uncomfortable truth about this still incredibly rich country is that fully half of middle-aged and older Americans own essentially nothing. The median 50-year-old has no retirement savings to speak.
Scott noted a couple of days ago that something doesn't become a "simmering controversy" because professional lunatic Alan Keyes thinks it's a controversy. That's true -- Keyes after all is.
I've just read (actually re-read -- first time was about 20 years ago) Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, his 1932 study of the Spanish bullfight. There's a lot of interesting stuff in the book, even if you have no interest in bullfighting per se, and...
My friend Steve, who has been married for more than a decade, points out to me that if you're married or "in a relationship" as they say on Facebook you've.
"How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health issues raise the possibility that the SCOTUS may soon not have any women on it. If Ginsburg retires, the pressure on Obama to nominate a woman to replace her will be intense. Question: what percentage of the public and of political...
America's worst op-ed columnist was only unemployed for about eight hours yesterday, as Bill Kristol was hired by the Washington Post Writers Group immediately after the NYT announced he wouldn't.
The Bush administration authorized the waterboarding of prisoners. Waterboarding is torture. Torture is prohibited by the Convention Against Torture, to which the U.S. is a signatory. This treaty requires a.
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.Homer: Thank you, dear.Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.Homer: Oh, how does it work?Lisa: It doesn’t work.Homer: Uh-huh.Lisa: It’s just...
USC coach Pete Carroll isn't happy about QB Mark Sanchez's decision to enter the NFL draft. Of course that decision is bad for Carroll's team, but Carroll is sophisticated enough.
The more one looks into this topic the more obvious it becomes that a concept like "normal weight" is so sociologically complex as to be practically meaningless.A couple of further.