It’s time to say “enough” to war And so when thirty years from now our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm, or a face, and small…
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2011
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More light shines with solstice Finally! The Solstice arrives at 10:30 (MST) tonight. Hereon, sunlight time will lengthen, except maybe in Georgetown. By the time he surmounts the town’s eastern ridge,…
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Football, religion don’t mix Tis the season: Tiny Tim Time unless you’re a member of the latest cult of personality. Then it is Mighty Tim Time. Some might confuse Tiny Tim…
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Good politics means leveling the field Remember commenting as a kid about a school-yard fisticuff, “It was a fair fight”? We celebrate the underdog who despite daunting but not impossible odds…
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Unbridled capitalism needs an underclass In a recent article, Joyce Shelby, emeritus professor of history at UCLA and the author of The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, writes, “From 1776…
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It’s a good time to give thanks I’ve been considering changing the name of this column. Not that it matters; after all, NY Times columnists don’t title theirs nor do Denver…
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Ruminations on Andy Rooney I’m going to miss Andy Rooney. Not that I watched him without fail or hung onto every word he uttered while poking fun at life’s absurdities and…
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Paradise for hard workers, hucksters A few weeks ago, I wrote Americans are not revolutionaries by nature; let me add cynics to the list of what we’re not. The can-do spirit…
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Facing personal and economic scams Getting your email account hacked is tech equivalent to catching a cold: Despite taking precautions to protect yourself by washing your hands and installing antiviral programs…
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Free speech part of Occupy Movement If money is a form of political speech, is “free speech” an oxymoron? The 1st and 14th Amendments guarantee no federal or state law can…
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Occupy Movement relives the past Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. – Henry David Thoreau Americans are not revolutionaries by nature despite the name…
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What will be Obama’s 2012 strategy be? A debate within the Democratic Party is over Barack Obama’s re-election strategy: Should he run as a problem-solving pragmatist like Franklin Delano Roosevelt in…
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Unfettered capitalism is a bust Christians list pride as one of their seven deadly sins as if there is something debilitating about feeling good about one’s self. Taking pride in one’s…
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Greece a land to love, learn from I don’t know if I’m able to go on a vacation, the intent of which is to escape, do nothing substantial, to completely let…
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Happiness isn’t always about money To climb Mt. Olympus is breathtaking: the challenge of the trail, the vistas, and awareness of ancient Olympians having competed there. To run a marathon in…