This is normally my favorite time of year. Fall and football has been intertwined in my life, bringing back fond memories of the crisp mornings and sunny afternoons of game days, changing leaves and the beauty in all of the colors, hot cider and donuts, Halloween and just the innocent, wonderful time in my younger […]
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors — when you see that […]
I usually tend to draw back from folks who use the term “fait accompli.” But let’s face facts folks, this term could not apply any more perfectly to the upcoming, unquestioned name change of North Avenue to University Boulevard. This has to be the worst-kept, next-approved item on the city council’s agenda since they revved […]
What a great line from the movie “The Princess Bride.” And what a great word for the comment to be about: inconceivable. As a still somewhat free man in a somewhat free country, I’m perplexed we’ve arrived at this point. The “constitutional” arguments we’ve experienced over the years seem inconceivable to me, as I’m sure […]
Apparently I’m feeling the need to expand upon my previous thoughts on the ridiculous number of bills presented in the last session of the Colorado Legislature. If you recall, I wrote that in the last legislative session alone, more than 600 bills were introduced. That leads to a few logical questions: Are there really 600 […]
Isn’t that the point we’re getting to? Worse, I actually think we’re to the point where we’re no longer a nation of people doing what they feel is best. We’re now at the point where people just plain feel entitled to do whatever the heck they want. And if someone stops them, they’ll figure out […]
I come to this column after a little Memorial Day weekend dust up on Facebook. Yes, Facebook: the sad, but brutally honest, window into the combined psyche of what’s left of the average American’s brain. What I saw isn’t a pretty picture. Indeed, it should cause distress. The dust up was over a certain T-shirt […]
Please forgive me, but the pressure is too great to not publish this column. Full disclosure: I’m a New England Patriots fan, but like anything else in DeflateGate, that doesn’t matter. You see, the whole Wells Report uproar isn’t about Tom Brady, Bill Belichick or the Patriots. It comes down to one thing: Just how […]
As I venture into my 54th year of continuing education on the phrase “no good deed goes unpunished” comes the latest lesson from the great nanny state known as a “notice of decision.” I guess my last notice lesson from more than 10 years ago wasn’t fresh enough in my head to see this one […]
In our 24/7 news world, it now seems as though we also have a 365/52 political season. We went through our county, state and national elections in November and just got done with our city elections this month. Now contenders are already lining up to become the next president of the United States. It never […]