2018

The Democratic Party is in search of its soul. From FDR through LBJ, its message was economic-oriented, focusing primarily on workers’ rights and safety-net programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—along with a…

But what I see now, where I have a president who acknowledges the racism on the other side is okay, who refers to the homeland that my family came from as…

Hi, I’m Waldo Jones, Richie Rich’s cousin, and I gotta tell you, I’m loving it. More money atop more in my hands. Tax cuts. More talk about a flat income tax.…

The footprint I-70 occupies in the Clear Creek Valley is vastly disproportionate to the amount it takes in any other county, from Mesa to Kit Carson. As it is, Clear Creek…

There’s head-scratching irony to the he-man machoism pervading American culture. It’s become a rite of passage to prove one’s toughness for the sole purpose of proving one’s toughness. It’s the reason…

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous…

Satire is art, serious and complex. As it pokes fun at powerful people, institutions, and movements, it serves as commentary as important and powerful, when done well, as the best op-eds.…

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. – H.L. Mencken Okay, fellow libs, get a grip and get out of your funk. Yes, I…

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest? – Henry II By quoting Henry during his riveting testimony about Donald Trump attempting to influence the FBI investigation of his friend,…

Once again, a too-common modern America tale. Something deranged Americans have in common with global terrorists: Violence to the point of death as the way to address one’s anger. One wonders…

Those pesky reporters. Delving, digging, and snooping. Asking embarrassingly tough questions politicos spend time and exert considerable energy avoiding. What’s a Trump-fearing/loving, all-guy politician to do? Why, body slam the reporter,…

Touring the Argo Mine during its Grand Reopening, having been closed to the public since 1943, was a telling experience. There, of course, are the historicity of the event, the excitement…

Just when all seems dire, along comes an uplifting story of someone who could have easily descended into the all-too-common, woe-is-me victimization pit but did not. In the fifth grade, Gavin…

Actually Jim, if you were a “decent person,” you would shut your fat trap about partisan politics and go care for your kid, who just nearly died, you elitist creep. –…

As the vote to deprive millions access to health care reached its apex, a group of congressional Democrats began taunting their Republican colleagues by chanting “hey, hey, good-bye,” meaning “See you…