Okay, now, these are some things that have really been bugging me over the past couple of weeks, but I’ve restrained myself, waiting for a moment of calm. You guys are, by the way, much nicer and more tolerant than those moderators over at The Guardian, who took issue with my lurid and thinly veiled [...]
Last July we posted a short piece about the guy who had used a home computer and a 3-D printer to make an AR15 rifle. Or at least most of one – the big deal is the barrel and chamber which need to withstand the enormous pressures (and heat) involved in firing modern cartridges. As [...]
The hayseeds on the high plateau a couple of hours north of here are getting uppity. Moffatt County is in the absolute NW corner of Colorado, with Wyoming on its northern border and Utah on the west. It’s the second biggest County in Colorado (and a touch more than half the size of Wales, to [...]
Something hopeful on a Sunday morning. You’ll know that New Zealand just passed a statute legalizing same-sex marriage. What you may not know, and I sure didn’t until this very minute, was what that legislative process looked and sounded like. Now I do know. The public gallery and MP’s on the floor burst into song [...]
Cardinal Roger Mahony, aka head of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Child Rape, is having a tough time loving his enemies now that they’ve discovered he’s just another feculent stain on humanity and refuse to shut up about it. I mean, it’s not as if he had any way of knowing, way back [...]
Or perhaps this post should be called “ready, fire, aim redux.” Anyway, the big story around these parts is that LA cops have been taking panicky pot shots at women delivering newspapers in the early AM hours. Why? you ask. Oh, you know, the usual: some madman (formerly an LA cop) decided to go on [...]
[I]n a world where the architects of the financial crisis dine regularly at the White House, it’s ridiculous to think Aaron Swartz was a felon. But of course not everyone agrees with this assessment of Lawrence Lessig. The Obama DOJ pursued Aaron Swartz with more zeal than it went after any of the banks, including HSBC, [...]
SCOTUS has agreed to hear arguments for two same-sex marriage cases in March. On March 26, it has agreed to hear arguments as to whether the U.S. Constitution bars California from limiting marriage to unions of one man and one woman. They will also consider whether those defending Proposition 8 have the standing necessary to [...]
Gun sales here in Colorado are totally through the roof. Normally it’s possible to purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer by waiting only a few minutes for the background check — a computer search of records in the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) database — to clear, then you pay your money and walk [...]