TEDx – Inspiration by numbers

"\"TweetShareShareA year ago today, I had just practiced my TEDxMileHigh talk to an all-but empty Ellie Caulkins Opera House the day before the big show. There was a producer in the front row, typing away on her laptop, and, in the far reaches of...

Plantar fasciitis? A few ideas.

"\"TweetShareShareAmid my sixth and most foolish soccer career at age 44 (indoor, over-30 coed, more challenging than it sounds), I’ve pounded my feet into plantar fasciitis twice now, joining Antonio Gates, Ty Lawson and untold legions of...

Aurora shooting prosecutor screws up

"\"TweetShareShareArapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler announced this morning that he’s pursuing the death penalty for alleged (I use this word loosely) Aurora theater mass murderer James Holmes. Holmes’s attorneys had...

Population argument bombs

"\"TweetShareShareThe Denver Post did a sort of quasi book-review\\\/reax piece today to Weekly Standard writer Jonathan Last’s What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster. Cute, but no panacea...

USMNT – No excuse for bad D

"\"TweetShareShareI watched a bit of the U.S.-Honduras soccer game of Wednesday night — the first of several World Cup qualifiers in the “hexagonal round” (how about “round of six,” for clarity’s sake, FIFA?)....

Gun Appreciation Day, annotated

"\"TweetShareShareI received an email from the #GunAppreciationDay people today. I figured I\\u2019d annotate it. My comments follow the **. Help us fund advertsing and spread the word far and wide… On Drudge, FOX News and Facebook Gun...

Proud gun owner

"\"TweetShareShareThe #NRA, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre of children and elementary school teachers and staff, has its friends out in full force. One thing I\\u2019ve heard in several media interviews now is \\u201cproud gun...

Global warming, empty bellies

"\"TweetShareShareA few months ago, Micah Williams, TEDxMileHigh’s newest (and only full-time) employee, asked if I might write a blog post about climate change. I said “sure,” and then I thought about what I could say about...

Monster in the drink

"\"TweetShareShareAs I write this, SpaceX’s Dragon space capsule is on a boat, having splashed down 250 miles off the California coast on Sunday. Monsters loom off both coasts, then: Frankenstorm to the east, Dragon to the west. The Dragon...

Richard Mourdock and God’s intent

"TweetShareShareIndiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock lit up the media\u00a0yesterday\u00a0with the following comment: The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a lon...