TweetShareShareMy daughter Lily is a fourth grader at Lowry Elementary School, a Denver Public School. I like the school a lot, her teachers, the fact that its students span a wide range or race and economic backgrounds. But they’ve been...
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 One of...
TweetShareShareI’m a fan of MedPage today, but these folks are seriously under the copy-cranking gun and often publish summaries of studies absent of perspective. Today’s story, “After-School Soccer Little Help in Obesity...
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?). The...
TweetShareShareI received an email from the #GunAppreciationDay people today. I figured I’d annotate it. My comments follow the **. Help us fund advertsing and spread the word far and wide… On Drudge, FOX News and Facebook Gun Appreciation...
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’ve heard in several media interviews now is “proud gun owner.” This is NRA...
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...
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...
TweetShareShareIndiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock lit up the media yesterday with 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 long time...
TweetShareShareWhen things go wrong, it’s always nice to be able to blame someone else. Thanks to Richard Johnson, MD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, we can blame our extra pounds on a 20-pound primate that lived about 15...
TweetShareShareI do a lot of writing for University of Colorado Hospital. They received 23 of the 70 people wounded in the Aurora theater shootings starting at 1:06 a.m. on Friday, July 20. The department and the hospital at large were packed to...
TweetShareShareThe alleged, though really no-longer alleged, Aurora theater shooter’s apartment building was a busy place today, hours after James Holmes shot 71 people, killing 12 as of this posting. Another five are in critical condition...
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