My 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 wasting her time -- and that of all her classmates -- for the past two…
The 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 the few things conservatives seem able to agree on these days is that people -- ideally conservatives -- should be having more babies…
I received an email from the #GunAppreciationDay people today. I figured I’d annotate it. My comments follow the **.
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Gun Appreciation Day is January 19
** I’m looking forward to other days on which to appreciate material goods. When is toaster…
The #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 boilerplate. I bought insoles for my daughter’s skates this morning. I own them, technically.…
A 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 climate change that wasn't being said.
I used to cover the topic at the Daily Camera, and still follow it…