GOP’s laughable ‘race-blind’ claim

            In biology, surface distinctions among human beings barely count.             Regardless of skin color, we all share 99.9 percent of our genetic code with one another.             Biologically, race is an artifice, a distinction without a distinction.             Try telling that, however, to the Republican Party’s computers.             They…

The flag of the whiny anti-masker

            Foes of masks, the Denver Post reported, “waved American flags, cheered and whistled” at the marathon school board meeting. Then a newly reconstituted, newly partisan board sided with them.             Left out of the discussion: administrators charged with keeping children, teachers and staff safe.             It had been impressive…