I was told once that I strikingly resembled a Walrus. Not the marine mammal. Not the leader of the Beatles. I was, said an acquaintance, the spitting image of pro golfer Craig Stadler — known in his sport as the Walrus. I blinked and protested. Stadler is squat and chubby. Except for…
The first Thanksgiving celebrated survival and agrarian guile. With the help of charitable natives, the pale-skinned aliens were able to exhale and rejoice, having made a life on and with foreign soil. So it is with my family this past year. We did much the same, survival-wise on alien land, even…
My waning sense of incredulousness was gnawing on a TV commercial for a brand of artificial hip — you don’t just get those off the rack, so “ask your doctor” — when the news guy came on and told us about Black Friday. The story: Many will shop. All…
Snow blessed Colorado’s Front Range last week, roughly a month later than normal. This was not a surprise in what is shaking down as the warmest year on record. Even less surprising is the forecast: dry — not just in precipitation, but in any hope of Congress addressing the No. 1 issue facing…
Marva Beck told a reporter that her first priority as a new state representative is a tougher voter identification law. Really? Not, say, to help Texas schools address ever-accumulating and costly state mandates? Not to better serve the mentally ill? Not to dig the state out of its Texas-sized…
This is for those in the “not a lick of difference” camp. Yes, you folks in the squishy, independent center, and you folks of the so easily disgusted left. This is also to you relatively progressive candidates who campaigned as if — yes, ’twas not a lick of difference. Yeah, boy, there’s a difference, and…