While many observed in horror as a mothballed high-country gold mine shared an egg-yolk yellow stream of poison with three states via the Animas River (and the San Juan River 100 miles downstream), I thought of another stream — a river of air. Years ago I flew with a…
In the hyperbolic chariot race waged by Republican presidential candidates, we can report the first breastplated contestant to have thrown a spoke. That would be the supposed moral standard-bearer of the field (of mankind?), the estimably sainted Ben Carson. Carson can talk the talk of the GOP base, like saying the Affordable Care Act is…
Donald Trump is a misogynist. If not, he’s determined to win the title. This guy is gunning for the finals of American Chauvinist Ninja Warrior. The last obstacle will melt before him and his bare chest, and that obstacle will be a “she.” On the morning after his coming-out debate performance, Trump didn’t just double-down…
One would say that the good outweighed the bad for Ted Cruz last week, and the bad was horrid. In the Senate, he was openly scorned by fellow Republicans for his routine and rash showboating. That included calling Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar. Cruz. blazing a culinary trail this week with "machine-gun bacon," was…