I know what many want at this moment: to denounce him, to impeach him, to send him back to where he came from — a career of eluding debtors. Sorry, but this time I’m going to thank Donald Trump. Were it not for his unconscionable racist screed,…
DetailsDid you hear why Peyton Manning chose not to be color commentator for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football”? Because it wouldn’t be right. He declined, reports Yahoo Sports, because his commentary would be compromised should his brother Eli be on the field. So, too, Peyton would feel torn…
Details(Readers: Though our president is inerrant — just ask him — the rest of us make mistakes. This is a corrected, reposted version — JPY) Hear the distant rumble. Ram the ramparts. Hustle the muskets to the nearest landing strip. The sound you…
DetailsHear the distant rumble. Ram the ramparts. Hustle the muskets to the nearest landing strip. The sound you hear is not a summer storm but the rolling plunder of Donald Trump seeking further employment by us. Flanked by tanks, escorted by bomberooks — with his presidential bullhorn…
DetailsIt’s a race against time, and against diversity. For Republicans that foe was illustrated last week on stage in Miami — brimming with Democrats running for president. It featured candidates of varied colors, fiery non-submissive women, a gay mayor. It represented something for which today’s Republican Party…
DetailsDenver was awash in rainbows. Thousands had gathered for the annual Pride Fest, celebrating LBGTQ lives and advocating liberties. Jared Polis, the nation’s first openly gay governor, was grand marshal. Among the throng: several Democrats running to take Republican incumbent Cory Gardner’s U.S. Senate seat. Not among the…
DetailsEver since Donald Trump winged into Colorado to speak to the 2019 class of the Air Force Academy, I’ve tried to put myself in the well-shone shoes of those cadets. The man who spoke at their commissioning literally has their lives in his hands. I wonder about those…
DetailsIt’s dark wood and cost $500, a figure that made my wife and I me wince. Then we smiled. The young couple’s new dining room table showed they had graduated past second-hand stores — and that their relationship is in its own stages of matriculation. For a…
DetailsIt wasn’t “meddling.” It wasn’t “interference.” It was “an attack” on our democracy: Robert Mueller. It wasn’t one “400-pound guy” on a couch: Donald Trump. It wasn’t “a couple of Facebook ads”: Jared Kushner. It was a systematic operation by a foreign government that helped Trump become our…
DetailsNPR still got the car. The donation to public radio was the wish of a son who had driven the ’98 Mazda, its red paint peeling, until its dying moments. I was in favor, since public broadcasting needs our support in the face of Republican exercises in…
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