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So, out of the goodness of his heart, the Boulder city attorney is not going to pursue criminal charges against Seth Brigham, whose freespeech-in-boxer-shorts stunt earned him an arrest and a police escort out of a recent City Council meeting...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “Everything is complicated,” wrote poet Wallace Stevens. “If that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.” I hope you will choose his wisdom to serve as your guiding light in the coming weeks. It is high time, in my ...

The issue of public nudity sure has Deputy Mayor Ken Wilson’s panties in a twist. He’s so concerned about the evolution of the proposed public nudity ordinance — the one intended to punish naked pumpkin runners and nude bike riders without requiring them to register ...

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We are a bit perplexed by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s recent medical marijuana raids. Wasn’t there some sort of federal edict passed down last fall telling the DEA to leave dispensaries and caregivers alone in states with medical marijuana laws, as long as ...

On the heels of the whites-only basketball team idea and the pastor who refuses to marry mixed-race couples, here’s another gem from the South: A proposed high-school curriculum that would eliminate U.S. history prior to 1877...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “Hate leaves ugly scars,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin, but “love leaves beautiful ones.” If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, Aries, you’re scheduled to receive at least one of the beautiful kind of scars in the coming months...

Tom Tancredo is at it again...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.” So said the ancient Greek historian Polybius, and now I’m conveying the message to you. I hope it will serve as a spur in the ...

The results of The 2010 Comprehensive Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll of Self- Identified Republicans are in, and it’s just as we feared. A majority of Republicans are insane. The poll, conducted by Research 2000, asked a series of questions of more than 2,000 folks who...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Shakespeare got modest respect while he was alive, but his reputation as a brilliant bard didn’t gel right away. It wasn’t until almost 50 years after he died that anyone thought his life and work were notable enough to write about. By then, ...

Wow, we knew that Republican CU Regent Tom Lucero was one of the most powerful members of the Republican-dominated Board of Regents, but we didn’t know he was single-handedly responsible for the dismissal of former CU Professor Ward Churchill...