Life is expensive. Humans consume considerable amounts of resources daily (especially North Americans). Some of this consumption is necessary for survival, but most is excess, which ultimately ends up in our landfills and junkyards. Much of what we consume and waste can be given a monetary value, but the cost of extracting these materials cannot […]
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(I never played even high school baseball, let alone professionally. Could I hit a 100 mph fastball? An 87 mph slider? Even a major league change-up? It is to laugh. Most professional athletes agree that hitting major league pitching is the hardest thing to do in sports. The only right I have to criticize major
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We often claim that our way of life is a symbol of decency. We tell ourselves our intentions are honorable. We assume our society has been cultivated by a comparatively humane system that deserves trust. And we quietly worry that we don’t have the time, energy, or power to think things through a little more
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Some Bronco fans are freaking out over the 2021 draft because Denver didn’t draft a quarterback. It doesn’t help when sportswriters like Woody Paige give Denver an F for the draft as a result. Paige reminds me of my late father-in-law, who, in his dementia, would ask me why Denver wasn’t running an interception play
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I walked into a Korean grocery store in Aptos to buy a beach towel. A leathery skinned man, probably in his 50s, was asking the woman behind the counter something about the sandwiches in the cooler. He wore a tight yellow bathing suit nestled between his spindly legs and bloated stomach, and he had a
Danny Moore is one of twelve members of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Committee. The other eleven members – Four Democrats, four Independents, and the three other Republicans – recently voted to remove Moore from his role as Committee Chair after some of his Facebook posts had been revealed by the Colorado Springs Gazette and other
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