Sunday, August 26th, 2007
So says the headline of my article in the Boulder Daily Camera today. A scan of the print version is here. The first half of the article is pretty much the same as the one that appeared in the Denver Post a few weeks ago. The second ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
So says my letter to the editor in the Denver Post this past Monday:
"Universal" health care
Re: "Patient, take care of thyself," June 14 Pius Kamau column.
Surgeon Pius Kamau admirably explains that "each man and woman should be responsible for their own health." Yet, the "universal health care" he advocates as ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Indeed, I am on a roll. Two more letters just today:
1. Rocky Mountain News
Kudos to the Rocky Mountain News editorial board for explaining how “community rating” regulations on health insurance plans drive up premiums and discourage small companies from offering insurance (“Too quick off the mark,” April 10).
I ...
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Today my improv comedy class from Madcap Theater performed a couple of shows to demonstrate what we had learned in the six week "Level 1" class. As with the first performance, it went great. What is even more satisfying that what I've learned through the classes is the ...
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Today The Daily Camera published the following as a Guest Opinion (good choice of headline!) Here is one-line version, & here's a scan of the print version.
Government-run auto repair? Yes!
Modeled in health-care debacle, some could clean up
By Brian Schwartz
Sunday, February 11, 2007
"Government-run health care, that's the model for how to ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Submitted to their website:
As a former co-chair of the campus group OMF, a market-anarchist student group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I was quite angered to receive YAF posters in the mail of George W. Bush and Anne Coulter [click here at your own risk, cringe!] is admirable defenders ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
This week's Boulder Weekly published my letter to the editor about the book Who Really Cares and an article a columnist had written about it. Here's a link to the print version and the text of the letter:
Wayne's wasted chance
I was quite disappointed in Wayne Laugesen's recent article ("Jesusland," ...
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
As his Wikipedia entry states, he is cultural editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He was principally responsible for the publishing of the cartoons that initiated the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. The Boulder Objectivist Club sponsored his talk at the University of Colorado, and I was quite impressed by ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
Late Saturday morning I road my new snazzy bike around Boulder and observed a few notable items. (1) I leaving a store where a man was asking for directions. He'd left his car running with the door open just outside the store. Sure he'd be in ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
On Saturday I went to the credit union on the north-west corner of 55th and Arapahoe to deposit a couple of paychecks. Only the drive-in tellers were open, and I hadn't endorsed the checks, so I started to do so on a ledge near the tellers. Soon after ...
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