This afternoon, our local TV news magazine presented statistics on what the unvaccinated cost Colorado. It’s well over $100 million per year. …

One of the heroes was not gay. The army vet was with his wife, daughter and daughter’s boyfriend watching the drag show. As the shots began, the daughter and her boyfriend were dancing. She would break her knee attempting to get away. The boyfriend would be one of the dead…

Once again, foreign powers are attempting to influence our elections. Given that Republicans are in general more friendly to oil producers, read Saudi Arabia and Russia, OPEC+ decided to meddle in our elections by cutting oil production a month prior to our midterm elections. Cutting production should raise prices and…

Ever hear of light cigarettes? Back when I was young and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the tobacco industry saw that people were beginning to realize that their product caused cancer. So in an effort to retain customers, they came out with the “light” cigarette. Although they never claimed it, the…

Last night I published my first work of fiction on Medium, The Emergency Room Lawyer (https://medium.com/@stan20881-56127/the-emergency-room-lawyer-8732b4501b74). Thanks to those of you who took the time to read it and even more to those who gave me feedback. It is much appreciated. This story came to me when the draft ruling…

So there it is. The Supreme Court with its Republican supermajority holds that a half-century of precedent was wrong. You got what you wanted, Religious Right. Go revel. You have protected the Rights of the Unborn. You fucking hypocrites. What you have protected is the right of the patriarchy to…

A friend of mine is a retired police officer. Once he asked a journalist why the press never reported stories about the police doing good things, saving lives, stopping crime. The journalist replied, you read stories about plane crashes, right? My friend agreed. …

Kyle Rittenhouse, who journeyed to Kenosha, Wisconsin apparently intending to help protect others’ businesses, was found innocent of all charges against him. He shot and killed two people and wounded another, claiming he did it because he felt threatened. Whether Rittenhouse went with the intention of finding trouble or was…

Our Founding Fathers did great deeds and thought noble thoughts. They also owned slaves. It is time to acknowledge both. This summer I visited my parents in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Yes, the Muhlenberg County of the John Prine song, I did most of my growing up there, went to school…