| Oct 16, 2013 | Environment / HealthAnd now, Dr. Hightower offers this advice for improving your mental health: Don’t fume about the GOP’s lunatic effort to kill health care reform — just laugh at their farcical show. Take Sen. Ted Cruz’s 21-hour blabathon, in which he said he would...
| Oct 15, 2013 | Environment / HealthWhacking yourself on the head with a ball-peen hammer would be stupid. Doing it again and again? That’s insane. Welcome to your House of Representatives, presently led by a pack of tea-partying Republicans. They loathe the Affordable Care Act so much that they...
| Oct 9, 2013 | Environment / HealthAmerica’s best idea is in trouble, and I don’t mean our national parks. Yes, our parks are closed, which is a crushing disappointment for millions of would-be visitors and an economic gut-punch for neighboring communities — to the tune of $76 million...
| Sep 25, 2013 | Environment / HealthAs the people of Colorado are presently learning, it’s horrendous enough to suffer the ravages of a natural disaster, but it’s doubly horrific to then be faced with a more devastating unnatural disaster. First came the epic floods that recently ripped...
| Sep 18, 2013 | Environment / HealthBoth the old and new media agree on is this: If you need a story that’s guaranteed to be popular, go with animals. Cute kittens, puppies, porpoises, penguins, and polar bears are all a good bet. Now, corporate shills are tapping this animal ploy to push some of...
| Sep 11, 2013 | Environment / HealthEnvironmental groups tend to be a bit grim-faced. That’s understandable since they’re constantly confronting industrial uglies that range somewhere between awful and apocalyptic. So it’s a treat when one of them turns impishly playful, as a group of...