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Is this the country our founders intended? | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Original sources!” American History professor T.K. Barton exhorted us, a cigarette always dangling from his mouth as he lectured. We Colorado College students were held captive more by the question of when the lengthening stalk of ashes might fall to the floor than by the…
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Vince Bzdek: This is a moment to celebrate Western orneriness
On Thursday, the New York Times ran a headline that said, “Colorado’s got a gay governor. Who cares?” The writer’s point was that Jared Polis’ sexual orientation was a nonfactor in the governor’s campaign and election, accepted in our state as a matter of unremarkable course. That Polis is gay was “interestingly uninteresting to voters,”…