"Two students from the University of Colorado Boulder were arrested after they gave marijuana-laced brownies to their professor and unsuspecting classmates Friday."

It was "bring food to class" day. Perhaps they thought it was amusing , considering that "legalization" they have in Col...

"A federal court in Indiana has rejected atheists’ requests to preside at wedding ceremonies..."

"... saying only clergy or public officials are licensed to solemnize marriages." A lawsuit filed by the Indiana chapter of the Ce...

Are you vacationing in Aspendam?

Did you ever take a holiday in Amsterdam to get to the legal — legal ish — marijuana? Are vacations like that now within a car's drive ...

"He will bring happiness in a pipe/He'll ride away on his silver bike/And apart from that he'll be so kind/In consenting to blow your mind..."

"Fat Angel," by Donovan (who wrote it) or The Jefferson Airplane ( live , with oil-based light show) and even Orange Alabaster Mu...

"Monster wildfire rages in Colorado..."

Story... photos... video....

The artist Christo gets approval for his project wrapping the Arkansas River.

The L.A. Times reports: “Over The River” comprises eight huge, silvery fabric panels spanning 5.9 miles directly above the Arkansas River wh...

Colorado high country.

A photograph Meade brought home from his mountain biking trip last week.

The Leadville mural.

Meade points out that the artist included a nipple, and I zoom in to snap it: ADDED: Commenters request more [ba]zoom .

"The KINDEST Dispensary in the High Country."

A storefront in Leadville, Colorado. The high country.

"Sorry We're Closed!"

Something about that exclamation point makes me feel that they're not sorry at all. Enlarge to read: No Pets Shoes, Shirt Required Well...

At the Chocolate Chip Café...

... sit down and hang out. ADDED: I should have called this the Levitating Muffin Café. (Lem: "Is it me, or does the muffin appear to f...

We ♥ Leadville.

Leadville, Colorado, August 4th. We loved all the tiny houses: And the Western Hardware Building , built in 1881, and in the distance, the s...

Hit the road!

UPDATE: Home! We're not in Colorado. That picture is from August 4th. But we did go out for a 26-mile bike ride, in lovely weather — 60s...

In the White River National Forest...

... August 4, 2011.

4 Colorado photos.

From last week's trip... Driving I-70: Mountain flowers: Tree reflections: Columbine:

I realize GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck was nervous on "Meet the Press"...

... but, man, this should go down in the annals of misspeaking : MR. GREGORY:  [H]ow do you pay for [tax cuts]? MR. BUCK:  Well, the, the--w...

Gerald Ford re Bill Clinton: "He's sick — he's got an addiction. He needs treatment."

From "Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford": Ford's wife, Betty, who founde...

"Engineering marvel" or "colossal eyesore" or scariest tourist attraction in the United States?

The Grand Canyon Skywalk is supposed to help the finances of the Hualapai Indian Tribe, but even assuming lots of people want to walk on a ...

Supermax.

Described by Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph: "It is a closed-off world designed to isolate inmates from social and environmental stimuli, ...

Qutb's bad hair day.

Qutb in America (Via A&L Daily) : With the global rise of political Islamism, many pundits have recently begun paying closer attention ...