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Posts published by “Jeff Costello”

Casinos & The Real Colorado

Two things that have been legalized in Colorado but haven't yet in most states are (non-Indian) casinos and "recreational" marijuana.  If you think the two…

Boomer

A lot of younger people seem to be under the impression that baby boomers are the selfish “me” generation, who, after a brief flirtation with…

The Dow or The Tao

No stocks or bonds, no savings account, no credit cards. Essentially I am an economic non-person, living on the cheap. The upside of this is…

My Two Jobs

Unionville, Connecticut was the other side of the tracks - the sleazy, working-class end of Farmington, so disreputable it had to have a different name,…

F-Book

Rarely do I get personal emails any more, the medium is nearly obsolete already. And I naturally have given up on real letters, in the…

The New/Old Wild West

Okay, the grand experiment is over. Amazingly, a black man was elected president. It can't happen again until after 2050, the projected time when whites…

Freedom On Facebook

“Writer’s block” - A euphemism for having nothing to say. It happens. But I was thinking about a piece on Freedom and Liberty, a couple…

Gregg

It's been a long time since I first heard about underground missile silos in Colorado. It was the Cold War and we were ready, so…

Sausalito Houseboat War, 1971

A lot of valuable real estate was going to waste. That is the crux of the matter. Imagine if you can, a mile of waterfront property in the tourist mecca of Sausalito, Marin County, occupied by pirates, artists, fishermen, counterculture and other social ne'er-do-wells, living on all manner of floating objects with the permission and approval of the property owner.

Road Notes: San Francisco-Denver

Picnic on Donner Pass — No meat. Plaque I'd like to see at the Donner Summit: “They Bit off More Than They Could Chew” In…

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