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…
Posts published by “Jeff Costello”
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
As a guy who made a life (more or less) of playing guitar in various contexts including working bands, I still tend to spontaneously think…
“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…
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…
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.
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…