Summit Daily News, 14 May 2013 – Thank God that’s over. The state Legislature won’t meet again for another 239 days, so productive Coloradans can breathe a little easier; no further confiscations of our hard-earned gains for political purposes can be undertaken at present. How it happened doesn’t matter. Whether it was the country-club attitude of Colorado’s Republican establishment, who don’t realize that politics is a barroom brawl, not a polite conversation; the bottomless bucket of funding from gay activists; the clouds of cannabis smoke obscuring serious issues; the media’s mindless prattle about cowboy boots and quixotic quests to describe zygotes as persons; or a tragicomic combination of all of these, Colorado’s 2012 election results will produce poisonous fruit for years.