Quotes
To learn true humility get married. All the time you were courting you put your best foot forward. You can,t do that after years of living together. You burp, fart, and when you have a cold you get a snotty nose, you don't pick up your dirty clothes...and you are told about it, ~G. Eldon Smith
Women's History Month
Jean Dubofsky earned an undergraduate degree from Stanford and a law degree from Harvard. She spent two years as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Walter Mondale. After two years she left Washington to become an attorney for Colorado Rural Legal Services in 1969.
As director of law reform for Colorado Rural Legal Services, Dubofsky won a case in the Tenth Circuit that enforced the availability of free or low-cost hospital services for low-income people. In 1975, Dubofsky was appointed Deputy Attorney General for Colorado.
In 1979, she became the first woman and the youngest person to become a Colorado Supreme Court Justice. While on the bench she wrote several hundred opinions for the court, She will be probably be remembered for being the lead attorney in the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Colorado’s Amendment 2, which prevented gays and lesbians from obtaining redress for discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
American Civil Liberties Union Carle Whitehead Memorial Award for "exceptional commitment and dedication to civil liberties and the state of Colorado", 1993
Inducted to the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2008. She was nominated by The Colorado Women’s Bar Association and Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Mark Vasil
Colorado State Animal
Big Horn Ram
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
~ Jim Fowler
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. ~Gerald Durrell
Well, my son really loves wildlife. And every time he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. ~Thom Yorke
Daylight savings time, spring blizzard, changing from last week's blog to this week's new blog, all of this change is too unsettling for me to keep up. Besides I lost an hour of sleep. ~G. Eldon Smith
~ Jim Fowler
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. ~Gerald Durrell
Well, my son really loves wildlife. And every time he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. ~Thom Yorke
Daylight savings time, spring blizzard, changing from last week's blog to this week's new blog, all of this change is too unsettling for me to keep up. Besides I lost an hour of sleep. ~G. Eldon Smith