We need to take a hard look at the 25th Amendment

“What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is,” former VP Dan Quayle once said.

Apparently, the intellectual lacuna that is modern Republican thought, in these heady days of one Trump’s bill, is largely limited to attacking (as described by Trump) the “scum” that was his predecessor, a decent man named Joe Biden, and cultish devotion to a divisive figure.

Biden’s health and age did cause some shortcomings, but the mental deterioration of the current “leader of the free world,” given his father’s demise from Alzheimer’s, deserves some attention. Biden can’t plunge us into recession, nuclear war, lawless policing, and so many other scary prospects — but Donny Dementia sure can.

Numerous writers, with more expertise in the area than I, are stating (finally on the record) that Donald is showing clear cognitive decline, including wandering off on irrelevancies during speeches, losing his temper quickly, insulting comments in answer to press questions, and being unable to recall what he said after a short time passes, to name a few.

I had to watch my own beloved mother sink into (cancer-caused) dementia before her death.

It is not pretty, but at least she did not have the ability to destroy our economy, constitution, society and even the world with the press of a button.

Not that I think JD Vance is a cuddly teddy bear, but I think we need to take a hard look at the 25th Amendment as if our well-being depended on it.

— Jim Drevescraft, Nederland

Why did CPW choose to reintroduce moose?

Regarding: a report of a man and his dogs attacked by a moose on private land. One dog euthanized due to injuries. Why are moose here?

Colorado Parks and Wildlife introduced moose in the late 1970s, allegedly to improve wildlife watching and hunting. Now, the public is warned to avoid the danger of willow thickets where the animals graze and raise their young. The stated intent to improve wildlife watching has become a warning to “watch out!”

Wildlife experts say one top concern is the destruction of wetland resources in Rocky Mountain National Park. There, the moose have joined the growing elk population in degrading natural resources and requiring costly wetlands restoration efforts. The elk overpopulation has also caused taxpayer-funded Rabbit Mountain Open Space to be closed to the public yearly so hunters can kill excess elk. Now, no surprise, big game managers stress the increasing need for more hunting to control the moose population.

Shouldn’t these supposed wildlife experts have anticipated the same moose problems as the problems presented by the elk population?

CPW client/hunters thrill to kill a variety of different animal species. A resident moose tag is $375. A non-resident tag is a whopping $2,758. That’s cash in CPW’s coffers.

Wasn’t that the real plan from the beginning?

— Anita Moss, Boulder

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