As you are driving along the Diagonal, say a prayer for the hundreds of prairie dogs that were entombed in the median north of the intersection of Jay Road and Colo. 119. I don't know whose decision it was plow over that section of the median without bothering to relocate the animals living there (the state of Colorado, Boulder County, city of Boulder or Jalisco International), but that wanton waste of life saddens me.

Without inviting a contentious discussion about the co-habitation of humans and wildlife (or the value of a new parking lot), a little forethought there would have gone a long way. I mean, slow suffocation is such a lousy way to die.