By George Sibley I should probably be trying to write something wonky about American politics, but instead I’m writing this article from the near-wilds on the sunny side of Grand Mesa, at a rendezvous of an organization formerly known as the Crested Butte Hotshots. The Hotshots were a forest-fire crew based in Crested Butte who fought dozens of fires all over the West from 1971 to 1978. Like most fire crews, the Crested Butte Hotshots organized locally, with some Forest Service training on building firelines and other techniques for trying to control and contain big fires with little or no ...