So stated Tina Turner in the 1985 blockbuster “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.” That line best summed up my overwhelmed feelings last Friday evening when the Northern Nevada Central Labor Council inducted the late Tribune journalist and my old friend Dennis Myers into the César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame. Using a hockey analogy, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar … [Read more...]
Health care bandidos and flaming ammotextuals
Last week, this newspaper performed a true public service with the front page story entitled “Renown Health is a powerhouse in Northern Nevada. Is that a problem?” The answer of course is not only yes, but hell yes! Was the article comprehensive and hard-hitting? Alas, no. Written by one of my old friend Jon Ralston’s journalists, Tabitha Mueller of the Nevada … [Read more...]
Earthquakes and 2×4’s
This week, the PBS News Hour reported on the again increasing rate of child poverty in the biggest, fattest, most badass country the world has ever known. Child poverty dropped to record lows, as did the disparity between racial groups, thanks to Biden’s 2021 legislation. Like many good things, it’s been allowed to die. Children and families will die as a result. The … [Read more...]
Rape means never having to say you’re sorry.
Such is the attitude of American malehood’s favorite band, T-Rump and the Supremes. It’s hard to choose the most ludicrously lewd among the too live crew of all those ammotextuals. You know them, the true believers who rule that anything non-existent in 1789 is unconstitutional. Thus presages the demise of Social Security, Medicare and U.S. Air Force. MAGA moonhowlers are … [Read more...]
Be careful what you wish for
“The world is in an uproar. The danger zone is everywhere.”— Ray Charles 1961 With McConnell and Czar T-Rump’s madcap judges afflicting and infecting the land, moonhowler corporate America is pulling out all the stops to take advantage while they can. As usual, the prime target is people’s paychecks. One Confederate blackrobe in Texas just stepped back from the razor … [Read more...]
Jinxed Jacobs Juice Job Joylessly Junked
The Reno City Council got religion last week when some sainted soul scuttled (or at least postponed) the assassination attempt against Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The brahmins of city hall were ready to give carpetbagger Jacobs Entertainment a chunk of city land for purposes unknown. Rev. Dr. Debra A. Whitlock-Lax, Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Sparks, … [Read more...]
Blacklash in Trumpsylvania West
The New Messiah warned us: After the election, unnamed blackguards will rename Pennsylvania. To what? Trumpsylvania, of course, on the day His Wonderfulness returns as third-term presidential dictator for life. Viruses spread. A gentleman named Jeff Jacobs has vacuumed up much of Reno’s West 4th Street, now pockmarked with vacant lots where once stood old motels housing … [Read more...]
Just win, baby
“The only crime is getting caught.” Such were the 1980s ethics of the now-myopically lionized Reagan administration. King Ronald the Vague would have gone to prison over the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages affair save for one guy: his longtime fixer Edwin Meese. Ronnie appointed Attorney General Meese to investigate his own boss. (Sound familiar?) Meese kept no notes … [Read more...]