Did we do something when we should not have? Did we do nothing when we should have? Anyway you slice it, this world is the result of its dominant species, at once both awesome and awful. Immersing myself in media the past few days, I generated enough notes for three or four columns. Love, hate, reason, superstition -- all well-represented. Then I saw the photo of … [Read more...]
May Day Labor Day: Start Packing
Ah, ‘tis Spring when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of creative seduction, satyristic dancing, nubile wenches, fertile frolicking -- and riots in the streets. Forgotten in the mayhem of these times is the painfully obvious: The ayatollah and Putin have won this round, having created worldwide chaos, advancing their dreams of conquest. Chaos, the best friend of … [Read more...]
Raw bits, base hits, old bits and obits
GREATEST HITS. Art Schallock turns 100 on April 25. In addition to joining the fastest-growing demographic in America, he is the oldest living major league baseball player. In recent years, I’ve been starved for baseball news here in the High Desert Outback of the American Dream. Apparently the San Francisco Giants are no longer relevant given the expensive transplantation … [Read more...]
Watering the money trees
Time to celebrate our recently announced water rate increases. Break out the best gray water champagne! I tried to obtain information from the Nevada Public Utilities Commission about the 2001 sale of the local water system by NVEnergy’s predecessor, Sierra Pacific Power. I received everything but what I asked for. When I pushed to get the price us peons paid, I was … [Read more...]
Ain’t we a pair?
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...]