When there’s a fight, liberals cut and runTravus T. Hipp (1937- 2012) My Tribune colleague often said that in his hall of fame radio career and many times, he proved correct. I’ve lately seen a rash of obituaries for liberal democracy. A few examples: The egalitarian era from President Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson was a one-time aberration. Reversing Roe v. Wade … [Read more...]
Eagles, chickens & Treasongate turkeys
Media is the plural of mediocreJimmy Breslin To paraphrase Charles Barkley, you know the world is going to hell when FOX News deserves praise for (ZOUNDS!) carrying the congressional Treasongate hearings while PBS airs old news shows or kiddie cartoons. That’s what happened in this region last Thursday and Monday and will again today. Public Broadcasting System KNPB … [Read more...]
Stealing from starving babies
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.Matthew Arnold 1851 About 120 years later, cartoonist Walt Kelly’s Pogo the Possum said pretty much the same thing, albeit with less elegance: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Nazi General Hermann Goering, who commanded military divisions, … [Read more...]
The awful truth for the rudely scrude
Sorry, kids. We are rudely screwed once again. This edition of the Crudely and Rudely Scrude News comes from no less than Gomorrah South. Bottom line: When the biggest, baddest union in the state can’t get something done by southern Nevada governments, MAYDAY! That’s just what’s happened to mighty Culinary Union Local 226 and its 60,000+ Nevada members, some of whom even … [Read more...]
Ripoffs, rake-offs, rape & pillage
Surprise. The major issue at the May 5 Reno mayoral debate was not downtown beautification. KOLO TV-8 reported that the barnburners at ThisIsReno.com’s event were “price gouging and rent caps.” Surprise, surprise. I don’t know if it means anything, but I’ve never had so many profile views on my oft-neglected LinkedIn. com page as this month. Might rent control (May 4) and … [Read more...]
The abortion solution
“Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.” — “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” 1989 I thought I settled all of this 33 years ago, dammit. Here’s the text of the January 27, 1989, Barbwire entitled “An Elegant Solution to Abortion.” The abortion quandary revolves around the classic question of cake: how to have it and eat … [Read more...]
Poisoning pigeons in the park
“All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon when we’re poisoning pigeons in the park.” — Tom Lehrer 1959 I’ve warned you many times and I admonish you again: Don’t let your kids play on the plastic turf at Sparks’ Golden Eagle Park. According to last week’s Tribune, the Sparks City Council spent $64,000 “to purchase SMG SportChamp artificial turf maintenance … [Read more...]
War in moderation?
“War: What is it good for?” soulfully sang Edwin Starr back in the Vietnam era. “Absolutely nothing,” he dissed. Alas and alack, the facts are otherwise. Perhaps the proper approach is the old admonition “all things in moderation.” The digital age was spawned by World War2 when computers were invented to do quick calculations for aiming artillery barrages. The … [Read more...]