Whatsoever you do to these, the least of my brethren, you do also to me.Yeshua of Nazareth, Galilee Galilee Barbwire predixions usually come true. I herewith predict that you will be hearing more and more about the following for many, many years to come. Read on. SUE THE BASTARDS. The Regional Transportation Commission bus system has scheduled major cutbacks starting … [Read more...]
Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad
Whatsoever you do to these, the least of my brethren, you do also to me.Yeshua of Nazareth, Galilee TRUE OR FALSE: Jesus of Nazareth had blue eyes and blonde hair.Buddha is a Christian saint.Christianity existed more than 600 years before Jesus. If you missed all three, you really need to read on. “Religions all lead to the same place,” ventured my mom many decades … [Read more...]
Death Panels for Christmas
“Every sperm is sacred.” - Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” (1983) Madcap former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did serious damage to Obamacare when she called its end-of-life counseling provision “death panels.” They would have been nonesuch and irony of ironies, the man who made her rich and famous, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., cast the deciding vote to save Obamacare years … [Read more...]
You will remember the Ides of December
I met the eminent law professor and attorney outside of a major Nevada gambling expo in Reno a couple of decades back. A who’s who of the casino elite attended but not him. He had been declared persona non grata by the convention because he dared say things they didn’t like. My kinda guy. In his new blog, he made the above comment about New York acting outside the law to … [Read more...]
The Cure for What Ails Us, Part IV
In 2010, 2016 and last year, I presented the top 10 cures for what ails us. How are we doing? Not too damned good at all. Maybe I’m demonstrably crazy for beating the same drum while banging my same head against the same wall. So sue me. Learned professionals far wiser than me always advise that before healing can begin, the victim needs to recognize the problem, name the … [Read more...]
I want my $10,000.00, dammit!
MUCHAS GRACIAS, TEJANOS! Texas has shown us the way to prevent pleasure-seeking America from continuing to commit suicide. Apparently in the age of Czar Donaldov, state legislatures, especially those that ignore the Civil War and its congressional antecedents, can do any damned thing they want. So why should Mississippi West Nevada sit on the sidelines? Let’s ante into the … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgibleting: Grueling gruel from the cruel
Apparently, only God herself can come to the aid of local bus passengers and workers. I am thus sending this column to every religious organization in the area. Please dispatch prayers/emanations/ vibrations/meditations for picketing workers at bus garage central across from Wooster High and Reno’s E. 4th Street bus station. Four of six were hit with BB gun rounds from a red … [Read more...]
Ghosts of Christmas past bite us on the ass
Sometimes the Barbwire writes itself and reduces your humble scribe to the role of stenographer. Herewith examples of self-satirical moral obtuseness. JUNGLE JIM’S GENDER GAP. I got an e-mail on Nov. 8 from (I’m not making this up) “Assemblywoman Jim Wheeler,” R-Douglas County, Nevada’s most high profile if not most intelligent freedom loving racist. (“I’d vote for slavery … [Read more...]