The world is in an uproar. The danger zone is everywhere. Ray Charles I had already become depressed before I left my house to run some errands last week. I ventured forth with little hope of improvement. I was wrong. Love was all around me. Southbound on Keystone, I had stopped at a red light at the I-80 underpass when I beheld a group of people around a body on the … [Read more...]
Bill Harrah’s Cookie Cutter Crumbles
Bill Harrah thought he’d live forever. Northern Nevada would have been better had he done so. His toys, the world’s largest auto collection, filled several huge warehouses next to the Sparks rail yards. Well over a thousand vehicles spanning a century of America’s expansion were housed there in running condition, including two of the most expensive cars in the world, … [Read more...]
Going to Confession with Father Barbwire
I spent much of MLK weekend, including (heresy!) the entire third quarter of the 49er-Packers game, posting notices of a three-page section of The New York Times commentary section. Author Michelle Alexander has just released the 10th anniversary edition of her seminal bestseller, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness.” It spent almost 250 weeks … [Read more...]
National Welfare, Corporate Welfare and MLK
WEREWOLVES R US. I agree with Republican moonhowlers in only two areas, corporate welfare and the death penalty. I have long advocated capital punishment for corporations proved to have knowingly killed people. Purdue Pharma, America’s drug cartel, is one. Boeing is another. Once found guilty, a corporation (legally a person entitled to constitutional rights under the … [Read more...]
The Only Way to Stop Killing is to Stop Killing
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls picked them every one. When will they every learn, when will they ever learn? Where have all the young girls gone? Gone to young men, every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? NEWS ITEM: Many young men have … [Read more...]
Barbano Sells Out to White Republicans
Everybody knows I’m a Bernie man but that’s never stopped me from promulgating my wisdom to other worthy candidates. See “Billionaire Tom Steyer Owes Me $5.” (Barbwire 11-27-2019) I work cheap for D’s but none others. Now, I’m offering my services to the first Republican willing to pay my exorbitant consulting fee -- largely because no self-respecting Democrat would become … [Read more...]
The Sermon on Mount Barbwire
They sold me a dream of Christmas They sold me a Silent Night They told me a fairy story Till I believed in the Israelite I believed in Father Christmas I looked to the sky with excited eyes Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn And I saw him and through his disguise Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger wrote a short story in college. One day, the moving neon … [Read more...]
Typhoid Mary infects Sparks Addams Family
If you don’t know who Typhoid Mary was (see below), you need to read this column as a matter of life and death. The Nevada Legislative Interim Committee on Health Care met last week, apparently to complete the unraveling of the republic, one microbe at a time. Fortunately, dear auld Nevada is blessed with intrepid paladins who implore us to “Protect Religious Liberty … [Read more...]