We live in a time of anger, division and despair. People feel powerless. As always, answers arise from organizing toward common goals. You can also be effective one-to-one. Recently in the checkout line at SaveMart, a young woman ahead of me, still in her minimum-wage work clothes, had her debit card declined. She told the clerk to subtract the cost of some fruit … [Read more...]
Drafting the Donkeyite dream team
Nevada Democrats need to issue draft cards. It’s wartime for democracy. The party should print draft cards (at union shops, of course), which their members can send to HQ or post at a new website. Those patriots can volunteer to be drafted in support of Clark County Commissioner Christine Giunchigliani for governor, Rep. Ruben Kihuen, D-LV, for U.S. Senate, and … [Read more...]
Trumping Reagan’s television rules
President Trump governs by reaction to media reactions to his reactions. How to provide adult supervision to such destructive pre-pubescence? The answer comes from former Nevada State Assembly Majority Leader Gene Evans, D-Elko. (Yes, Virginia, there was a time when Democrats were not shot on sight in Elko County.) Bill Harrah found Evans impressive and hired the Elko … [Read more...]
Bench warrants
As the old saying goes, Democrats don’t win elections. Republicans lose them. Every few years, Democrats take a shellacking and sooner or later some unoriginal commentator notes that the Donkeykongs don’t have a very deep bench. Witness the 2010 gubernatorial campaign of Clark County Commission Chair Rory Reid, Senator Harry’s kid. He was easily defeated by Gov. Veto El … [Read more...]
May Day for Labor Day
In case you didn’t notice, Monday was Labor Day -- everywhere but the United States. Bowing to the wealthy, political leaders more than century ago grudgingly established a day for workers as far as possible from the rest of the world’s rabble. So September it remains stateside. The USA today has the most repressive labor laws among first-world countries. That’s why … [Read more...]
Trump’ll shake ‘em up
Last week, Nicotine Bob lost his job. He never did give me his real name and now I’ll probably never know. Bob is about 70 and looks like a graying retired jockey, or perhaps the skinny guy behind the window taking bets at the race track. His pallor is the kind you’ve seen a thousand times, that of a heavy smoker. If you’ve lived in these parts for very long, you’ve … [Read more...]
Busted at the Legislature
I hope this story saves some lives. For the sin of wearing a hat at the Nevada Legislature, I was 86’d from the Assembly chamber last week. What should have been a comical occasion, worthy of United Airlines passenger jokes, instead served up serious warnings. As Congressman Ruben Kihuen began addressing a joint session in the Assembly chamber, a uniformed officer behind … [Read more...]
60 revenging rakkasans
Dear fellow suck...er, taxpayers: Tsar Donaldov’s little excursion in symbolic mass killing on the sands of Araby just cost us a minimum of $168,000,000.00, including the tab for replacing 60 Cruise Missiles which failed to disable the Shayrat airbase. Attacks were launched from there the very next day. The message seems to be that it’s OK for Putin puppet King Assad the … [Read more...]