The biggest news that broke late last week was the announcement that President Donald Trump has agreed to face-to-face talks with North Korea’s Kim Jung Un. Most speculation after the announcement was; How would the mainstream liberal media handle the situation? True to form, many of the headlines and TV reports the next day claimed that it was, “Trump’s big gamble”. One … [Read more...]
Obama in La La Land
In his most recent TV appearance former president Barack Obama issued a statement that, as Hillary Clinton is wont to say “strains credulity”. That statement was, “There were no scandals in my administration.” Apparently, the ex-prez is suffering from some sort of memory loss as he seems to forget he was the only top official who was credited with “the lie of the year” when … [Read more...]
A Range of Headlines
Every year I check the list of departed celebrities to see if I had personally interfaced with any of them. For 2017 and 2018 there was a surprisingly large number. Among them were Hugh Hefner, Don Rickles, Glen Campbell, Rose Marie, Keith Jackson and Jerry Van Dyke. Of all of them, I probably spent the most time with Van Dyke. I first met him when he was one of the … [Read more...]
Local Tennis News
This area’s ties to big time tennis first surfaced in 1965 with the opening of Peter Paxton’s Tahoe Racquet Club at Incline Village. That event drew the top professional players of the day who included: Rod Laver, Pancho Gonzalez and Kenny Rosewall. Ten years later the Clint Eastwood Celebrity Tennis Tournament at Incline saw Clint, Gene Hackman, Cornel Wild, Lloyd Bridges, Dan … [Read more...]
Dueling Memos
Currently Washington DC is awash in a series of dueling memos. The first was the Republican version from the House Intelligence Oversight Committee. When it was released, it was completely unredacted and purported to show that the FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and transition team was based largely on the infamous Trump dossier. When word of this memo first surfaced, … [Read more...]
Dreamers vs Citizens
Apparently all of the Democrats in Congress, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who have long derided Republicans for favoring the top one percent now have a one percent of their own. The Dems’ one percent now consists of “dreamers” who were created by an illegal act of President Obama. Congressional Democrats are more than … [Read more...]
Dysfunction in DC
Many years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, on a junket to Harold Smith, Jr.’s casino in Yugoslavia. In one conversation he said that the most memorable character he created for the sci-fi TV series was Mr. Spock. One of Spock’s most memorable quotes was, “It does not compute.” That term might well be applicable to the dysfunction in our … [Read more...]
The Winter Olympics
With the 2018 Winter Olympics a few weeks away in South Korea, it might be well to remember when the Games were held at Squaw Valley some fifty eight years ago. In Reno’s case the nearby Games of ’60 provided a strong economic boom in the usually dead winter months. In fact, rooms were filled all over the Reno/Sparks area. As I remember, the first physical contact locals … [Read more...]