In the world today we all have our pictures taken daily. Nearly everywhere and nearly all day long. Well hopefully not in bathrooms. You just need to assume cameras are everywhere. I am not a fan of the picture taking world. I have come to realize that no matter what you look like in your head, the camera certainly does not lie. On top of that, those sneaky cameras like to … [Read more...]
Here’s what real intolerance looks like
There is more than a bit of irony in the unfolding story of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who sits in a Russian jail after being detained for allegedly transporting hashish oil in her luggage. Don’t get me wrong. This is not a condemnation of Griner, a seven-time WNBA All-Star and two-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year. She’s as much a political prisoner as anyone in the … [Read more...]
Properly Subversive: Mitt Romney has something to say
Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick Former presidential candidate and now Utah Sen. Mitt Romney lives in political no-man’s land – untrusted by conservatives and liberals alike. He’s got something interesting to say, however. It’s worth a little attention. Boiled to the bone, his message takes both Republicans and Democrats to the woodshed on … [Read more...]
Properly Subversive: Does a chicken cry?
Sherman Frederick/Properly Subversive Ever since newly minted Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could not – or more accurately would not – answer the question “what is a woman” at her confirmation hearing, American political punditry remains at the ready to do battle over the topic. Don’t expect much of a fight in Nevada, though. This remains a pioneer … [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...]
Primary Colors
Primary Elections for both Republicans and Democrats were held in five states on May 16th. The results may be a harbinger of things to come in November. For the Republicans, the big issue was how prominent a part the endorsement of former President Trump would play in the outcomes. At this writing, Trump was two for four with the Oz contest in Pennsylvania too close to … [Read more...]
Another ‘Kamala-ism’
I’ve tried to let a significant passage of time go by before commenting – again – on our incredible vice president. Now’s the time. The ever-bizarre Kamala Harris went down to the bayou (Sunset, LA, to be precise) to talk up her federal initiative to bring greater broadband internet access to rural America. It’s needed, as rural Nevadans know. But, how in gawd’s green Earth … [Read more...]
Time to resolve this conflict
It’s been a burr under the saddle of good governance in Nevada for as long as we’ve been a state – can public employees also serve as legislators? In 2020, the think tank Nevada Public Research Institute (full disclosure – I was on this organization’s board many moons ago) filed suit contending that public employees cannot also be legislators under the separation of powers … [Read more...]