Sometimes people come to therapy not to look for answers; rather, to report the answers they’ve found. On the surface, it doesn’t seem to make sense. That is, if you’ve found the answer to your question, then why the need to give money to a therapist to announce it? Why not simply ‘go’ with it? But, sometimes the answer we stumble across is a complete shock and surprise. It … [Read more...]

This past week prosecutors appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the decision by a Nevada federal judge to dismiss with prejudice all charges against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and a self-style militiaman from Montana because the government failed to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense. Knowing the track record of the … [Read more...]

This column will end where it starts. With some trepidation almost two decades ago, I passed out one of my earliest Tribune columns entitled “I was a teenage racist” at a local NAACP meeting. (Barbwire Jan. 12 1990 et seq.) Former NAACP President and LDS Elder William Moon stood up and termed it “excellent.” Thanks, old friend. “How could a kid like me have had any … [Read more...]

By Trina Machacek Over the Christmas season—I know, no more about Christmas—I’ll be quick. Hey, I can be quick! Over Christmas produce departments sell mixed nuts, in their shells. I don’t buy them, but my grandparents did. There was always a nut bowl with nut cracker and picks set out and nuts were there for the taking. I wonder why? Seems it would be so much easier to … [Read more...]

People come to my office with anguish and despair about their addicted loved one. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings and friends – flailing, cruelly impaled by helplessness, like an insect on a pin. Bit by bit, piece by piece, they watch The Addict deteriorate, come apart, and sink ever deeper into the madness of addiction. And there is nothing they can do. Or so they … [Read more...]

After learning this past week that the Department of Energy had secretly shipped a thousand pounds of weapons-grade plutonium to the Nevada National Security Site in Nye County before the state had filed a federal lawsuit in November seeking to block such shipments, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak and the state’s entire Democratic delegation to D.C. flew into paroxysms of … [Read more...]

I didn’t know it at the time, but I have it on good authority that I was governor of Nevada in 2014. Most people think that Gov. Veto El Obtúsè was in charge back then. However, no less than current Republican legislative leaders are telling people that I was the governor. Little ole me. They have been blaming “the governor” for ordering the Reno-Sparks NAACP to demand that … [Read more...]

At the time of this writing the Democrats and Republican were meeting to negotiate effective border security. At the same time Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reiterating her stance on the fact that there would be no money for a Wall. This comes as a little bit of a surprise since both she and Senator Schumer said they would be open to negotiations once the Government shutdown has … [Read more...]