Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes Made of ticky-tacky, little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same” -- Pete Seeger Just whose idea was it that all those apartments and high rises sprouting like weeds in this backwater boomtown should evoke the latest in minimum security prison chic? Gloomy places beget gloomy people. The ambient … [Read more...]
Upsy daisy Nevada crazy
A Carson City judge just nuked the state teachers union’s petition to place the Oakland A’s Gomorrah South corporate welfare stadium to a vote of taxpayers who will get stuck with the tab. Letting people vote? In Nevada? Outrageous. At the same time, a new union of sorts for renters was announced. One outta two ain’t bad. Said renters’ rights outfit is about half a … [Read more...]
Three destinations you should visit before the next Nevada Day
By David Colborne The Nevada Independent Last week in the Nevada Independent, I listed five locations in five of Nevada’s counties that speak to something unique and special about Nevada’s character and history. This week, I present to you three more destinations to consider visiting before the next Nevada Day passes you by — including the obligatory Basque restaurant … [Read more...]
Is this you? Watching Re-runs or Re-reading Books
There are things that I think most of us might agree with. Like after a great meal of perfectly yummy tacos most of us have said, “Man I could eat nothing but tacos for the rest of my life.” I know I’ve heard something along those lines by others over the years. Like having chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and really cold milk for every meal from now until the end of … [Read more...]
From one scoundrel to the next
Even though my old newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, spent many-a column inches chronicling (and sometimes exposing) the self-serving duplicity of Nevada’s late U.S. Senator Harry Reid, I didn’t say a thing when McCarran International Airport was re-named after him. McCarran was a scoundrel in his time, so why not keep the tradition going. Plus, if we’re going to be … [Read more...]
A brief history of the end of the world
“Thou shalt not kill.” -- God I don’t remember Moses (or was it Charlton Heston?) including any list of exceptions to that order. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention. Alas and alack, World War Three has already begun. Of 195 countries on this little blue marble, 110 are currently shooting, according to the Geneva Academy. That’s well over half, 56 percent. The world’s … [Read more...]
Is this you? Time to wait on weight
Yes, there are those among us that never seem to worry about what size to pick up when shopping for new jeans. They usually just pic a pair of size 10 or my stars a size 0! While I in my life I grab at least a 12 and work up from there. We shall not even talk about tops. AARRGGHH However I have recently seen this posted here and there from my silly friends on Facebook, “I don’t … [Read more...]
Playing the‘Greater Idaho’ game
I watch the “Greater Idaho” movement like I watch a cricket match – with a strange and curious attraction. For those who don’t know, there’s a movement to pull the counties on the eastern side of Oregon into the abutting state of Idaho to make a more simpatico “Greater Idaho” state. Why? Because politically and culturally, the coastal side of Oregon, which holds the … [Read more...]