The re-elect Joe Biden Committee and its PR agency, the New York Times, can’t understand why Americans aren’t buying into Bidenomics. Why can’t the Average Joe and Josephine see how wages are up, jobs are plentiful and inflation has slowed? I’ll tell you why. Because at the end of the month, when all the bills are paid and American families push away from the kitchen … [Read more...]
A tale of two cupcakes
“Your first game should be against East Cupcake,” NCAA champion basketball coach Al McGuire said many years ago. The second contest of the season should be against East Cupcake State, preferably home games, the story goes. The UNR Wolf Pack just took that lesson the hard way. They were not even accorded the honor of Cupcake Number One. That diss went to fellow Mountain West … [Read more...]
Is this you? Oh my stars!
The stars at night shine big and --- beautifully. You thought I was going to say “bright” didn’t you? Well good luck getting that song out of your head today. At least that one isn’t as bad as “It’s a small, small world.” The real truth is that yes, in rural Nevada and rural everywhere you haven’t seen the stars of a summer sky until you see that sky without any other light. … [Read more...]
Why criminals don’t like traffic stops
The latest cause embraced by the “cops are racist” crowd comes in the effort to stop police from pulling over vehicles involved in minor traffic infractions. The theory goes that once stopped, police can find any number of BS reasons to invoke a search of the car, sometimes resulting in the discovery of drugs, guns etc. That’s “unreasonable” because most of the people arrested … [Read more...]
You bet your life
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”-- H.L. Mencken (paraphrased) The last bastion of our beleaguered democracy is under new and unexpected assault. A bunch of Wall Street bandidos are pushing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to allow big league betting on follytix. This ain’t no barroom pool. This monster is the zombie … [Read more...]
A Toss Is Not A Throw
It was pure luck that paired me with my other half. Some how, and for some reason we were a good throw and catch couple. Over the years I learned just how to throw things to him. He was on the roof and needed a hammer. Up it went. Down in the well pit and needed a new pressure switch. Coming down with out the part falling in the mud. There are couples like that. If there had … [Read more...]
A ‘soiree’ with libertarians and the governor’s office
I want to tell you that I sat in on an intimate soiree with Gov. Joe Lombardo’s Chief of Staff Ben Kieckhefer for a Q&A on the state of the state. But as a young writer I had an editor once who jumped down my throat for incorrectly using the word “soiree.” “Are you French, Frederick,” she said? No, English, mainly. “Was this event an evening party?” No, it … [Read more...]
Life as a color cartoon
Since the first cave dweller scrawled on a rock, artists have been trying to teach us. We ignore them at our peril and we thus live in the most perilous of times. And so we slog forward as best we can. LAUGH OR CRY DEPT. Cartoonists condense reality better than even bumper sticker…er…meme writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau delivered a typical gut punchline in … [Read more...]