I pay attention as I drive. Seeing all the oddities. Crows eating something off the road that left an unmistakable vibrant slide of unmentionable parts and pieces, until the very last moment when they hop up out of the way of the cars speeding towards them with horns honking. Like a crow knows what a honking horn means. Sorry, stepped in something and slipped off the … [Read more...]
Tap-out Joe Biden after the midterms
I’m no beltway insider, but from my vantage point looking down Highway into the greatness of Nevada, I don’t see any way Democrats can ride Joe Biden into 2024. The midterms are lost, almost everyone concedes that. Biden’s presidency so far has been one big bowl of ugly. You can bet the mortgage that the cool kids who do the math on these kinds of things have already … [Read more...]
Stealing from starving babies
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.Matthew Arnold 1851 About 120 years later, cartoonist Walt Kelly’s Pogo the Possum said pretty much the same thing, albeit with less elegance: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Nazi General Hermann Goering, who commanded military divisions, … [Read more...]
A mixed bag
TEXAS SHOOTING. Latest development in the horrible school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, at this writing, is that the police department is under investigation regarding the length of time it took for officers to enter and confront the shooter. Also notable is that the police chief was not cooperating in the scrutiny. When President Biden visited Uvalde, he was only 50 miles from … [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...]
A timeline that will haunt law enforcement
Seventeen minutes. One hundred and sixteen rounds fired. Nineteen kids and two teachers slaughtered in their elementary school classroom in Uvalde, TX. Seventeen minutes. That’s the time between when a mentally screwed up, mascara wearing 18-year-old entered the classroom with a rifle and the time officers burst into the classroom and killed him. We’ve reached the … [Read more...]
Security in schools
Major news story last week was the senseless murder of 19 young school children and at this writing two teachers by an 18 year old gunman, whose motive has yet to be determined. In addition to the school slaughter, the gunman first shot his grandmother, who survived. The assailant also wrecked his grandparent’s truck prior to the shooting. President Biden, in his remarks … [Read more...]
Is this you? Expanding Horizons
Contrary to popular belief, the world is not small. It is big. Really big. I heard the other day that the moon is shrinking. Just where it is going was not addressed. Nothing was said about the earth shrinking. I haven’t experienced any shrinkage near or around me. Dang it, not even my waist. Must have something to do with the Costco blueberry muffins I keep a supply of in my … [Read more...]