Is any state more pompous than California and its ballot measures? Consider, if you will, the 2018 law regulating the size of cages for pigs eaten in California. Golden State voters in their infinite wisdom passed Proposition 12 requiring bigger cages for certain farm animals, including breeding pigs. Pork producers sued, advancing the argument that 99.99% of bacon … [Read more...]
Laxalt dances on slain teen’s grave
Her voice was sweet as sugar candy Her touch was as soft as a bed of goose down. Her eyes shone bright like the pretty lights That shine in the night out of Yerington town… Her pony did stumble and she did fall. Her dying touched the hearts of us one and all.* -- John Denver’s “Darcy Farrow” Welcome to my nightmare. Again. Not many years ago, this town was … [Read more...]
Our life as mushrooms with Joe Biden
We are on the eve of nuclear destruction, which is very nice to know. The news that we may all be dead soon leaked out of a Joe Biden fundraiser for big political donors in New York. I don’t know about you, fellow mushrooms, but if we are, indeed, on the brink of a nuclear winter, I’d kinda like to hear it directly from the president, and not through the grapevine after a … [Read more...]
Changing Time Changes
Have you heard the call for, “no more daylight savings time,” from the masses which includes me and probably all the way back to my great, great grandparents? Spring after spring. Fall after fall. To no avail since again soon the time will change, falling back. Soon we can rest assured we will have the delightful chore of making 2 o’clock a.m. magically become 1 o’clock a.m. I … [Read more...]
Stop taking them stupid pills
Good advertising differentiates your product. There was once a kinder, gentler time when you never named competitors. Why give free exposure? Nowadays, trashing is expected, especially in follytix. Apparently, few think about the downside. Such is the case with the media gurus advising Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford against his Republican opponent, a lawyer named … [Read more...]
Desert Snowmen
As fall falls around me I am already thinking of the snow of winter and what it will bring. Then I smacked myself around and decided not to get so far ahead of things. Well except for the little window I keep open in my phone that today tells me it is a mere 191 days until next Easter. But I only look at it once a day. Okay maybe twice. No, I am not wishing my precious life … [Read more...]
Woo-hoo! Nevada’s No. 2 in the nation
It’s hard to keep up with California, but when it comes to the high price of gasoline, Nevada’s doing its level best. Today, California has the highest average price of gasoline in America, coming in at $6.29 a gallon. And, Nevada is No. 2 – yea, we’re No. 2! – at $5.42 a gallon. The average price of gas nationwide is $3.80. When I was in college, way back when … [Read more...]
Underwater at crunch time
Props to Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve for her new TV commercial, a wet t-shirt contest starring herself. It’s all sweetness and light, including computer effects that miraculously turn the mucky Truckee into a shallow Sea of Galilee. Her Honor walks on water, pulls a Jonah and submerges, followed by quick pix of municipal achievement rah-rah. In the concluding scene, she … [Read more...]