“Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.” — “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” 1989 I thought I settled all of this 33 years ago, dammit. Here’s the text of the January 27, 1989, Barbwire entitled “An Elegant Solution to Abortion.” The abortion quandary revolves around the classic question of cake: how to have it and eat … [Read more...]
An outstanding show
Every Saturday night, and some select dates, about 200 people get to see a world class magic show when “Magique” appears at its Keystone venue, which is located in the Keystone Square Shopping Center at the northwest corner of 4th Street and Keystone Avenue. The spot used to be The Keystone Movie Theater. For the current show, the interior was completely remodeled by the … [Read more...]
Is this you? That elusive nickle
I am pretty sure the first time I heard this very common line, “If I had a nickel for every time I,” and then it goes on with something that you do over and over and over again, it was my mom making the wish. Her life was so busy that I would bet those nickels would have added up to mountains of nickels. Yes, I have said it too. So me being me thought about all my nickel … [Read more...]
Time to resolve this conflict
It’s been a burr under the saddle of good governance in Nevada for as long as we’ve been a state – can public employees also serve as legislators? In 2020, the think tank Nevada Public Research Institute (full disclosure – I was on this organization’s board many moons ago) filed suit contending that public employees cannot also be legislators under the separation of powers … [Read more...]
Dare not speak its name
Actual knocking-on-doors candidates of every stripe appear to be hearing about one thing more than any other (gasp): Rent control. Everybody wants affordable housing in the abstract but political leaders are stuck in cement shoes when it comes to concrete solutions. In 1978, coinciding with the rise of the Reaganauts, Sparks-Reno was as much a boomtown as today. Eight … [Read more...]
The Twitter bird feed
Biggest news for the nation last week was the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk. The man who seems to have the golden touch said he was buying the social media company so that more voices could be heard. As everyone knows, Twitter has been the PR arm of the Democrat party for years. To illustrate how Liberal it was it is interesting to note that of all the Twitter employees … [Read more...]
Frederick Column: Time to resolve the separation of powers issue in Nevada, otherwise known as can public employees vote for their own pay raises?
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly SubversiveIt’s been a burr under the saddle of good governance in Nevada for as long as we’ve been a state – can public employees also serve as legislators?In 2020, the think tank Nevada Public Research Institute (full disclosure – I was on this organization’s board many moons ago) filed suit contending that public employees cannot also be … [Read more...]
Is this You? Forcing a Response
Speaking of spiders. Yes spiders. Once I stopped along the road to take a picture. On a lark. I sometimes stop and put on these fuzzy neon pink slippers and take pictures of them on my feet doing things that will involve where I am. Someday I will put them all together creating a giant pink picture of my silly travels. And that is where I saw the snake. Spider speak is coming … [Read more...]