On Oct. 7, Gov. Steve Sisolak said "I'm hopeful that the worst is behind us. But you never know with variants that are coming forward. I'm not anticipating any more mandates.” That didn’t age well because along came Omicron and inside 60 days the governor who ruled like a tyrant in 2020 decreed mandatory mask wearing for all Nevadans in indoor settings in … [Read more...]
Bungling, stumbling through COVID-19
The Biden Administration’s war on COVID-19 is beginning to look like the Biden’s Administration exit from Afghanistan – inexplicably sad and screwed up. I’m not sure where to start in chronicling the mess. December alone has brought a flurry of assertions from the president and the vice president that just don’t make sense. Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview … [Read more...]
Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad
Whatsoever you do to these, the least of my brethren, you do also to me.Yeshua of Nazareth, Galilee TRUE OR FALSE: Jesus of Nazareth had blue eyes and blonde hair.Buddha is a Christian saint.Christianity existed more than 600 years before Jesus. If you missed all three, you really need to read on. “Religions all lead to the same place,” ventured my mom many decades … [Read more...]
Odds and ends
The annual chore of cleaning out the files revealed a couple of items of interest this year. The first one is a decades old membership list of Reno’s venerable G.O.D. Club. Many of the names are of departed members, with a few still with us. The club was founded by Don Dondero and Bob Carroll after a conversation with Lee Frankovich about getting some old PR and Press … [Read more...]
Frederick Commentary: The night I met Desmond Tutu
As a snot-nosed reporter fresh out of college and working the night shift at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, I had three assignments – monitor the police scanner, re-write obits and dig up at least one story each week for the Saturday religion page. These were the jobs for the newest reporters in the 1970s. Believe me, I could tell you some stories from that era. Holding … [Read more...]
Is This You? That Dang Christmas Mouse
I suppose there is great intelligence in us learning to not look too hard at what is hiding under the surface of life. Like the curtain that was hiding the magic of the Wizard. Or engineering a cool mirror that you can stick under a door when Christmas presents are being brought in one afternoon just a few short—in reality a few LONG days before Christmas. I still wish I hadn’t … [Read more...]
Bail reform must go
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the amazing response of California politicians to rising crime in their state. San Francisco Mayor London Breed, head of a city so under siege by crime that residents there have taken to leaving their car doors unlocked and their trunks wide open when parking on the streets so that criminals can see there is nothing to steal in the car. (It saves … [Read more...]
Amazing coach
Chief topic of conversation at a recent Kaffee Klatsch was about football coach Norvell leaving Nevada. The conversation then evolved to coaches past and present at the U. My most memorable two were Jim Aiken and Jake Lawlor. Then I recalled a coach who got very little publicity—who was Art Broten. He was a physical education mentor. Of all the physical disciplines in … [Read more...]