February 28, 2024
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November 22, 2023
Nevada prison officials say they’ll increase portion sizes amid complaints of inmate hunger
By Naoka Foreman The Nevada Independent Nevada officials said Wednesday that they will increase food portions in prisons amid concerns that dietary changes implemented in 2019 were causing health problems and testimony that some inmates are resorting to eating “toothpaste tacos,” or toothpaste sandwiched in between toilet paper, salt packages and antacids to soothe hunger … [Read more...]
The Perfect Ride
Can anyone explain to me, why are there unicycles? I was just cyber shopping and for some reason my shop-o-box put me into unicycles. Then of course I had to look at them. Seeing that I, well not me but maybe you, can get a unicycle for under one hundred bucks still does not make me want to drop one in my shopping cart. But! Yes a single wheeled “but.” There seems to be a … [Read more...]
Harris and Ford end Nevada’s drug crisis
Vice President Kamala Harris and Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford met. I know this because there was a picture on Facebook of the VP at a table with our AG. The caption said they were discussing “working together to end the fentanyl crisis”. Wow, the end of the fentanyl crisis is in sight? Pardon my skepticism, but wouldn’t that mean it was actually slowing down … [Read more...]
The Hounds of the Tubervilles
“The Civil War is still going on. It’s still to be fought, and regrettably, it can still be lost.” -- Historian Barbara Fields; “The Civil War”, Ken Burns’ 1990 PBS series. Southern pols are so cute when they whine. William Shakespeare foreshadowed the breed when he termed infants as “mewling and puking” in their nurses’ arms. Too bad today’s mewls are also puking on … [Read more...]