My daughters were born 65 years ago yesterday. Debra Joyce Donlevy and Donna Leslie Cline shared the same birthday and were fated to have their lives changed forever on the same night. Debbie and Donna met in Phoenix in 1978. They became instant bff’s (best friends forever). Debbie was visiting relatives and Donna came with her to drive home to Carson City. Neither made … [Read more...]

“You know the world is going to hell when the best golfer is black and the best rapper is white.” -- Charles Barkley, 2003 Last Tuesday’s Reno Gazette-Journal front page made me think of that bit of wit from Sir Charles. His pop culture portent has proven all too accurate. “Pandemic Not Done” the RGJ reported with an article from the Kaiser Family Foundation. “People … [Read more...]

The Orange Crusher’s presidential denial of COVID-19 danger caused somewhere between 200,000 and half a million needless American deaths. Now, Dr. T-Rump is favored to re-take the presidency. Politics is just a big tailgate party for the Red Team. Covid, RSV and Influenza are just liberal hoaxes. The Washoe County School District no longer requires vaccinations. Just sign … [Read more...]

An eye for an eye, A tooth for a tooth Vote for me and I’ll set you free. Rap on, brother, rap on -- The Temptations 1970 Donald Trump’s campaign is going hip-hop. The legendary Barbwire investigative team, as always, has spared every expense bringing you this exclusive. The Trump advisors view the Orange Crusher’s increasing poll numbers among black and … [Read more...]

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me / I lift my lamp beside the golden door” --Emma Lazarus Given the current state of current affairs, isn’t it sobering to note the poet’s last name? We can use a bit of resurrection. Of my America. And … [Read more...]

If the soul is darkened By a fear it cannot name If the mind is baffled When the rules don’t fit the game Who will answer? Never, EVER, play the other guy’s game. That sensible lesson resounds thru millennia from Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” down to Damon Runyon’s streets of New York. Alas and alack, that’s exactly what brought us to World War Three -- which … [Read more...]

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes Made of ticky-tacky, little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same” -- Pete Seeger Just whose idea was it that all those apartments and high rises sprouting like weeds in this backwater boomtown should evoke the latest in minimum security prison chic? Gloomy places beget gloomy people. The ambient … [Read more...]

A Carson City judge just nuked the state teachers union’s petition to place the Oakland A’s Gomorrah South corporate welfare stadium to a vote of taxpayers who will get stuck with the tab. Letting people vote? In Nevada? Outrageous. At the same time, a new union of sorts for renters was announced. One outta two ain’t bad. Said renters’ rights outfit is about half a … [Read more...]