Nevada Blogs

I think we can put to rest any lingering doubts we may have that George W. Bush is completely delusional. Apparently, the mid-term elections were a loud and clear message to everyone else except the President, so let me be crystal clear: Mr. President, the 9/11 attacks happened on YOUR watch. You and your people ...

The latest revelations of Representative Foley’s sexual desires for young boys is really nothing new in a country that seems constantly in search of new ways to shock and disgust itself. If history has taught us anything, its that the mindless accumulation of power has the same sorry outcome in every case, no exceptions: sooner ...

We all remember the images of Wall Street opening a week after 9/11, of the search and recovery efforts at Ground Zero, of men and women returning to workplaces coated with fine grey dust, and schoolchildren going back to public schools in Lower Manhattan. Now this corporate/government "rush to return to normalcy" plan has brought ...

How much is enough? How can our thinly-veiled desire for vengeance, masquerading as justice, ever hope to vindicate the 3000 human lives, cruelly snuffed by acts of cowardice and desperation? We have long considered acts of terror perpetrated against civilians to be the ultimate evil, yet do we truly believe our enemies consider their acts ...

Thank goodness the government is keeping us safe from shampoo, bottled water, hand cream, and the deadliest of all chemical weapons: cheap floral perfume (I know I’ll sleep better at night). Political transparency is a relative term: the idea of smuggling chemicals onto a plane to blow it up is nothing new, it’s been a ...

Here's some of the highlights of six years with Bush/GOP led Federal Government: A corrupt GOP-led government that favor$ corporate interest$ rather than the well being of the American people A nebulous “War on Terror” with no objectives, no enemies, and no end in sight Our continued occupation of Iraq has turned into a quagmire ...

Las Vegas Sun - Thursday, May 18th 2006Letter: 'Bush economy' sure does explain a lot The "Bush economy" explains a great deal about why George W. Bush failed as a businessman and went into politics in the first place. It seems cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans is sort of like paying them "dividends" on ...

(Just Whose Government is it anyway?) I would rather die a free man than live one moment as a slave to fear. -TANSTAAFL!You’ll have to pardon my utter contempt and cynicism (or at least put up with it for awhile). I find myself waxing nostalgic: I miss “The good old days,” when politicians actually pretended ...

I don’t like Fox News that much, really I don’t. Mostly, I believe they are everything they say they aren’t, (namely: unfair, unbalanced, biased, spun, pro-Bush mouthpiece). Admittedly, Fox News really knows their target audience. They know exactly how they think, feel, what they believe, how they will react, and they deliver the just right ...

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. –Edward R. MurrowI’m too young to remember hearing Edward R. Murrow’s tagline as he ended his broadcast each night. My parents were still young children when Senator Joseph McCarthy ...

Fiscal Irresponsibility-By the Numbers$236 Billion: Budget surplus left by Clinton administration $8 Trillion: Current National debt after 5 years of the Bush administration$350 Billion: Current amount earmarked for the war in Iraq with no end in sight$10 Billion: Current total value of no-bid contracts Haliburton has received in Iraq andthe Gulf States after Hurricanes Katrina ...

Often when I find myself nearby, I’ll stop in at the local Tower Records WOW Superstore. While I love music and I usually end up buying a CD or two while I'm there, there's another reason I like to visit this particular store: Magazines. The store itself is huge. I can't guess at the square ...

For most of my life, I have avoided mathematics whenever and wherever possible. I hated math. It wasn’t so much that I couldn’t do it, but that I didn’t enjoy doing it. Public school math teachers seemed to believe teaching one way to do things was the only way to keep things simple, and any ...

Once upon a time, most people were not particularly interested in access to information. Those that were knew where to find it, and those who weren’t, didn’t bother too much about it. With the dawn of the Information Age, this began to change. Suddenly, information was readily available to anyone who wanted it simply by ...

The Outside Looking In – Societal PerceptionsPublic education for the majority of the Twentieth Century was modeled after the Industrial Age assembly line and behavioral psychology, which equated every student as merely a set of stimuli and responses, rather than as individual human beings with individual wants and needs. Students were “tracked” according to whether ...

Many people have asked me about why I have a personal webpage, or a weblog at all. They do not know why I would want to put so much time and effort into something that probably has little or no meaning for most everybody else. Think about that. By publishing on the web in such ...

Once upon a time, the three major branches of the U.S. Military placed a lowest bidder contract for computers...because these branches had their own procurement offices and funding, the Army ends up with DEC computers, the Air Force ends up with IBM computers, and the Navy ends up with Unisys computers. It would not be ...

In the aftermath of perhaps the most vivid election in recent memory, I feel like a member of the home team crowd at a sporting event; suddenly hushed by a well-executed play by the visitors. In a hotly contested race such as this, there are always penalties and prices to be paid. The democratic process ...

I remember the “good old days” when Doom was a free download from the Internet. Everyone I knew was playing it. It was a great game for taking out frustrations on: go blow away a few demons and everything seemed right with the world again. It beats the heck out of solitaire. Doom was a ...

I’ve come to wonder a great deal about customer service in America. It seems as though somewhere along the way, we’ve forgotten the old axiom: “The customer is always right.” Harkening back to “...The good old days...” when the customer/merchant relationship was generally an interpersonal one, the people that one relied on ...