Don’t call a lawyer to sue a doctor
If you need a lawyer to sue your doctor, go to church because only God can help you. A Sparks reader last week contacted several attorneys about a potential malpractice case. None called back. The...
View ArticleHope one of your detractors attends your funeral
BOND, JULIAN BOND. Legendary civil-rights leader Julian Bond lies dead at 75. I had the honor of corresponding with the great man last November and utilized his words as we helped prevent...
View ArticleLabor Day 2016: Nevada workers’ last stand
Last June, one labor leader termed the 2015 legislative session “The Great Escape.” Republican Gov. Veto El Obtúsè’s 2015 tax proposals would not have passed without Democratic and union support. Minus...
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We don’t need no education, biblical or not
Andrew Barbano I’ve been right more often than the Bible over the past 40 years. That’s mostly because I’m a lot closer to reality than ancient writers of morality metaphors for illiterate goatherds or...
View ArticleCheering for cheating when jockocracy rules
Does a defensive back admit to holding and demand a penalty? Have you ever seen a baseball player ask an umpire to reverse calling him safe? In the post-Michael Jordan era, traveling is almost never...
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Pondering the bright side of warmongering
Andrew Barbano War is perhaps the greatest creator of change, good and bad. If not for war, we would not have come out of WW2 with electronic computers, first developed to quickly calculate artillery...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows and nubile wenches
IRA THE TAXER? Corporate welfare was one of the few areas wherein Ira Hansen and I consistently agreed back when he was a Tribune regular. Assemblymember Hansen, R-Sparks, did two segments on the...
View ArticleGood news, bad news and Machine Gun Michele
Information is power. And money. Back in the Dark Ages, books were locked away in castles and monasteries. The illiterate unwashed were told what they contained by authorized spokespersons. Thus were...
View ArticleParsing the paranoia of powerful penny-pinchers
The longer that overlords hold power, the more paranoid they become. So it is today with the gambling-industrial complex. A dozen years since their spectacular failure of 2003, they finally got their...
View ArticleFrom holy of holies to lair of the moneychangers
I’m a tough guy for preachers to impress. John Auer is impressive. The former pastor of downtown Reno’s First United Methodist Church found his calling after inspiration from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
View ArticleThe Donald and The Church Lady run among us
Donald Trump and Sharron Angle? Christmastime for us columniators! Just after I learned that The Donald will darken the Sparks Nugget this Thursday, I heard a scurrilous political rumor (is there any...
View ArticleLast of the dinosaurs: Grease for corporate gears
I attended last Wednesday’s retirement reception for longtime Reno Gazette-Journal reporters Bill O’Driscoll, Ray Hagar, Susan Skorupa and Jeff DeLong, last of the dinosaurs. The latter is former...
View ArticleWeekend at Bernie’s with Eugene McCarthy’s grandchildren
Her grandfather avoids politics “because we got burned by Eugene McCarthy.” His 20-something granddaughter has traveled here for the past several weeks to campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont....
View ArticleSorcerer’s apprentices work cheap in Nevada
Nevada follytix always brings cartoons to life. Accordingly, Sparks City Hall will soon allow anyone to audition for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. I’m bad enough with cars and plumbing, but electricity...
View ArticleOn artificial turf, don’t breathe unless necessary
Tribune ace photographer John Byrne’s action shot in this newspaper was pretty, ugly, and pretty ugly. At first glance, it looked like a plague of dark locusts rising above an otherwise green field....
View ArticleTurf and training: Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Last week’s Barbwire about toxic turf at Sparks’ Golden Eagle Regional Park exposed a bad situation which now appears worse. According to the University of Nevada athletic department, Mackay Stadium,...
View ArticleDirty deeds done dirt cheap – again and again
BRAIN DAMAGE DEPT. I spoke to a shamefaced coach, aware of the hazardous waste upon which his kids were practicing. Add the football fields of McQueen, Damonte Ranch, Manogue, Carson and Douglas high...
View ArticleThis is not the America anyone’s God blessed
I get a lot of weird phone messages. Land grabs and murder in the rurals, who you gonna call? I recently helped a Carson City senior citizen who cares for her disabled son. Her landlord would not fix...
View ArticleFaraday’s fair name befouled in fallow fields of Vegas
Last week’s corporate welfare orgy produced at least one beneficial result: The electric car cancer may not spread much further. Red Chinese hucksters expropriated the name of the great British...
View ArticleOpen season on law-breaking dangerous drones
Politics makes strange bedfellows and therein lies the solution to the nation’s drone problem. It’s only a matter of time before one accidentally or intentionally kills somebody. Or starts a wildfire....
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