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Archive for November, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007 Some things never change By Steve Sebelius You know, if Albert Einstein were still around, we’d totally ask him how Gov. Jim Gibbons fits in with his whole general theory of relativity thing. Because while light, gravity and even time aren’t constants in the universe, Gibbons’ ability to pull a political pooch screw most certainly is.
Consider: Gibbons comes out with dire [...]
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Monday, November 19, 2007 Oh, there was a debate By Steve Sebelius You’d think there would be nothing left to write about the Democratic presidential debate that took place at UNLV on Thursday. The national media were here, and the thing was broadcast live on CNN. Yet in all the coverage, there were a couple things missing.
The ridiculous
Nobody, to our knowledge, pointed out that Connecticut U.S. [...]
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Monday, November 19, 2007 Anything happen while we were gone? By Steve Sebelius We’re back from the California wine country, readers, and yes, we did imbibe quite a bit of the fruit of the vine last week. But we understand a thing or two happened in our absence, so let’s get caught up, shall we?
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was endorsed by both nutty televangelist Pat Robertson and [...]
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Thursday, November 8, 2007 Hiatus! By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff aren’t actually members of the Writers Guild of America, so technically, we’re not on strike. We totally empathize with our brothers and sisters in the writerly community, however, and wish them success on the picket line. Go Writers Guild of America!
However, we will be taking a brief respite [...]
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Program note By Steve Sebelius Readers, we’ve just been informed by the Mysterious People Who Run the Blogs that we’ll be changing servers sometime in the next couple of days.
That means that the blog — and the comments — will be most likely be "temporarily unavailable." We’re told that switching to this new Super Duper Quad-X Mega-Server 2000XLS — [...]
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007 This just in: Reid says no to AG nominee By Steve Sebelius Our own Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid added his voice to the chorus of those opposing President George W. Bush’s nomination of former federal judge Michael Mukasey to replace former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Here’s Reid’s statement on the matter:
"I was profoundly disturbed by statements Judge Michael Mukasey made during his confirmation hearings concerning [...]
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Plame on local radio By Steve Sebelius You may have heard of Valerie Plame. She’s the covert CIA officer who was working on keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of evildoers when she was outed in a column by corpulent conservative columnist Robert Novak. It turns out her name and secret job became "fair game" after her husband, former [...]
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Monday, November 5, 2007 Next week’s agenda By Steve Sebelius Readers, things are getting busy around here, and we don’t mean local elected officials burning up that series of tubes that we know as the Internet. No, there’s a bunch of fun stuff going on that we’ll unfortunately miss, since we’ll be out of town. (But don’t cry for us, Argentina. We’ll be in wonderful [...]
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Monday, November 5, 2007 Coffee wars? Didn’t Starbucks win that already? By Steve Sebelius Normally, we just delete the 10,321 news releases we get on a daily basis that we know we’re not going to use. But today, one caught our eye: A big coffee chain boasting about besting a lot of other coffee chains. We thought it illustrative of the coffee capitalist mindset in Las Vegas.
Take a [...]
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Monday, November 5, 2007 Quick Hits for Monday By Steve Sebelius Think you’ve read all there is to read? Oh, no, you haven’t! How about some Quick Hits?
Former mob lawyer Oscar Goodman, honored by a federal law enforcement group? Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith called that a "long shot" and Goodman a "gazillion-to-one underdog" to snag props from federal cops, "…the people who doggedly pursued [...]
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