Post-its from the edge

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I’m feeling a little random this week. Here is some of what’s been going on in my head.

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I appreciate the fact that Al Gore took the lead on the global warming thing, but I wish he’d stepped back and let someone else narrate. Unfortunately, many people who really need to see An Inconvenient Truth will be put off by the movie’s occasional campaign moments, and many good ideas have been undermined by apparent conflicts of interest.

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My pals Greg and Mary Jo Adams were showing me their new pickup. The cab was packed with groceries, and by way of apology, he said, “Sorry, we’ve been consumering a lot this week.” Seems to me “consumering” is a perfectly good verb with connotations of consumption and being a consumer (shopper).

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Do you suppose it’s possible that Darren Mack could get a fair trial in Reno? I don’t believe anything I read in the media that I didn’t edit, report or write myself, but I find myself believing the guy did it. I’ve got no primary evidence. I never met Mack, his murdered wife, his children. I never sold him steroids. Does anyone believe that any of the relatively small family of judges in this state hasn’t been following this case as though their lives depended on it?

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I hope people are not so blind that they can’t see that this administration is trying to undermine the political process with these election-year sleight-of-hand tricks: fake gay marriage issue, fake flag burning issue, fake immigration “reform.”

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Who’s this race baiter who thinks that national border security is the issue we care about in the Nevada lieutenant governor race? I’ll tell her what I’m teaching my kids: Any politician who chooses to offer hatred rather than ideas of substance loses any claim to being the lesser of two evils when it’s time to cast a ballot.