For the past month I’ve played ‘cat and mouse,’ with a couple of real mice. That leaves me in the role of the cat. Because I have dogs, I don’t use poison bait to kill the mice. In fact I prefer to live-trap them, then release them far away from the neighborhood, deep in the…

Realized I should take a picture of my neighbor, Tom’s tree in its full glory of fall coloring and before the wind and chill release the leaves for the year. It will go bare before anyone knows it and will remain so until next Spring. It’s such a shame that we often take for granted the small but…

Angry about being fire when he refused to stop trying to convert coworkers to Islam, Alton Nolen decided to return and cut off the head a former coworker and stabbing another former coworker at a Oklahoma business. Nolen is now charged with first degree murder and assault. Authorities say Nolen converted to Islam and radicalized while…

In an appearance on MSNBC, Florida Congressman Dennis Ross said banning flights from West Africa to the U.S. makes sense and said he plans to introduce a bill doing so once the House reconvenes in November. However a self-righteous journalist has to score points by being exact, arguing semantics. “There are no direct flights that…

Please explain to me again jus’ how ‘conservative’ Nevada’s Governor Brian Sandoval is. Back when he was first elected I wrote that he is really a ‘progressive,’ pretending to be something he’s not. Recently, as I drove along Mill Street, approaching Kietzke Lane in Reno, I saw a billboard for his re-election as governor. I couldn’t help…

Oh, fuck me! I jus’ put Kay on an flight so she can meet her sister for a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, then I hear this… “A health care worker who may have handled a specimen from the Liberian man who died from Ebola in Dallas is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean,”…

So often anymore, people get wrapped up in the politics of a subject that they miss the actual message and thereby the real threat of the matter as is the case with Ebola. It doesn’t matter if an infected person’s spittle when sneezed or coughed is considered ‘airborne,’ or not! I don’t care if the…

A passenger from Frontier Airlines flight 1143 flew into Reno-Tahoe International Airport and was checked for Ebola. That is the flight the second nurse diagnosed with the deadly disease was on before being admitted to the hospital. Officials say the individual does not pose significant risk and was released. What the hell does ‘significant’ mean and are they…

It was Friedrich Nietzsche I believe who wrote: “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” While Nietzsche is one of my least favorite quotable people, his remark does sound like the world we are living in now. We were a nation that did not — and never did…

At first I thought, “Now, who did I piss off and what did I say that caused this?” Such is my first reaction to finding both my Facebook page and my WordPress site unable to load from my home computer. Aarrgghh! My ‘outage’ began last night as the wind whipped through the Spanish Springs valley…