It was a fine spectacle to watch the Nevada Legislature try to hogtie artificial intelligence like some wild steer fresh out of the mountains when AI is more like fog–and slips through your fingers and makes you look foolish for trying. During this session, more than a dozen bills got cooked up, all promising to…

It is one of the grand marvels of American life that whenever a simple rule gets laid down, like “don’t discriminate,” there’ll be a thousand learned men to stand up, puff out their chests, and explain why it doesn’t apply to them. Seeing the rickety DEI contraption creaking and groaning in every schoolhouse, the Trump…

Out yonder in Nye County, where the sun sets slow–and the law rides quicker than a jackrabbit with its tail on fire, a peculiar incident unfolded that’d make even a demon raise an eyebrow. On the evening of April 8, just after supper time, Deputy Sedrick Sweet was rolling down Highway 160 in his marked…

In Nevada, where the sun don’t ask permission to fry a man like a flapjack, the price of gasoline has taken a polite little tumble. A gallon of regular now fetches $3.87, which is four cents less than it did just last week–about enough to make a feller smile before he remembers he still can’t…

In the bright, painted halls of Pinecrest Academy down in Henderson, where the floors shine slicker than a politician’s promise, Governor Joe Lombardo declared he’s goin’ to fix Nevada’s schools–this time for real. He called it the Nevada Accountability in Education Act, a name so dressed-up it needs a bonnet and parasol. According to the…

It appears the great Tesla chase has taken a curious turn, and the boys in the suits have gone and moved the goalposts while the game was still afoot. This week, the Trump administration, no stranger to ruckus or favor trading, threw a mighty fine lasso around the neck of the federal crash-reporting rules and…

There is a force more dangerous than evil. The force, unlike evil, cannot be reasoned with, exposed, or fought directly. It spreads silently, blinding people to the truth and rendering them immune to logic. That force is stupidity. Stupidity is a weightier threat than evil because it is not merely an intellectual failure but a…

Authorities are searching for 15-year-old Alisa Petrov, who exited a train in Provo and was asking strangers for a bus ticket to Las Vegas. Alisa is described as 5-foot-3, weighing 122 pounds, with brown eyes and long light brown hair. She wore baggy jeans and a black hoodie while carrying a blue backpack with a…

Every man’s got a day of reckoning. Some find it on a battlefield, others at the altar, and a select, unlucky few—such as myself—find it standing at a bar in Virginia City, having discovered they’ve spent the better part of four years answering to a Spanish word, the meaning of which I had no clue.…

Now, it came to pass that Governor Joe Lombardo did on a Wednesday, April 23–which is not the finest day in history but will do in a pinch–put his name to a bill most solemn and proper. Said bill makes it the business of every good Nevadan to mark January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance…