David Colborne

OPINION: Harry Reid changed the game — but what was the game? - The Nevada Independent OPINION: Harry Reid changed the game — but what was the game? Read more at The Nevada Independent.

OPINION by David Colborne:

Nevada icon Harry Reid changed the game — but what was the game? Jon Ralston’s new book portrays a passionate fighter whose biggest enemy was perhaps the cynical malaise of the post-New Deal era.
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OPINION: Harry Reid changed the game — but what was the game? - The Nevada Independent OPINION: Harry Reid changed the game — but what was the game? Read more at The Nevada Independent.

"The Game Changer" highlights how Reid gained and secured his power not by overturning or meaningfully challenging any of the assumptions of his era, but instead by faithfully working squarely within them.

My latest for @thenvindy.com:

Good morning from The #WeMatter State.

On this day in 1867, Gov. Blasdel vetoed a bill to legalize gambling. Lawmakers would override Blasdel's veto of a similar bill in 1869. Gaming was banned in 1909 before it was legalized for good in 1931.

Primary: 91 days
General: 238 days

Jay: Guys, please don't let "skeets" stick The experiment in decentralized naming decisions has resulted in the worst possible term How about skoots? Can we bring back skoots? Bluesky OGs, help me out here, remember skoots? 10:45 PM · Apr 27, 2023

Say what you will about Jay, but she is solely responsible for Bluesky posts being called skeets.

Alas, poor Yorick; vaxxed?

pump and dumping an actual war and oil crisis from the white house is pretty impressive, i can't lie. like i have to be amazed

he’s gonna give a speech in front of an AI generated banner that says, “ŃMIMMS1ØN ACĞŒMPLISSHEP”

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

We can either have a high-trust society where people try to do the right thing whether others are watching or not, or we can have a low-trust society where everyone — including those working in the government — are all trying to scam each other.

There's no "trust me but not thee" option.

my prediction is this kind of gleeful anti-social, low-trust behavior is going to be stigmatized by Woke 2.0 www.curbed.com/article/whol...

Panic! At The Fertilizer Desk, US Edition

Americans: this is your regular reminder that maybe 0.01% of people who write for the news actually understand how fertilizer works.

But their editors all found out that scary headlines about "GLOBAL SHORTAGE??" get clicks.

Sure would be nice if Nevada's "Lithium Loop" were fully operational right now.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

IT'S STILL SUNDAY

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

I like that Canada has major political parties like “liberal”, “conservative”, and “French”

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

Mostly I say "please" a lot.

"I spoke to a former schoolteacher, who started his own business. He says he can no longer compete with these Mexican imports despite providing a higher quality product. I'm fighting for small businessmen like Walter White."

Petit fours imply the existence of petit fives, which are one better

Since detained immigrants are currently viewed by federal regulators as assets, not people, this is technically futures trading regulated under the CFTC, not illegal gambling prohibited under state law.

Mine is that if she only had a month or two to speedrun it, she might've had a chance.

Her polling was *really* strong until people had a moment to talk themselves out of supporting her.

my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy:

1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden

2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough

3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes

Sen. Harry Reid spent decades throwing federally funded infrastructure projects at rural Nevada.

Rural Nevada responded with death threats and sub-30% electoral support.

Why does *this one guy* have an unlimited pass for morally repugnant shit he did in his past but like, Pete Buttigieg being in the military and working for McKinsey and being gay and *not* having a Nazi tattoo is evidence he’s a secret right wing sellout or some shit?

OPINION: Stick that extra hour where the sun don’t shine - The Nevada Independent OPINION: Stick that extra hour where the sun don’t shine. Read more at The Nevada Independent.

OPINION by Elizabeth Thompson:

Who benefits from daylight saving time? Big business, tourism and retail — but actual humans, not so much. It’s time to stick that extra hour where the sun don’t shine.

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I wanted to like "Man In The High Castle". I really did.

Then it started turning into the Temporal Cold War bit from "ST: Enterprise," which I hated then and can't stomach now.

I'm old enough to remember when the US banned imported drones.

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