“But since the kites are self-propelled and radar-controlled, tails are quite superfluous and rather silly.”

Who said this, and when? This Administration is dominated and directed by wealth and for the accumulation of wealth. It runs smoothly like a well-organized industry and should do so because industry runs it for the benefit of industry. Corporate wealth profits as never before in history. We turn over the national resources to private [...]

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GOP wants to investigate AARP

You don’t suppose that this has anything to do with the fact that AARP has been a vocal opponent of dismantling Social Security and Medicare do you? AARP responds. Pretty soon the Republicans won’t have any more groups to go after.

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Mining and the Legislature – April 5th!

On pending mining legislation: Amending the state constitution [SJR 15] will be a long haul with no guarantee of success. A couple of bills are on board this session though, that could curb some of the deductions that allow mining to take billions in profits out of the ground and pay little or no tax [...]

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Happy Birthday

Google tells me that today is the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen.  There is much more to him than the Bunsen burner! A talented chemist and professor, he sounds like he was an all around good guy. Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811[1][2][3] – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission [...]

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Visual Aids: Corporations paying their fair share? Overtaxed? Hardly.

A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say. Here’s a chart I came up with showing the percentage of all federal receipts by source. That blue line is We The People. That green line is We The People. That red line? Corporations.   Data from Table 2.1 - Receipts by Source: 1934 – 2016 (click on [...]

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Why does Brian Sandoval hate Nevada?

Brian Sandoval is out of his mind. Or he is just what passes for Republican leadership these days. Gov. Brian Sandoval said emphatically today he will veto a bill passed by Democrats in the Legislature that would allow school districts to use up to $300 million in bond reserve funds to rehabilitate older schools. He [...]

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Another nail in the coffin?

This does not sound promising at all.

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His voice will be missed

Joe Bageant has died. From December.

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“The thought that we could just do what needs to be done to make it happen never passes their lips.”

I keep waiting for the pendulum to swing back, even a bit, because right now I am petrified. Full stop. I’ve got a husband who works for a local school district. We don’t know if his job, let alone his pension will survive. I work in an industry that is in constant change. No one can [...]

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We’re off to the science fair

The Western Nevada Regional Science & Engineering Fair.  Lawlor Events Center, 9am until noon today. In 2010 over 1,000 Projects and Inventions were exhibited at the fair (12 Nevada Counties, over 110 different public, private, charter and parochial elementary, middle and high schools) representing students from Ely to Zephyr Cove, and Gerlach to Minden. When we [...]

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