Miniglean

• As Gomer might say, surprise, surprise, surprise -- Nevada House Republicans Jim Gibbons and Jon Porter voted for $70 billion more in tax cuts for the rich, and next-to-zero tax cuts for everybody else. Nevada's only Democrat in the House, Shelley Berkley, voted against the Republican scheme to give the fat cats one more tasty treat before the GOP loses control of the House and the gravy train comes to an overdue, well-deserved, screeching halt. House vote, Reuters
• The UNLV president's search committee recommends William Lennox, the military guy. And just the other day His Lordship was caught predicting it would be the Michigan guy. Time was when we would have been skeptical of putting the university into the hands of a military man, us being lefty geezers and all. But these days, it's the military guys who make sense, and the civilians in charge of them who run everything into the ground -- or order it blown to smithereens, as the case may be. We'll see if he takes the job, assuming the board of regents follows the committee's lead and offers it to him. KLAS
• A Canadian prescription drug website of Nevada's very own is now online. Happy medicating. NVDems
• To heck with representative democracy; let's just do it direct. Or so says a candidate for Congress in CD2. That's right, if elected, a guy named Daniel Rosen will vote in the House of Representatives as dictated by a "state-of-the-art digital voting system that will enable citizens in his district to control his votes in Congress." No, it wouldn't be any worse than the representation CD2 has "enjoyed" for the last decade. And it'd probably be better than the representation the district might get from a couple of the Republicans who want that job.

Comments

[Homer Simpson]

The regents worship authority and are conservative and scared of the Lord High Chancellor, so they wanted someone to deal with him and figured a general can. Lennox should be fine. The only difference between the Lord High Chancellor and Donald Rumsfeld is that the Lord High Chancellor hasn't gotten anyone killed. But maybe it's time to change the LHC's nickname. How about General Disaster? General Confusion?