The Legislature moved some deck chairs around so now Nevada can resume sinking into infrastructural, educational and economic oblivion quietly without all the headlines.
In a particularly odious element of the proceedings, the gambling industry, led apparently by one of bitchy little area megalomaniac Sheldon Adelson's minions (no, not the governor but another one; Adelson wanted results) made sure to cover its own ass. Again. Whatever.
But the truly startling developments out of Carson City and environs of late involve first, the notion that Jim Gibbons has something to say about policy, and second, the confirmation that the two top staffers for the philandering imbecile are the latest to abandon ship and retire from the "Gibbons administration."
No, there's nothing startling or frankly even interesting about those things in and of themselves. The startling thing is how the media reports policy statements Gibbons makes or movement among his staff as if there is actually a cohesive entity called the "Gibbons administration" and that the aforementioned fiction is motivated or even influenced by rational thought either for good or ill. What's up with that? The only thing of any consequence where Jim Gibbons is concerned is his many hilarious and humiliating scandals. All the rest of is just a bunch of noise.
At times like these -- which is to say on a Saturday morning with errands to run and chores to do -- the Gleaner likes to save time by self-plagiarism:
In the course of reading newspaper stories about the antics of the nation's worst governor, it is disappointing and frankly tiresome to see reporters repeatedly seeking color commentary from consultants of one party or another or analysis from political science professors. If one had a broken leg, after all, one would not seek a diagnosis from a political scientist or a campaign industry consultant. One would see a doctor. Similarly, if any truly useful insight into the administration of Nevada's current governor is going to be rendered by external observers, that expertise would most likely reside within the psychoanalytical community.
That was published seven months ago and the eleven people who saw it perhaps thought it was a joke. No, that'd be Gibbons.






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