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Unless
otherwise noted, columns originate in the Daily
Sparks, Nev., Tribune.
There was no 12-25-2005 column.
High
Slimes and Misdemeanors
12-18-2005
Paying
Proper Respect
Speaking for the Grateful Dead
12-11-2005
The
Old Rattlesnake Apple Blues
12-4-2005
Fire
at Will and Whack the Messenger
Dec. 1 Reno City Council agenda drips with irony
11-27-2005
Power
to the People
Sparks Citizens Committee hearing on Charter cable franchise
11-20-2005
Blaming
the Victim: Dubya dances while consumers cringe
11-13-2005
Off
with their heads!
And
if that doesn't work, cut off their thumbs.
11-6-2005
A
Nevada Day Tea Party for DC
10-30-2005
Brave
New Crystal Ball
10-23-2005
The
Lost Doctor: Victim of Medieval America
10-16-2005
Sub-minimum
wage work widespread in Nevada
Special to Johnny Gunn's NevadaObserver.com
10-15-2005
Good
Friday: Wherein the Barbwire foments a fox paw of international diplomacy
A
sincere apology to my old friend Condoleeza
10-9-2005
Early
Rushes and Timely Reviews
10-2-2005
Profitable
PR Painfully Pumped: Energetic gas from BigOil
Plus:
Perkins perks up for potential congressional step up — Barbwire exclusive
WEB EDITION BONUS: A liberal-conservative nonsensical consensus
9-25-2005
Amoral
moralists pontificate as parishes perish
9-18-2005
Sunday
of many sorrows
9-11-2005
Deadly
Spin in the oil slicks of New Orleans
9-4-2005
Media
Howlers
A
short attention span means never having to say you're sorry
8-28-2005
Patriot
Games
Sparks City Council considers rebellion against
U.S. Patriot Act
8-21-2005
UPDATE 8-22-2005: Anti-Patriot Act resolution passes unanimously. Full report
hereinabove.
Getting
Focused
The latest on the rigged consumer games of gasoline
and cable TV price fixing
Plus: an old colleague reports from his home in a Gaza Strip refugee camp
8-14-2005
Payback
Time: America gets the bill for her sins
8-7-2005
White
Party rules
Las Vegas CityLife 8-4-2005
DIVORCED
BEDMATES: AFL-CIO Going Bananas in Splitsville
National trauma could have been avoided right here
in Nevada
7-31-2005
Ballot
Boxing 2005
7-24-2005
BOHICA
Time
Corporate
welfare runs amuck
Carson City government turns city hall into a gambling hall, potentially sharing
tax revenue with auto dealer
7-17-2005
Wholly
Noise
Will
the Sparks City Council make a sound decision?
7-10-2005
Happy
Co-Dependence Day
Hurts
so good!
7-3-2005
Tom
Cruise's Earful
6-26-2005
Vicente
Fox Vindicated
6-19-2005
The
Ragpicker God
6-12-2005
Lemming
Cliff Notes
6-5-2005
The
Enemy Within
5-29-2005
Go
Trust Yourself
5-22-2005
Tribune, 5-27-05 Comstock Chronicle
Conservative
Welfare Reform — Working Welfare Queens may lose 53-year free ride
Harrah's
loses a round to fired bartender, plus your chance to be in pictures
5-15-2005 Tribune, 5-20-05 Comstock Chronicle
Softshoes
of the Fisherman
5-8-2005
Tribune, 5-13-05 Comstock Chronicle
Eulogy
for UNR — A fatal future fable for Mayday 2005
5-1-2005
Tribune, 5-6 Comstock Chronicle
The
Finger of God — Pope Jokes and Popes as Jokes
4-24-2005 Tribune
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You
got trouble, folks, right here in Virginia City — Apologies
to Meredith Willson and Prof. Harold Hill
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CENSORED ON THE COMSTOCK: The April 24 column, linked above, was exorcised from the 4-29-2005 Comstock Chronicle because of religious prejudice in the Virginia City community and on the part of the newspaper's editor. I suppose the three previous installments questioning church policy and theology were one thing, but pope jokes were something else again. In almost two decades of writing for the various owners of the Sparks Tribune and more recently the Comstock Chronicle, this is the first time an entire piece has been purged because of its content. (I have had a dirty word or two changed to #@*&!% on rare occasion, depending on the personal hangups of the higherups, but this is something completely different.) The wordburning waxes exceedingly ironic given that the Tribune has since 1988 published the widest range of opinion of any newspaper in the state, large or small. To this day, we ink the weekly opinions of an avowed socialist and an overt racist. I like having them around — they make me look reasonable. Nonetheless, given the voodoo vagaries of codified superstition, I'm the one who got banned in the Sausalito of Nevada. Go figger. So if you are overly sensitive to pope jokes, read no further. You have been warned. Alleluia. UPDATE: READ THE LETTER FROM THE CHURCH WHICH RAN INSTEAD. UPDATE
9-11-2005: In addition to the Barbwire, the writings of legendary Comstock
resident Travus T. Hipp and the world class cartoons of Dan O'Neil and
his "Odd Bodkins" are no longer available to Comstock Chronicle
readers. |
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"God
is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh" —
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
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37
cents away from God
4-17-2005
Committee
Carpet-Bombs Ballardini
Special
Internet Extra Edition
4-16-2005
Crunch
time for bears, birds and bunnies
Special Internet Extra Edition
4-12-2005
Selling
God
4-10-2005
Care
vs. Bears, Cable vs. Consumers
Special Internet Extra Edition
4-7-2005
Shoes
of the Fisherman
4-3-2005
Guns
and Butter at School
3-27-2005
Harvest
of Tears
3-20-2005
Beer:
Satan's Brew
3-13-2005
Human
Majesty and Misery
3-6-2005
The
Last Picture Show: Adios, Tom Stoneburner
2-27-2005
The
Zen Buddhist Carwash
2-20-2005
Send
in the clowns
2-13-2005
An
edited, slightly-Vegasized version from Las Vegas CityLife, 2-17-2005
Sex,
Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll TV
2-6-2005
Red
meat for conspiracy theories
1-30-2005
Cynicism
is never having to say you're sorry
1-23-2005
The
West Wing of the Mind
1-16-2005
The
cold nature of fire
1-9-2005
God's
Slow-Motion Reel
1-2-2005
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