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BARBWIRE
by
ANDREW BARBANO

The latest installment appears at the top of the list. Links to special reports at bottom.

2001: From A Space Odyssey to Bonfire of Banalities

High holy days, dark enlightenment and the 90% Almighty

How to get your development project approved in Nevada

Starbucks, General Motors & Sen. McCarran's armpit mirage

George Harrison and Nevada British surrealism

Goat polo in the High Desert Outback of the American Dream

Britney Spears, Ashley Rose Kisman and the Bridge of San Luis Rey

The wages of sin plant and fertilize the grapes of wrath

Here comes the judge — off the bench and off the wall

A pox spawned of rage has descended on all our houses

Worthless career advice from the high desert workers paradise

The Inaugural American Pie-in-the-Face War Profiteering Awards

A personal message from an assassin who worked for you and me

Nostradamus, Bob Dylan, Ugly Americans and Usama bin Laden

Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are absolutely dead to rights

Lord Vader, literary lights and the light saber that failed

Labor Day 2001 — Fathers & sons and life's hard transitions

Words can kill — tough talk and the death of Officer John Bohach

Misreading the clear message about what kids want

From political dens of iniquity to the holy of holies

The cocaine casino collapse
Reno News & Review 8-9-2001

He who ignores the doofusses is bound to become one

Plucking the G-Strings of Guinn, Goodman, Griffin and GayBC.com

Dawn of the dead -- papering over the cost of dying

Beijing 2008 -- America enroute to the glue factory

Character assassination's cool if bad character gets hit

When corporate welfare becomes an Olympic sport

SPECIAL EDITION -- Chariots of Fire

The news you'll never know you needed to know

The 2001 Bare Buns Madonna Whassup? Awards

Somehow, kissing us afterward is no longer enough

Townsend and Guinn sell out Nevada ratepayers

SPECIAL WEB EDITION (6-1-2001) — Heavy hitters slug out
new deregulation attempt in state senate

UPDATE (Aug. 13, 2003) — Arnold Schwarzenegger, due in Reno Oct. 9, 2003,
met secretly with Enron's Ken Lay in 2001.
(MORE)

Deficient as usual, Nevada's mark of the beast is 661

High Noon at the Ledge -- Your power bill up for grabs

Dubya bulletins and creative corruption @VoteBay.gov

The Silver State -- a suicidally cruel and unusual place

Lessons in Leadership: lasting legacies and laughable lapses

Dudley Do-Right, Snidely Whiplash and Canadian Mounties

Power games, rape and pillage at the public trough

Getting down and dirty with Jesus on Palm Sunday

Butt-ugly reality for spring-fevered April Fools

Fumbling, flailing and falling toward fiscal failure

Gov. Guinn: Show some courage and show me the money

Cutting up auto parts, body parts & corporate parts

Happy trails to Gene Evans, Jack Evans and journalism

The energy crisis shuck-jive hustle hall of fame

Kilowatts convert conservative cowboys to socialism

Casinos: Deregulate electricity but not employees

Moral tics, jiggly chicks and dirty pics at Wal-Mart

Dubya and Dudley: Compassionate road to nowhere

Dismal democracy under Dubya the Dumber

Steppenwolf, wooden stakes and Wal-Mart

Dubya and Dudley deliver lotsa laughs

Gov. Dudley Do-Right's Greatest Hits

PUMPING PROFITS
Barbwire Oilogopoly Archive



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© 1982-2005 Andrew Barbano

Andrew Barbano is a Reno-based member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413,
the union of Mark Twain. A 33-year Nevadan, he is a writer, media maven and editor/producer of several websites. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune since 1988.

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