If you’re pissed about the budget crisis, here’s your chance to sound off. The Legislative Commission’s Budget Subcommittee is going to be reviewing sections of the budget with a fine-tooth-comb in a series of meetings starting this week. These meetings are open to the public! Consider this your Call to Service. You can attend the…
Do we really have to talk about this? I feel like I need some therapy first. I like The Gleaner’s take the best: … [T]he proposals unveiled by the nation’s most unbalanced governor are not the result of an informed and responsible policy analysis. They are what happens when a self-obsessed emotionally unbalanced and ultimately…
So, the new feminist dust-up is about the Obama cover of Ms. Magazine. It’s gone so far as to become a headline story on CNN this morning — with the familiar trope of trotting out two competing feminist women to duke it out. The Question seems to be two-fold: 1. Is it okay for a…
I’m feeling rather uninspired lately. Why bother? Everything just feels shitty. Is it the shitty economy? In particular, is it the bleak outlook for Las Vegas’ (and vicariously Nevada’s) economy? Is it hulking, half-finished, man-eating City Center blotting out the sun? Is it post-holiday humdrum? Is it this dastardly cold that is camping in my…
What a fucked-up year it’s been … Best day of 2008: Nov. 4. Yes. We. Can! Other than Obama’s victory, this could be objectively viewed as the Worst Year on Record in America (Bloomberg) Impeach Governor Assclown “GW Jr.” Gibbons already Heartless doctors at Endoscopy Center expose 40,000+ to deadly diseases because of greed and…
Please enjoy a guest post by Julianna Ormsby, lobbyist for the Nevada Women’s Lobby. (Full disclosure: I’m on the women’s lobby’s steering committee.) Left behind in ’09 No, not “Left Behind”, the apocalyptic series of doom starring Mike Seaver. This entry, unfortunately, refers to those people who stand to be left behind in the coming…
Today’s guest post is from local Planned Parenthood’s Annette Magnus: What a difference a day makes! When I think of this very popular phrase a few dates come to mind that have made/will make a big difference to women’s health. One date is November 4, 2008. That date has so much significance to all of…
Thank God for John Stewart.
As you know, I’m on the steering committee for the Nevada Women’s Lobby. I set up a facebook page for the group yesterday. If you’re on facebook, please check it out and become a fan! We also have a causes page on facebook, so be sure to join that as well! 🙂
The need for equality doesn’t take a holiday. I know it’s a busy time, but this is important: ** Day Without Gay — Dec. 10 — nationwide: Gays and allied supporters of equality and marriage for all are encouraged to “call in gay” as a show of the impact of the LGBT community across all…
The Sin City Siren 