The Siren on Twitter
Would you like to follow The Sin City Siren on Twitter? You can! It’s part of my slow progression toward updating The Siren and offering new features on the blog. (Hey, I’m basically a one-woman show here.) More to come!
Public transit or Road Rage vacation?
I’m recovering from a bit of a sinus/chest infection and the medicine-head has got me thinking about mass transit. You see, I got this nifty prescription cough medicine. It works wonders, but it’s so powerful I’m not allowed to drive while taking it (something about a mild narcotic in it). So this has got me…
Governor stops hearing to text
As if getting in trouble for texting a mistress on a government-issued cell phone (and now getting a divorce while governor) weren’t bad enough, Gov. Jim Gibbons just can’t help himself when it comes to texting. While giving testimony on his energy bill, he stops to view and deal with a text! Watch it for…
The Bitter Log
This post is brought to you by my best friend Joshua Todd: Rick Warren devotee, 1950’s marriage counselor, and anti-feminist Martha Peace has some words of wisdom for all you gals out there. Don’t know about Martha Peace yet…well check out MotherJones.com. Among many suggestions — like praying for your husband because he must live…
The doh! of texting
Wow – what news to come home to! GW Jr., aka Gibbons, takes things to a whole new low level with the texting scandal. I’m no technical guru, but I think the first rule of texting is to not do it with your mistress on gadgets that can be subpeoned. And is his device government-owned?…
You know we’ve got to find a way
Here we are again at Earth Day (officially April 22). And I can’t help thinking — What a difference Al Gore has made. That little Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and a little thing called a Nobel prize add a surprising amount of clout. I seem to recall that sometime in the middle of the…
Wake up and smell the landfill
It should come as no surprise to regular Siren readers that I’m a CFL convert. I am an unapologetic environmentalist and like spreading the word on simple tips and ways to live a more eco-friendly life (check out the Eco Stuff section) while still feeling comfortable and not appearing to be a raging hippie (sorry…
Green is the word
If you haven’t put the Nevada Conservation League blog on your regular Internet reading list, I really recommend it. Erin does a great job of finding good nuggets of information and giving you everything you need to do something with the info you’ve just gotten. Take yesterday’s post. In one post she talked about bans…
Electronic voting machines: Friendly technology or doom machines?
Can vote tampering be all the easier with electronic voting machines? Absolutely, according to the New York Times Magazine cover story from Sunday. Since Nevada has the only machines with a paper trail (and we saw accusations of voter tampering with machines in Ohio during the last presidential election), the threat is real. So what…
Looky what we did
Hey kids! Just wanted to point out that there’s a couple of new tabs — Eco Stuff and Simple Gifts — at the top of the blog. These are basically slightly updated mash-ups of some popular Siren posts. Simple Gifts is a more year-round version of A Holiday Shopping List with a Purpose. And Eco…
