by Dennis Myers
ThiS Modern World
by tom tomorrow
Have you ever sung karaoke? Asked at the Yellow Submarine, 920 Holman Way, Sparks. Emma Crowe Sandwich maker
At El Cortez with my friend Jessie. There was not a lot of people there, luckily. We sang “Rich Girl” by Hall and Oates, badly.
Kalah O’Rear Sandwich maker
I sang at The Point, and I sang “These Boots Are Made for Walking” by Nancy Sinatra. It was awesome. It was really fun. It probably helped because I had a couple of drinks in me.
Cawnie Frakes Sandwich maker
Thanks a bunch, Jeb. No.
I sang Black Sabbath, and it ruled. I did it at the Cal-Neva. Probably I think I did “Fairies Wear Boots.” The audience loved it because it’s awesome. Who doesn’t like Black Sabbath?
Never mind that building a Reno equivalent of Main In his run-up to the Republican presidential nomination Interior, also known as the Stewart Udall Building, which in 1968, Richard Nixon campaigned in a number of states occupies five acres in D.C., might finally be one way of and often found vice presidents in them. During a visit getting the Reno airport to move to Stead. to Nevada, for instance, he said Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt Never mind that other markets are already lining might be a likely vice presidential candidate. The notion was absurd, given Laxalt’s mere two years as governor of a up for consideration. “May we recommend Heppner, Boardman or Hermiston?” editorialized the East small state with poor quality of life and an outlaw reputaOregonian. “Certainly those cities are at the fore of tion. So were the candidacies of numerous other local some of the West’s most important land and resources Republican officials around the country semi-anointed by Nixon, but it made for good pampering of the various local issues moving forward. And we’d love to see the property market and building boom favorites in the states he visited. that comes with all those high-paying Last week on a visit to Nevada, How to neuter federal jobs.” Republican presidential candidate No, what concerns us is that this is Jeb Bush tried a variant of that ploy, the Interior an underhanded way of deemphasizing suggesting the headquarters of the U.S. the functions and missions of the Department of the Interior be moved to Department Department of the Interior in the guise the other side of the country from D.C., of doing the opposite. perhaps to Reno. Moving the Department 2,595 miles from the poliOr Denver. cymaking and budgeting of D.C. to Reno is no way to Or Salt Lake City. enhance its influence. It’s a way to diminish it. The same Whereupon, news stories speculating on the impact of goes for the other putative destinations for the Udall moving the Interior Department appeared in Reno. Building. And Denver. Other candidates, like Rand Paul, may be signaling And Salt Lake City. to the Republican base their hostility to public lands by Never mind that Interior agencies in Nevada have in hanging around with Cliven Bundy. Jeb Bush does it the past been bombed, its employees threatened. by proposing a “solution” to a non-existent problem— Never mind that the notion of moving a 70,000-person putting the Interior Department somewhere it will have cabinet department around like a chess piece is absurd. little influence. Or that the arrival of its workforce would cause a housing But he is also signaling that hostility to all other crunch in Reno the likes of which the city has never seen, exhaust its sewer plant capacity, generate traffic congestion Nevadans, too, the ones who polls suggest are in the majority—the supporters of public lands. And they won’t that would make life miserable, and leave everyone short forget when the general election comes. Ω of water. OPINION
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ART OF THE STATE
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Jessica Imus Sandwich maker
Yes, I have, usually at my house. I have Karaoke parties. And my favorite to do is “Brandy” by Looking Glass. That and Ginuwine—“Pony.” Cawnie and I will do that together. Karaoke’s always a good time at our house. No one’s really making fun of anyone else, so that’s always good. I don’t know if I’ve done it in public. Not for a real long time.
Tony Flamm Sewing machine repair person
No, I don’t care for that kind of music. I’ve heard other guys do it, but I don’t do it.
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