Friday May 11, 2007
Our "No BS" Daily News Roundup
Local
Governor Gibbons, that's no mean feat!
A recent poll has shown that Nevada governor Jim Gibbons is even less popular than President Bush. Which is kind of like losing to your grandmother at arm wrestling. A whopping 28 percent of Silver State voters have a "favorable" view of The Gov. Which, when you think about how scientific these polls are, could mean anything from they think he's doing a good job to they like the way he parts his hair. At the other end of the spectrum, 1 (as in, one) percent of voters think he's doing an excellent job, which LasVegasWeekly.com interprets this way: Of the few people dumb enough to stop and answer polls, who are themselves from the minority pool of citizens who actually vote, only one in a hundred is disturbed enough to be enthusiastic about how our state is being run. Our advanced statistical analysis tells us that there may still be hope.
National
That other news source, The New York Times, reports that highway debris has become a major cause of accidents in California. Items that have been doing the damage apparently include: "[sinks], mattresses, aluminum ladders, sofas, buckets." Which makes it official that all of California is turning into one big mall. The relevance for Nevadans? Well, we can feel comfortable with the fact that we're not the pigs that our neighbors to the left are. But at the same time, we're in imminent danger of becoming so: just depends which way the wind blows. President Bush: I think we have another border patrol issue brewing here.
Commentary
It was supposed to be the "fight that saves boxing." The Golden Boy versus the Bad Boy. The toughest fight ticket in Vegas boxing history because it was a bout that really meant something. But after watching the De La Hoya-Mayweather handbag-carrying exhibition, we at LasVegasWeekly.com would rather watch a bunch of Canadian elementary kids try their hand at curling than go through another farce like this. Okay, it wasn't the worst fight in history. But face it: it was pretty damn dull. And when the savages who first dreamt up the sport and wrote up their three rules for the ring, they didn't have boredom in mind. No, no, no. Blood, action, blood, entertainment, and blood were there priorities. Not "clever defense," "smart tactics," and 90 days of lead-up hype. Boxing's a dead fishy. It's deader than Saddam. It's gone soft: gotten indolent, bloated and smug like most of the American public that doesn't give a damn about it -- or much else -- anymore. And it's time that the rest of us all got that through our skulls and stopped wasting good time and money watching mirror images of our apathetic selves do a tango in the square circle for mega millions. Bring on the curling kids!