{"id":4424,"date":"2010-08-23T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T23:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2019-08-02T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:54:24","slug":"crazy-from-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/crazy-from-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy from the heat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the August sun beats upon our brains like a hammer on an anvil, it seems to be rendering us soft in the noggin. Reader kerr_mudgeon<\/strong> has aggregated a few instances, the pages of the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, which seems to cover Nevada<\/strong> better than do the hometown papers.<\/p>\n

Get felt up at McCarran<\/strong>. Those friendly TSA<\/strong> screeners\u00a0 at McCarran International Airport<\/strong> will get to know you even better by dint of copping full-body feels<\/a>. This is, if possible, even creepier than the X-ray scanner — also slated for Vegas deployment. Is there no humiliation to which Americans are unwilling to subject themselves in the name of “safety”? Our marketing motto should no longer be “What happens here …” but “Abandon all privacy ye who enter here.”<\/p>\n

Dopehead?<\/strong> Perhaps rural Silver State Judge Dave Gamble<\/strong> has been toking on a little “loco weed” lately. He ordered a pot dealer to write a term paper supportive of his (Gamble’s) cranky anti-medical-marijuana agenda. Medicinal pot is legal in Nevada, a fact which clearly chaps Gamble’s ass something fierce. At least the three-month due date is more than we got in college.<\/p>\n

Your tax dollars at work<\/strong>. Anyone who follows events out here through the national media is anywhere of the great confusion as to whether the “Battle-Born” state is pronounced Ne-VA-duh<\/em> or Ne-VAAAH-da<\/em>. People who use the latter tend to get ridiculed in these here parts. Lame-duck solon Harry Mortenson<\/strong> is preparing to ask the 2011 Legislature to sanction both pronunciations as acceptable. (Across the aisle, a colleague is suggesting Nevada’s tax structure be made more regressive than ever.) Just don’t let it get around that “Ne-VAH-duh” is a Spanish-influenced pronunciation, Harry. That’ll send the local jingoists pouring in the streets, howling for your blood.<\/p>\n

Gomes in, Ribis out<\/strong>. There’s faint glimmer of hope for Resorts Atlantic City<\/strong> now that Dennis Gomes<\/strong> has emerged as the preferred bidder<\/a>, edging out minority owner and current casino boss Nick Ribis<\/strong>. A former regulator, and Aztar Corp<\/strong>. and Cordish Gaming<\/strong> executive, Gomes is a slam-dunk for regulatory approval. With his extensive operational experience, he would appear to make Ribis redundant. Not to worry: Ribis continues to preside over Colony Capital<\/strong>‘s failing Atlantic City Hilton<\/strong>, meaning that his reign of error on the Boardwalk is far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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