• February 13, 2012

las vegas

During my sad tour of the endless half-abandoned Vegas “single family home developments,” I saw exactly ZERO political signs until this half-hearted falling-over Mitt Romney “lawn” sign. (It’s kind of stuck in some half-dead ground-cover plant surrounded by gravel. Las Vegas is about 42% stucco and 56% gravel. The rest of the city consists of [...]

While common press people and local pols subsisted on mysterious buffet-line chicken pucks and leftover iceberg lettuce in the debate’s freezing media warehouse, Big Bill Clinton was feasting on “four kinds of steak” specially prepared for him by chef Barry Dakake of the swank N9NE steakhouse. And the food wasn’t just for Bill! America’s beloved [...]

That about wraps it up, doesn’t it? If John Edwards’ campaign wasn’t sending furious emails to every reporter on Earth each time Barry or Hillary denied whatever it is they do with the corporates, you’d think these people did Ecstasy and decided to sit around the living room all night, intensely talking about how much [...]

Hooray, we’re here. There are about 500 people protesting for health care outside, and otherwise the Cashman Center is pretty much abandoned. Also, Wonkette’s filing desk is NEXT TO DAILY KOS AND HUFFINGTON POST AND MAYBE AOL … THIS WON’T STAND. We are going to look for some conservatives to sit by, because they’ll likely [...]

Still no nominees, right? Okay then, we’ll continue covering these damned caucuses and primaries. Tomorrow is Michigan’s primary, but it doesn’t really count except for a little bit, but only for the Republicans. (Michigan is always getting in trouble for screwing up the primaries.) And that’s why we’ll be in Nevada tomorrow. It’s time for [...]

Crybaby candidate Hillary Clinton, after spending five days in New Hampshire telling everyone how human and nice she was, went door to door in Las Vegas Thursday ripping on that 4-year-old hobo Barack Obama. She described his background as “a part-time state senator for a few years, and then he came to the Senate and [...]