Crazy Nevada

Nevada truckers go national

crazee-b. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:29:02 +0000

Brandon Hardy of Las Vegas was named the best professional truck driver in Nevada after winning the flatbed competition and receiving the highest overall score in the seven competing categories at the 2008 Nevada Truck Driving Championships in Reno. The annual event is sponsored by the Nevada Motor Transport Association, Inc. Read the complete masterpiece at [...]

Nevada: Betting on the West (Rocky Mountain News)

crazee-b. — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:02:48 +0000

Frank Morreale stands behind the glass counter and pats his holstered pistol - a Smith & Wesson .38 special. He likes it because it’s light and it hangs on his belt the way a cell phone might - both unobtrusive and useful. “Every time,” he said. “When Hillary Clinton announced she was running, I was swamped. [...]

Reno Man carries on Nevada tradition

cyberdouche — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:13:01 +0000

It made Mills Lane famous. It began Mike Tyson’s journey from star to laughing stock (”I’ll eat his children!”). It’s the ear bite. And it happened in Vegas, baby! Not to be outdone by it’s much bigger and richer brother to the south, Reno has entered the ear biting fray in a way that only Reno [...]

Gender equity jihad waged against state of Nevada

crazee-b. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:45:28 +0000

Tourism officials say the fallout has been dramatic It is viewed as a subversive reversal of America’s long-standing tradition of the subjugation of the feminine. We’re not talking oppression by chastity belts, corsets, pornography or glass ceilings. No, a new war was waged this week by a fathers’ rights group calling for an end to [...]

Bob on The River missing from Colorado River

crazee-b. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:53:28 +0000

Southern Nevada news media is hot on the trail today for a missing amateur UFO watcher, known by friends and townsfolk simply as “Bob on The River.” Bob was discovered to be missing after he and his comrades from Needles, Calif., just a stone’s throw south of Laughlin, Nev., each reported seeing an unidentified flying object [...]

BREAKING NEWS! Former UNR president fired from Baylor

crazee-b. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:11:48 +0000

In a shocking and unforeseen move, Baylor University’s Board of Regents fired Baylor president, John Lilley. The action came on the heels of woefully unfounded allegations that Lilley’s leadership was creating tension among Baylor faculty. This is also after Lilley’s tenure at the University of Nevada, Reno, where, as president, he successfully raised morale, increased fund-raising efforts [...]

Sparks earns yet another honor

cyberdouche — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:38:10 +0000

Nevada once had the designation of being called “The Mississippi of the West.” Some years ago, Nevada was considered a pretty racist place, complete with the fact that Las Vegas Strip entertainers like Sammy Davis, Jr. were not allowed to stay in the hotels in which they played due to their skin color. It’s not [...]

Ely newspaper publishes editorial cartoon

crazee-b. — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:45:44 +0000

ELY–The fine newspaper tradition of publishing political cartoons as editorial commentary also has a noted history in White Pine County’s The Ely Times. In an opinion column published last week, Times editor Kent Harper explains his cartooning process. Harper, it appears, has a strong local following. Avid reader Richard Jacobson writes: “I am a fan of Ely, The [...]

Reno man searches for “pot dealers in Reno” on Google, finds nothing, gets beer instead

Wolfy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:24:02 +0000

Reno, NV - Local man, George Scripts, was looking to score a few blunts on the evening of Saturday July 13th, but couldn’t find any useful drug dealer contact information on the internet. “I typed in a million different combinations, but couldn’t find a phone number or an address or even a picture of a [...]

Reno 911!—the real reason Vegas hates Reno

crazee-b. — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:52:03 +0000

LAS VEGAS—In what came as a surprise to the world’s most respected Nobel Peace Prize winners, University of Nevada, Las Vegas researchers released a study today that definitely proves a phenomenon that, until now, was a mystery. The scientists, at a briefing held on one of the campus’s dozens of lush, green lawns, announced that they [...]