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DENNIS MYERS
Against the Grain


Saying it doesn't make it so
Many years ago I reluctantly accompanied a friend to a class to humiliate myself by learning Jazzercise. When we arrived at the community center where the class was being held, we had to sign a form at the counter holding the center harmless if anything happened to us while we were on the property. My friend, a legal researcher, said as she signed it, "It has no legal effect, so go ahead and sign it."

The king of Carson City conflicts
Republican state Sen. Warren Hardy was initially advised to recuse himself from voting on the final leg of the billion-dollar tax hike because a member of the board of directors for the organization he heads had an interest in the legislation. But Democrat Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford's conflicts of interest dwarf anything even remotely attributed to Sen. Hardy.


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A tale of two cities
Memorial Day in Washington, and geese swimming in the great reflecting pool that reflects the Washington Monument or the Lincoln Memorial, depending on where you are standing, and busloads of tourists pulled up to the curbs. Heroic architecture everywhere, bas-relief sculptures of heroes, men on pedestals, monuments to Fidelity and Sacrifice and Devotion, and a milling crowd of people, many of whom are hot and irritable and dazed with tedium.










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