National Laughingstock Department

Once again Nevada politicians don't have to try very hard to put themselves up to national ridicule. This time it isn't Gibbons or Ensign or Angle, but a Democrat who is so concerned about the pronunciation of the state he wants to put forward a resolution which would declare the incorrect pronunciation often used by easterners as "acceptable."

Meanwhile, the state is dying economically, with unemployment continuing to go through the roof.