User profile: Launce

Thank you, Dina Titus. Two facts that rarely get repeated, but should be: America has among the lowest, if not the lowest, quality health care in the industrialized world. We had the most expensive by anyone's honest measure.
Uniquely in this, the country that I love: Giving the insurance industry a monopolistic control of life and death is not working, my friends on both the left and the right.

Great job, Tavares. The tragedy is that this did not have to happen. People reported the threat to the Mount Charleston Blue and other species years ago. There was essentially no response from federal and county agencies - except, perhaps, a lackluster program to monitor their disappearance.
The Endangered Species Act is supposed to be the law of the land, but when developers and their enablers - the county, federal and state governments, the Southern Nevada Water Authority - are in charge, we will see many, many species and biological diversity extinguished. Those who make policy for those agencies, and the profiteering interests who direct them, simply do not share the values of most Americans - that is, that unique species, and the natural world, have value: scientific, aesthetic and, most profoundly, roles in the complex interplay of life in this world.

I have to admit that although I have avidly read and listened to his music all my life, I had never seen Mr. Zimmerman live. I went without high expectations; I wanted to catch a view of history while I still could.
I was pleasantly surprised. The new sound system at the Joint was up to the task, and Charlie Sexton, the virtuoso picker, really rocked the show. I was surprised, too, by the horn accompaniment on a couple of the early songs. A lot of contemporary songwriters could still learn a lot from Bob.

Song list:

1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob on keyboard)
2. The Man In Me (Bob center stage on harp, Donnie on trumpet)
3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob on guitar)
4. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Bob on keyboard, Donnie on trumpet)
5. Spirit On The Water (Bob on keyboard and harp)
6. Forgetful Heart (Bob center stage on harp, Donnie on violin)
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob center stage on harp)
8. Beyond The Horizon (Bob on keyboard and harp)
9. Cold Irons Bound (Bob center stage on harp)
10. Tryin' To Get To Heaven (Bob on keyboard and harp)
11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard)
12. Po' Boy (Bob on keyboard)
13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard)
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage on harp)

(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard)
16. Jolene (Bob on keyboard)
17. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on keyboard)

Great story, Kristen!

The big builders, the developers and the financiers have ripped off, bullied and bought the public for so long, we don't even realize we're being taken. Good for the unions for trying to balance the scale of justice!