Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 14, 2023 in Blog, Las Vegas, Politics, Rants and Raves |
While other states squash women’s reproductive rights and outlaw access to abortion, Nevada should move swiftly into the void and become a sanctuary and a safe haven for pro-choice practitioners and advocates.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 13, 2023 in Blog, Essays, Politics |

AMERICA’S POLITICAL GERONTOCRACY
It’s long past due that we have a serious national conversation about age. More specifically, we need to face hard facts about age and leadership. We have, in effect, become a gerontocracy — a country governed by old people.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 8, 2023 in Blog, Essays, Politics |

THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL SECURITY
It’s time to raise the Social Security retirement age. Here’s why:
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 6, 2023 in Blog, Essays, Personal |
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?
A.K.A. CHANGING THE HABITS OF A LIFETIME
Random thoughts for Thursday, 5 April 2023.
“Some things had been a lifetime habit, things I engaged in for 50 years. Enthusiastically so. Now, they’re inconsequential memories of a bygone era.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 5, 2023 in Blog, Essays |
“If someone were to propose (The Book of Revelation) as a real prediction, let alone to actually believe it, they would probably be held for psychological evaluation.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 4, 2023 in Blog, Essays, Politics, Rants and Raves |
I’ve received several messages lately asking why I’m not writing about the Trump indictment. That’s a fair question, especially given that I’ve written and posted extensively over the past seven years on the overflowing toilet that is everything connected to Trump.
Trump was, is, always has been, and always will be–an overflowing toilet. Disgusting and horrible, and yet we couldn’t peel our eyes away, and we certainly couldn’t ignore the horror.
Until now.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 2, 2023 in Blog, Essays, Travel |

AN UNCONVENTIONAL CONVENTION — EDITION 217
Fill in the blank on the following question:
People won’t believe me when I say I’ve never been to __________ .
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Apr 1, 2023 in Blog, Essays |

This is wonderful.
Kudos to Vogue for placing Apo Whang-Od on the magazine’s cover. At age 106, she is the oldest person ever to grace any cover of Vogue.
Perhaps the lesson here is that beauty is beautiful, in all of its forms. Beauty has no expiration date.
I love this.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 31, 2023 in Blog, Essays |

THE VOLATILITY OF COLLECTING THINGS
AN UNCONVENTIONAL CONVENTION — EDITION 216
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Mar 30, 2023 in Blog, Essays, Las Vegas, Music and Concert Reviews |

“Bill Fayne was the musical maestro of giving. He took every gig he could get, paying or free, just to spread his sweet gospel of sound.”
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