We’ve been on a Quick Hit diet, and we’re wasting away to normal! Somebody bake up some hits. Quick!

• So the murder/attempted murder trial of accused courthouse sniper Darren Mack is being moved to Clark County, to avoid conflicts in Reno.

That’s good. He should get a fair trial here. It’s not like anything ever happened in Las Vegas to tarnish the proud “Mack” name.

Oh, wait…

Bonus connect the dots: Mack lawyer David Chesnoff was law partners with Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, who got Darren Mack cousin Michael Mack appointed to the City Council for a tenure marked by greed, stupidity and more greed.

• What does it take to bring U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic minority leader, together with U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, the Republican front-runner for governor? A good cause, like lobbyist Harvey Whittemore’s Coyote Springs project, a sprawling 240,000-resident city in the desert where humans will co-exist peacefully with desert tortoises.

Government regulators usually are “throwing spears at” developers, Reid said. “But this here truly is a lovefest.”

Indeed. Only Reid was saying that like it was a good thing.

• Atlantic City casinos closed? Because mandatory Casino Control Commission agents were furloughed by Gov. Jon Corzine in a budget dispute with the New Jersey Legislature? Because New Jersey regulations — which once referred to gambling as “evil” — require them to be present at all times when gambling is taking place?

Thank God that could never happen here.

• And finally today, one of the men who allegedly paid Clark County Recorder Frances Deane to buy thousands of public records (and apparently got ripped off in the process) told a preliminary hearing Deane’s alleged motive. “I’m not going to get re-elected so it’s time for me to get a piece like everyone else,” she allegedly said, according to testimony from Joseph Gekko.

There’s no joke here, other than the one that’s now on the voters for not paying enough attention and electing Deane in the first place. There’s just no jail term long enough for the likes of her…

Hey, kids, have you seen Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson’s newest ad slamming gubernatorial rival state Sen. Dina Titus? We saw it this weekend, most notably while watching The History Channel’s excellent series, The Presidents. (Our favorite: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with John F. Kennedy running a close second.)

Anyway, the ad depicts Titus on the floor of the state Senate, in ominous black and white, as a female voice tells us she voted for telemarketers, insurance companies and a twice on a 300 percent pension increase for herself.

Hmmm. Sounds bad. Only the “telemarketer” vote was to allow DMV to release statistical data to universities and such, not to people selling vitamins and water filtration systems. And of the two votes on the pension increase of 1989, one was to repeal it. (By the way, 300 percent sounds a lot more damning than its value in real dollars: $25 per year of service versus $100.) Nonetheless, she voted for it, and it’s fair game.

But especially with the last line — in which Gibson’s camp says Titus is not representing “you,” — it’s clear that Gibson is trying to claim his mantle as a man of the people. And it’s well-deserved. Consider:

Like most of you, Gibson is an attorney, and a wealthy one.

Like most of you, Gibson has family political connections and a network that has seen him elected mayor of Henderson.

Like most of you, Gibson is friends with big developers like Tony Marnell, the wonderful man who gave us the Rio hotel-casino. We’d bet if most any of you called him up and asked, he’d write checks totaling $150,000 to you, just like he did for Gibson’s campaign!

Like most of you, registering as a “Democrat” doesn’t mean you have to get all crazy about it. You were probably invited to attend President George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration, too, just like Gibson. And although the 2000 election was hotly disputed and very likely stolen, you, like Gibson, probably could put that behind you to hang out at an inaugural ball with the new “president.”

While Titus was off mixing with rich, powerful people like university students and teaching political science, Gibson was standing up for a local small business — Nevada Power — when it was under siege by a group of powerful people we call “voters.”

Working for just peanuts — $527,000, what most of us make on a good week in Vegas — Gibson defended poor, besieged Nevada Power by giving the company advice about how to thwart the “voters,” and defeat a ballot initiative that asked whether the Southern Nevada Water Authority should take over the power company.

Although he fought valiantly, he lost, as the special interest “voters” mustered 57 percent in “yes” votes. But the joke was on them! It was an advisory question only! No effect!

While Titus was attending elitist Democratic functions with radicals known as “party members,” Gibson was serving on the board of an upstart little project known as the Las Vegas Monorail. Although it only had support from some casinos, a long-serving county commissioner and a network of regular folks that some mean-spirited detractors call the “Mormon mafia,” the monorail managed to get up and running anyway, with Gibson serving as a board member.

And when the founder of the monorail, Bob Broadbent passed away, and months lapsed without strong leadership, Gibson volunteered himself. Taking a salary of just $200,000 plus per year, and maybe a little extra stipend on the side, Gibson led the monorail through its most difficult time, in which it technically did not function. Once it was up and running, he gently departed to offer his servant leadership to the voters as a candidate for governor.

So, clearly, Titus is not representing “you.” Especially not if “you” are like Gibson.

UPDATE: This just in … well, actually, this was “just in” back in 1989, but it’s “just in” today in the sense that somebody we know “just” called “in” to remind us that there were actually three votes on the pension increase: One to pass it, two to override then-Gov. Bob Miller’s veto and three to repeal it in a later special session. So, Titus actually did vote twice to approve the pension increase, as Gibson’s ad indicates, and then a third vote to repeal it. Our apologies.