If you’re like us, you’re ready for the weekend. So we won’t keep you long, just time enough for some ultra-Quick Hits.

– Another day, another stupid city of Las Vegas ordinance clogs the courts and wastes everybody’s time. Gee, it would be so nice if somebody, a lawyer perhaps, could get elected to the council and put an end to his nonsense.

– Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons has a creepy habit of referring to himself with the royal "we." (Only we at Various Things & Stuff are allowed to do that, although technically the "we" refers to our large staff of researchers, interns and gnomes.)

Gibbons does know he got elected governor, and not king, right? Oh, and despite the headline, the story doesn’t tell you who will be on the new governor/king’s team. Damn bait and switch.

– We do, however, know the Legislative leadership teams, and there are few surprises. State Sen. Bill Raggio, the king of the North, will return once more as Senate Majority Leader. Assemblyman Garn Mabey will lead the tiny, 15-member Republican caucus in the Assembly, which will be led by the state’s first female speaker, Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley.

And while she may have lost the governor’s race, state Sen. Dina Titus was re-elected to her post as senate minority leader. Wethinks she and Gibbons will cross swords again soon.

– Speaking of Titus, she granted a long interview to the Las Vegas Sun, saying she wouldn’t be surprised if Gibbons got indicted while in office for allegedly using his position as a congressman to help a Reno businessman land defense contracts, and musing that rural Nevada was a lost cause from the start. She also called for an outside probe of allegations Gibbons attacked Chrissy Mazzeo.

Oh, yeah. There will be sword crossing.

– Oh, and speaking of Mazzeo, my colleague Jon Ralston had a chat with her. The results are in his column.

– Indulging in its well-known penchant for in-depth investigative reporting, the Review-Journal solves The Mystery of the Missing Tortoise. Gee, we miss elections already.