Forgive us readers. We thought Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons‘ transition teaming was complete, and that there would be no more teams. We were mistaken. It was announced today that an "at-large" transition team had been appointed to give Gibbons "advise and counsel on a wide variety of subjects."

The team includes some very distinguished people indeed, including Dacole Co. chairman T.J. Day, who will lead the team; Terry Lanni, chairman and CEO of MGM Mirage; former state Sen. Ann O’Connell; current state Sen. Randolph Townsend and attorney, lobbyist and developer Harvey Whittemore.

It’s a shame they’ll find themselves on the same committee as George Harris, publisher of Liberty Watch: The Magazine, a right-wing propaganda outlet that we suspect takes money from people in exchange for being featured in the magazine, especially on the cover. (We’ve asked Harris and Editor Mike Zigler about this, but both failed to answer our question directly.) During the Republican primary, in fact, Liberty Watch regularly slammed Gibbons in favor of the more conservative state Sen. Bob Beers, who according to his financial disclosure statements, in an officer in Harris Liberty Media LLC.

How, we wonder, will the team members listed above, along with lobbyists Greg Ferraro and Sam McMullen, former state Sen. Sue Lowden, businessman Luther Mack Jr., attorney George F. Ogilvie III and banker George W. Smith, react when they learn they are sitting on a board with a man who publishes racist diatribes? In the most recent Liberty Watch, Harris allows columnist (and former Review-Journal scribe) to muse upon the fact that minorities commit most of the crime in the country, and wonders why the media and cops don’t "call a spade a spade."

Nice work, George.

And nice work, Gibbons.

We can’t wait to see what "advice and counsel" Harris proffers that will help guide the state.

Our hearty congratulations to the Pahrump Town Board, for rejecting a Nazi-era ordinance that would have required all illegal immigrants to register with the town, pay a $200 fee and list all their relatives living in Nevada. The ordinance, by town board member Michael Miraglia, was voted down 2-2.

Even better comes signs that the incoming town board might undo some of Miraglia’s old handiwork: An ordinance that makes English Pahrump’s official language, and bans flying a foreign flag without Old Glory, too.

Miraglia’s off the town board now, but has said he aspires to higher office. He may have like-minded company, say incoming Assemblyman-elect Ty Cobb, R-Reno, who wants to deny all state services to illegal immigrants, or Weasel-in-Chief Lt. Gov.-elect Brian Krolicki, who in 2005 tried to keep illegal immigrants who earned the Millennium Scholarship from getting it.

A battle was won, but the war on hatred continues…

» Quotable: "Christians are quite clearly taught to turn the other cheek and to love their enemies. It is equally true that no one should forfeit their lives to an aggressor who is bent on inflicting death." — from the website of Murrieta, Calif.-based Left Behind Games Inc., which produces the Eternal Forces video game in which pro-Christian players kill members of a one-world-government police force fielded by the Antichrist.

Yes, we can’t recall anybody in the history of Christendom who ever forfeited his life to an aggressor bent on inflicting death. Can you?

» Mayor Oscar Goodman will be teaching a class at the Community College of Southern Nevada, about the making of martinis.

Oh, Chancellor Jim Rogers. Where are you with your angry memos when we really need you?

» We’re big fans of the correction box in the Review-Journal. You can learn a lot about a newspaper from seeing how honest it is about reporting its mistakes. And today’s correction box contains a doozy. Here’s what it said:

"A photo illustration that ran with a story about Nevada’s business secrecy laws in the Sunday Business section included an incorrect picture. A picture from Inhale Solutions’ Web site that the company listed as its Las Vegas office building at 1117 Desert Lane was not shown. The picture in the illustration was listed on the Web site as Inhale Solution’s office building in Signal Hill, Calif."

So it’s a simple case of using the wrong photo, right? Just a little mix up in the hurly burly of putting out a garden-variety regional newspaper.

But check out what the Review-Journal story by writers John Edwards and A.D. Hopkins actually said:

"Inhale Solutions, a company based in Signal Hill, Calif., that sells gum for cleaning a smoker’s breath until recently showed a picture of a modern, two-story building on its Web site.

"The building bears the name Inhale Solutions, and its address is shown as 1117 Desert Lane, a side street near Charleston Boulevard and Interstate 15.

"The building at that address looks nothing like the one formerly pictured on the Web site.

"The structure is a one-story, 55-year-old, 1,600-square-foot office building used by Nevada First Holdings, a company that specializes in helping companies incorporate in Nevada. Inhale Solutions is a client of Nevada First.

"Calls to Inhale Solutions Chief Executive Matthew Willer about the photo were not returned."

Accompanying the story were two photos, one of a nice gleaming office building that carried a caption reading "Pictures on the Web site for smoker’s-breath-cleaning gum seller Inhale Solutions suggest the company’s local offices look like this…"

Immediately below that was a photo of a rundown little building here in town, that carried the rest of the caption, "…but Inhale Solutions’ offices are in this building, which is one story shorter, older looking and used by Nevada First Holdings."

So, we’ve caught Inhale Solutions in a bit of false advertising, eh? The dastardly bastards have been trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes?

Not even close. Check out the actual photo from the website that ran with the R-J story. Not clear enough? Well, check it out here, as it currently exists on the company’s website (as late as this morning).

Notice anything? How about the fact that the address of the building that the R-J suggested was somewhere around Charleston and I-15 is actually listed as an address on Industry Drive in Signal Hill?

The R-J didn’t "include an incorrect picture" in their story! It used the right photo of the company’s headquarters, but then made up an allegation that were totally false!

This begs the following questions: How in the hell did no one look at the photo while writing the story, especially a story in which the lead rests on an entirely false premise? Why did an editor not see the glaring mistake, and fix it before it went to press? Are there editors at the R-J’s business desk? Or anywhere in that building? And how in the hell can the R-J even attempt to get away with simply saying it simply "included an incorrect picture" when really its reporters got the tale totally, completely and obviously wrong?

Like we said, you can learn a lot about a newspaper from the corrections box.

CORRECTION (Oct. 18, 2007): After a version of this story was published in the Oct. 11, 2007 edition of CityLife, we at Various Things & Stuff received a complaint from the Review-Journal. Upon further investigation, we discovered an earlier version of Inhale Solutions website that did, in fact, contain a photograph of a two-story office building beside an address of 1117 Desert Lane, Las Vegas, NV. (According to research on the website archive.org, the page was altered sometime between Dec. 5, 2006 and Dec. 8, 2006 to remove the photograph and address of the alleged Las Vegas building.) Therefore, while the original photo illustration in the R-J’s story of Dec. 10, 2006, was incorrect, the correction published Dec. 13, 2006, was accurate. We at Various Things & Stuff regret the error.

» And finally today, we note that the Citizens Against Government Waste are slamming Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons, who failed to return to Washington, D.C. for the lame-duck session of Congress. Gibbons claims he’s attending to his pre-gubernatorial duties, but with scores of people on his transition teams, perhaps he could have broken a little time free.

"It’s absolutely pathetic," roared David Williams, vice president of the anti-waste group. "This is their job: to cast votes."

But we think Williams may be trying to have his cake and eat it, too. Remember back in December 2003, when Citizens Against Government Waste named Gibbons its Porker of the Month for voting for funds to repair a Sparks swimming pool?

So they jump on his case for voting, and they jump on his case for not voting. Sometimes, a guy just can’t win, you know?