» Let’s everybody remember who it was who proposed arming university employees to deal with a campus shooting incident. (It was Regent Stavros Anthony, a Las Vegas police captain.) Let’s all remember who it was who said the proposal "…would increase the number of people on campus who would be able to carry a firearm and take out the shooter." Let’s all remember that the proposal also increases the number of guns on campus available to be used by a shooter. And let’s hope we never have to remember Anthony’s work in the wake of an innocent person — yea, even a concealed weapon holder — who is shot as a result of this idea.

Don’t get us wrong; we’re total gun nuts and total supporters of the Second Amendment. We own plenty ourselves (mostly because so many right-wingers are armed to the teeth). But the best solution to school shootings is more school cops, better planning and better intervention to fix problems before they result in gunplay. Too bad regents didn’t think so.

» Thanks to the Review-Journal, by the way, for publishing the letters to the editor that affirmed our corporate overlord in chief, Sherm Frederick, and his Sunday rant against Las Vegas Sun Editor Brian Greenspun. Both letters express disdain that the Sun appears inside the R-J, and both letter writers mocked the progressive ideas contained in the Sun. It’s a common refrain among some conservatives, who hate being exposed to ideas contrary to the ones they’ve come to embrace. Thus by publishing their names, the R-J has done us a service. The community now knows that Louis Frederick (no relation, we’re sure) and David P. Beechuk are idiots.

» You know, it’s funny. With the obvious hate that the R-J shows in its news and editorial columns for public employees, you’d think they would be all over the story of the Metro Police internal investigation of overtime abuses. But no, that’s the supposedly "liberal" Sun. Too bad some R-J readers never venture inside that paper.

» "Your Vegas is showing" is one of the stupidest catchphrases we’ve ever heard, only slightly less insulting than "Hey, America! Fuck you and your values. Come to Vegas and get fleeced already!" Given that it’s so insulting and so stupid, we’re sure it’s going to be a total hit.

» "Only an idiot would say this transaction would not be looked at closely," said Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, about a deal that gave former Councilman Michael McDonald as much as a $3.1 million break on land McDonald wants to turn into housing for low-income seniors. No, only an idiot wouldn’t actually look at this deal closely, which the city may or may not have done. We’re torn: On the one hand, taxpayers ate up to $3.1 million. On the other, McDonald’s purpose is noble in finding a place for poor old people to live. It’s not like the time the city gave away land to profit-making Cox Communications for $1. That was totally wrong.

» Apparently, people like the candidate we call Mitt Romney 2.0. The former Massachusetts governor — Mitt Romney 1.0 — they probably wouldn’t like so much. That Mitt Romney ordered the state to start issuing gay marriage licenses (after a court ruled they were legal) and was pro-choice. The new guy is pro-life and even a hunter, although he’s never gone the extra mile and shot a guy in the face.

Anyway, the R-J says he’s got 23 percent of Republicans behind him, a statistical tie with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who had 21 percent. What’s Romney gotta do to break the big 25, put on a dress, live with a gay couple and act all outraged whenever somebody suggests that Muslims just maybe don’t like us — at least in part — because we’re occupying their holy land?

» Shameless plug alert: Reading this week’s CityLife cover story won’t lower your power bills. But it will probably produce enough outrage to run your home’s air conditioner for a week! Check out Bob Shemeligan’s piece here.

» Second shameless plug alert: We’ll be taking to the airwaves this weekend for another edition of Nevada Week in Review with Mitch Fox. The panel, including Review-Journal political reporter Molly Ball, R-J business scribe Howard Stutz and Las Vegas Sun Business Editor Jeff Simpson, will talk about MGM Mirage’s roller-coaster stock ride, the contract talks between that company and the Culinary Union Local 226, a possible downtown arena and poll numbers for Gov. Jim Gibbons and presidential candidate Romney. The show airs at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Friday), as well as 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.