Always with the Quick Hits, we are. Here you go!

• “As my dad used to say, never mind what they’re doing; what are you doing?” — Clark County Democratic Party Chairman John Hunt, reacting to mounting criticism that he’s incompetent.
• (By the way, the answer to Hunt’s dad’s question is: Totally screwing up democracy!)
• Only in Nevada: A Nevada Division of Investigations lieutenant probing the misdeeds of Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki is taken off the case and put on administrative leave for unrelated reasons. Krolicki, meanwhile, is still at large. Authorities warn that, while he’s unarmed, he’s considered extremely obsequious.
• Oh, we totally cannot wait for the mag lev train to whisk us to Disneyland in a couple hours! That is going to be so awesome! We totally love the Magic Kingdom! Wait. What’s that? It’s a conventional train and it’s only going as far as Victorville? What the hell? Who’s to blame for this? Oh, we should have known! Damn you, Sig Rogich! Why do you have to crush our dreams?!
• Still, either train should keep us from tangling with our old adversary, the California Highway Patrol.
• It looks like we at Various Things & Stuff aren’t the only ones who follow the fascinating world of Review-Journal corrections. Columbia Journalism Review, one of four top journalism trade publications in the country, picked up on a multi-part serial correction that still hasn’t made things clear.

One live music venue shuts down (Slanted Clam) and, much like a head on the mythical Hydra, another one springs to life to take its place. Vegas’ newest rockin’ and rollin’ spot is the Sin City Saloon (252 Convention Center Drive, 696-9722), but sorta-old-timers are more likely to remember it as Famous John’s, a gritty joint that hosted a series of underground rock shows from about the fall of 2004 until spring 2005. It’s located in Somerset Plaza, practically next door to the tasty Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant (whose website boasts that the now somewhat-decrepit shopping center was featured prominently in the ’70s TV series VEGA$).

A free grand opening celebration with Otherwise, Adelitas Way and Theory of Flight is slated for March 29.

Fun fact: I’ve been told that if things had turned out differently, this bar would have become the punk rock mecca known as the Double Down Saloon. It was one of several locations under consideration 15 years ago.

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have finally done it. They’ve nearly guaranteed that an entire generation has written off the Republican Party.

However, unlike in prior elections, research shows that the kids are thronging, en masse, to the Dems.

More than three months ago, we reported that tight economic times are driving more of Nevada’s middle- and working-class families to food pantries. With commodities from gas to pork chops rising at their fastest rates in 20 years, everything is costing more, roughly 10 percent of Nevada and Las Vegas families regularly turn to charities for help.

We certainly wouldn’t have predicted what’s come next, but now the United Nations, in effect the planet’s largest food bank, is warning that rising food costs could put the pinch on middle- and working-class families in countries that depend on U.N. food drops.

Maybe if we started consulting market experts who routinely get it right, we could avoid any future messes like this.

Need to bone up on your presidential candidates before that inconvenient Election Day? Forget Wikipedia, get the skinny on your favorite political fat cats at Dickipedia.

Clinton has her own entry. Tellingly, Obama does not.

Reader Jane Heenan writes:

I attended Saturday’s Clark County Democratic Convention as a delegate for Barack Obama, and I want to share what I believe is the convention’s most important story: Community. Thousands of us were together from early morning until late afternoon, talking, laughing, cheering and, yes, sometimes, screaming. Many relationships were born Saturday among people brought together and nurtured by the energy of the convention. I have been here almost 14 years and I have had never experienced the feeling of community present Saturday. This is even more significant in a city which has grown as Las Vegas has for many years — finally, it seems, we may be growing up as a community.

The official business of the convention remains unfinished, and party leaders did not provide adequate support for this work to be done. I trust that they will do what is necessary and that we will get to this important work when the convention reconvenes. And I believe that the more important work of getting up, going out and working together to build community will continue when the convention reconvenes. I am excited and proud to be a part of such change, and I met many people last Saturday who will join me.

The deeper truth is that this convention was and is an historic opportunity — and clearly we have work left to do.

Geez. The speed at which pop culture turns scary flix into toys is going to break the odometer one of these days. At the Hasbro Toy Shop, you can get your very own Cloverfield monster action figure!

(Oh, spoiler alert.)