There is no better way to start the week than with Quick Hits. Enjoy!

• You know, it’s like we don’t even know President George W. Bush anymore! He says he won’t negotiate with terrorists, but there he is, being all nice to North Korea and sending an envoy to talk to the Iranians about nukes. He says he won’t set a timetable to get out of the misbegotten Iraq war, but he and the Iraqis agree on a “time horizon” for withdrawal. Next thing we know, he’ll be reading a book!
• “This is not a political move in a campaign season,” says Clark County School District Trustee Terri Janison, of delaying a $7 billion school construction bond until 2010, which was totally a political move in a campaign season.
• It looks like state Sen. Dennis Nolan was every bit as effective as a character witness to accused sex offender Gordon Joseph Lawes as he has been advocating for red-light cameras and seat-belt laws up in Carson City. Which is to say, not effective at all: Lawes was quickly convicted of the charges Friday.
• Gosh, do you think Nolan’s political opponents might use that “character witness for a convicted sex offender” against him in a couple of years, when he’s up for re-election? That would make a hell of a mailer!
• University Regent Ron Knecht is at it again, slamming Chancellor Jim Rogers for all that truth-telling Rogers is doing in his weekly memos to the board. “The tone, the personal criticism, the vendetta that he [Rogers] has against Gov. [Jim] Gibbons, that I think is really inappropriate,” Knecht says. Here’s the thing: It’s not surprising that Rogers is incensed at Gibbons, whose decisions are ruining higher education. No, the real question here is why Knecht isn’t outraged.
• Local TV station has two fake, commercially designed, product placement accessories on morning newscast. Oh, and there’s also fake McDonald’s iced coffee. Bam!
• But seriously, folks, given that the iced coffee is fake, we know at least it won’t melt down. Unlike, say, Monica “The Queen” Jackson! Bam! We’ll be here all week, folks. Be good to your waitress…