We’ve been busy this week, people, and missed a few things. So let’s catch up with some Quick Hits!

• We’re not surprised the Los Angeles Dodgers bugged out of Las Vegas, abandoning the Las Vegas 51s as their AAA-affiliate team. After all, the faithless Brooklyn Dodgers once abandoned the good people of New York, back in 1957, giving rise to an old but still-relevant joke about then-team owner Walter O’Malley: Hitler, Stalin and Walter O’Malley are together in a room, and you’ve got a gun with only two rounds. What do you do? Answer: Shoot O’Malley twice.
• Carolyn Goodman for mayor, Oscar Goodman for governor, the Las Vegas Sun suggests. We like it, but it would never work. See, the governor has to live in Carson City, and unlike the incumbent (who occasionally follows the law and lives in Carson City), Oscar and Carolyn Goodman actually like each other and want to live in the same house. Still, Las Vegas could do a lot worse than another Mayor Goodman.
• Speaking of Goodman, he’s seen quite a few of his early dreams come true in his tenure. Buildings are going up all over Union Park. (FULL DISCLOSURE: Our wife does public relations for Newland Communities, which is developing that project.) And a long-ago vision of a downtown intellectual marketplace came true this week with the opening of the revamped Fifth Street School. Nice work, Mr. Mayor.
• The AP reported President George W. Bush’s farewell address to the United Nations “will stress the need for multinational diplomacy.” Which Bush himself is well known for. For ignoring, that is. Is irony totally dead around here?
• U.S. Sen. Harry Reid calls state Sen. Dr. Joe Heck to confirm, once again, that Democrats are totally without balls. P.S. If you’re going to put out fliers in a surrogate campaign made necessary because you’ve recruited a candidate who has no business on the campaign trail, try to at least get the facts right, will you?
• To confirm: Joe Heck voting against requiring insurance companies to cover a vaccine that aims to help young women avoid catching a virus that causes cervical cancer. He says mandates drive up costs, but we think treating cancer costs more than a shot. Then again, we are not doctors, so take that for what it’s worth.
• “This is the end. It’s over as far as this election is concerned.” — Secretary of State Ross Miller, talking about an initiative circulated by former Reno Assemblywoman Sharron Angle that would have capped property taxes in Nevada. Or, was he talking about Angle’s long career of failure?
• We love — absolutely love — how former free market Republicans (including Bush) are falling all over themselves to get taxpayers to bail out companies Republicans enabled to fail. John McCain is so worked up, he can’t even campaign anymore. Truly, we are all socialists now. Let’s just remember this the next time one of them starts talking about how much he loves capitalism, unfettered businesses is good business, etc.
• “Irregularities”? That’s the word the federal government’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration used to describe Nevada OSHA’s handling of that sickening and tragic incident at The Orleans in 2007 that killed two workers. Nevada OSHA disagrees with the word. And so do we. We think the way the state agency handled the case is best described as the kind of oversight that a prostitute provides to her customers. You know. Friendly.