» GOP operative Chuck Muth wrote that Assemblyman Garn Mabey’s skipping the inauguration of Gov. Jim Gibbons was an insult. Mabey told the Review-Journal’s John L. Smith that Muth’s opinion was "asinine."

We just can’t pick sides on this one.

» No, no, no! We told you before, lawyers! Don’t put former state Supreme Court Justice Nancy Becker in the appellate division! She’s terrible at it! And that includes you, District Attorney David Roger!

» Quotable: "I may not be the best, church-going Mormon. I will answer for my discretions when I get to heaven. … Faith is important to me, but I don’t wear it on my shoulder. I don’t run around like some people and hang it out there. It is something that guides me." — Gov. Jim Gibbons, on church and state relations.

» Quotable corrections: It’s your indiscretions that you answer for in heaven. People wear their faith on their sleeve, not on their shoulder. (Military men in certain uniforms do wear their rank insignia on their shoulders, on something called "shoulder boards.") And some people may put it out there, but if you hang it out there, well, you’ve got another indiscretion to answer for in heaven.

» The guy who accused Mayor Oscar Goodman of consorting with bimbos and who was subsequently tossed out of City Hall after hurling an anti-Semitic remark has apparently threatened the mayor, too. City marshals paid a little visit to Al Hessen’s house after reviewing the letter, which threatens to slice the mayor up and serve him at the local homeless shelter.

Now, we’re pretty much First Amendment absolutists, so we think Hessen should have had the right to speak at the council meeting and call Goodman’s showgirl escorts "bimbos," as disrespectful as that might be. But after he disrupted the meeting, Goodman was perfectly within his rights to have Hessen removed.

And a physical threat against the mayor’s safety? Although Hessen is claiming the marshal’s visit was intimidation, we disagree. It was a prudent step to investigate Hessen, or anyone who says they’re going to do harm to the mayor or other public officials. (The Secret Service investigates threats against the president, which are federal crimes.) Hessen should be free to make outrageous comments, or even anti-Semitic ones, but if he disrupts public meetings (a misdemeanor under state law) or threatens people with bodily harm, he should expect to endure the consequences.

» Presley Conkle, who’s had a couple of pieces run in CityLife over the years, is now advocating to drop the word "community" from the title of the "Community College of Southern Nevada," where he’s the student-body president. According to the Review-Journal, 9,000 students (out of the institution’s 35,000) agree with him, and signed a petition to that effect. One key supporter: University Chancellor Jim Rogers.

People say the phrase "community college" is derogatory, and the subject of jokes.

"Our biggest challenge is one of public relations and public communication," says CCSN President Richard Carpenter. (Really? Dude, you should totally take some classes in PR! We think they offer them at the community college.)

It turns out that the community college has a four-year degree program — in dental hygiene — and thus it could qualify as a "college," although college officials assure the mission wouldn’t change. (That mission? Finding no-work jobs for legislative paramours and old co-workers of Carpenter’s, of course!)

Hey, we know. Why not change the name of the Community College of Southern Nevada to "Harvard University"? Sure, you’d have to boost that dental hygiene program to a PhD, but you could do it. Or how about "Princeton" and just leave it at that? There’s no academic rule that says you can’t call it "Princeton." Or maybe that’s not self-affirming enough. How about "Oxford"! That’s right, Oxford. You’ve got a degree from a place so cool, they named a shirt after it!

We can’t wait until the regents (henceforth known as the "wise counsel of the quorum of the 13") get this one.