Time to wrap things up for the week, with a nice dose of Quick Hits:

• R.I.P. Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbits, United States Air Force (ret.), who died Thursday at age 92. Tibbits, as most know, was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the world’s first atomic bomb used in combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. After a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9 of that year, the Japanese surrendered to General of the Army Douglas McArthur aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Toyko Bay on Aug. 15, 1945 Sept. 2, 1945.
  
• We actually met Tibbits once, long ago at a Soldier of Fortune convention, of all things. He was being given an award, but the retired pilot exhibited none of the bravado of the conventioneers. He was just doing his duty, he said. And in so doing, he helped bring to an end one of history’s most awful wars.
  
• Thanks to our colleague Jon Ralston for the tip that the station that used to feature our show Political Insiders — KTNV Channel 13 — has a great investigative report on local government officials using the Internet during council meetings instead of paying attention. The report, which can be viewed on the station’s website, is awesome. Some officials are candid and good-natured about their web use, like Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly. Some are total dicks about it, like Las Vegas Councilman Steve Wolfson, who threatened to shoot a reporter for including certain details in the story. (He was joking, but still totally dickish.) This is a must-see people! Check it out.
  
• Oh, for trying to excuse himself by saying council meetings are "boring," for admitting he shops for golf clubs while public business is conducted, and most especially for saying he’s a fan of Yanni, we hereby name Wolfson our Douchebag of the Week!
  
• Oooops, he did it again. Gov. Jim Gibbons makes yet another questionable appointment, the Las Vegas Sun reports. And a helpful sidebar collect Gov. Misstep’s past appointment atrocities.
  
• KNPR-FM 88.9’s "State of Nevada" radio show is going to live up to it’s name starting Nov. 9, with a statewide weekly radio simulcast on Fridays from Reno and Las Vegas. It will be co-hosted by regular "State" point man Dave Berns, and the program’s Northern Nevada correspondent Brian Bahouth, on KNPR and KUNR-FM 88.7. The program will take calls from listeners all over the state, with the 2008 political caucuses and presidential election a key subject. "State of Nevada" airs daily at from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and repeats from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Full disclosure: Berns is a former editor of the Las Vegas Business Press, which is owned by the same people who own CityLife, Stephens Media LLC.)