Reno and Beyond: The Gross Lewdness Of It All

Posted by Myrna the Minx on October 17, 2006 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Our favorite police sergeant with our favorite name is set to go to trial for “gross lewdness.” Is it me or does the name Pitsnogle just sound like gross lewdness? Pitsnogle is charged with coercing a young woman into undressing in the back of his patrol car during a traffic stop while he mastrubated. Its a classic case of he said, she said. He says she offered to undress for him in the backseat of his patrol car to get out of a DUI. She says he forced her. What doesn’t seem to be at issue is the fact that a Reno police sergeant mastrubated while a teenage girl undressed in the backseat of his car. That’s got to be covered in the “Improper Procedure” course at the academy. And it just seems logical that if you’re going to pull someone over and coerce/beg/happily observe them mastrubating for you in the backseat of your car, you should at least make sure their an adult first. I always do.
Anjeanette Damon takes it to the Las Vegas Review Journal for publishing the Gibbons non-assault story on the front page. I don’t know anything about Gibbons the man, so I’m not going to speculate on the merits of the withdrawn complaint–plenty of others are doing that. But I will say the Damon’s reaction to the story is a bit puzzling. She makes mention of the woman’s condition twice, writing that she was “drunk” and “inebriated” in case we didn’t get it the first time. The LVRJ story labeled her “very intoxicated” by the way (isn’t that like being very pregnant?). Damon also takes issue with the phrase “Gibbons and the woman both had been drinking at the restaurant” even though its clear that this is what eyewitnesses reported and seems merely descriptive to me. Even Rogich reported that Gibbons had wine with dinner.
The Titus campaign has a new ad. Its much better than what we’ve seen previously from them.
JWH, mutlimedia wizard, recorded the Heller/Derby debate on The Bill Manders show.
Harvey Whittemore and his self proclaimed “visionary” development Coyote Springs were on Keith Olbermann’s show last night. Nevada has become the real Field of Dreams–”if you build it, they will come.” I’m sure the tape will show up on his site soon.
The minx gets two new nicknames (in the comments). I’m not sure which one I like best although I’m currently favoring “The Big M” because it carries a sense of authority I like, plus it makes me think of The Big Lebwoski. Although some of us Discontents discussed the RNR endorsement of Heller in comments the other day, it never made it to bullet status, mostly because the minx has been traveling the globe, conquering Guinness throwing Pogues’ fans. Sometimes, its all about timing. However, it might also have something to do with the fact that a Heller endorsement isn’t all that shocking in everyone knows everyone Northern Nevada. Oh, and the Cobbler is in love with us, or at least with the maniacal MMP, because good content is good content. You never know where it’ll turn up.
I tried to find the video of Harry Reid’s hang-up skit from The Daily Show but it hasn’t been posted yet. Instead of a hang-up, Stewart postulated that it was a Marion Barry style call waiting incident that involved women, booze, and cocaine. Who wouldn’t hang up on a reporter for that?
Why isn’t he running for congress in Nevada? The Brokeback Mountainess of this website is amazing (picture of Kleeb walking his horse across the prairie in particular) and I’m saying that in a totally non-gay way. Heath Ledger is still Health Ledger, even when he plays a gay cowboy–am I right ladies and gentlemen?
Over at the Newsblog, Steve Gilliard posts a fundraising letter he received from George W. Bush in which our president openly accuses Democrats of not wanting to protect and defend ourselves:

Voters have a clear choice to make on Election Day, Steve. It’s a choice between Republicans who understand the most important responsibility we have is to protect and defend the people of the United States. Or Democrats who will wave the white flag of surrender in the global war on terror and deny the tools needed to achieve victory.

It all make so much sense, doesn’t it? We want to be murdered by terrorists. And we want our neighbors to be murdered by terrorists too. And that’s your president talking.
A hipster tipster reminded the minx today that blogger Josh Wolf is still in jail and could end up being the longest-jailed journalist in history for refusing to turn over video he filmed to the authorities. Another one of those pesky First Amendment issue.
The ubiquitous Scarlett Johansson is going to cut a record. Continuing in her endeavor to make every intellectually hip man in America over the age of fifty openly declare what was previously their secret, pervy desire for her, Johansson is going to sing an album full of Tom Waits‘ songs. And the word on the street is that she can actually sing which is easy to imagine with that lusty speaking voice of hers. I’ve actually been a fan of Johansson’s since Ghostworld, and of course, Tom Waits is one of my top five greatests musical artists of all time so this could be a good thing. But does she now its been done extremely well by Holly Cole whose Temptation album is one of the greatest CDs every made. And I’m not exaggerating.
Unmarrieds outnumbered marrieds now. If things keep going this way, the Bush Administration may have to reverse its condemnation of gay marriage in order to protect marriage. Gays like Andrew Sullivan are dying to get married. They’re a completely untapped market. Come on–embrace them–they share your values.

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[...] The conflicting stories have multiplied since I first noticed the interesting press coverage on Tuesday, but the contradictory accounts by the witnesses, police, Sig Rogich and Jim Gibbons continued throughout the week (Hugh Jackson does an excellent job of describing these inconsistencies and errors). The bottom line is that Christine Mazzeo has never recanted her story but did refuse to press charges, and we can only speculate on the reasons why–are they Mazzeo’s or Gibbon’s? We’ll probably never know. [...]

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Comments

As the person who typed “The Big M” as a nickname, I have to let you know it was not meant for you. There is a clarification in the comments as to who it was for. Anyway, you already have a good nickname.

Comment by mrjerz on October 17, 2006 @ 8:08 am

I read, but then, after you corrected him, he said “speaking of the Big M.” I have a theory about nicknames—the more you can claim (dubiously or not) the better!

Comment by Myrna the Minx on October 20, 2006 @ 6:57 pm

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