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David Colborne
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Opinion columnist for The Nevada Independent. Anarcho-Blueskyist. @wendycolborne.bsky.social wife guy. Manages IT people on the side (full time).

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Of course women don't like the Cybertruck.

Women only want one thing, and it's a two-door Subaru Justy with All Wheel Drive.
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Overflow crowd at the Reno No Kings event.
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
America. Fuck yeah.
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Two out of Three
October 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
October 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.
September 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wait, so the raw milk dairy does not feed its calves the raw milk it claims is feed for calves? Then whose calves are being fed with their milk?

Next you'll tell me Keely Farms doesn't check if the homes they provide free delivery to actually have calves on their property.
August 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Wait, tech workers are getting paid $165,000 mid-career?
August 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Out: PERS

In: Purrs
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Before/After
August 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Gemini 2.5 Pro got the answer right, at least. Asking it to explain its "thinking," however, shows how much effort it took to get there.
August 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Gotta admit, this is one hell of a "data issue."
August 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Drudge Report:
July 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
No.
July 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I decided to run the UK like a private equity takeover target — meaning I slashed all spending and pushed tax revenue as high as it would let me to pay off the debt I saddled the country with in record time.

My shareholders have never been so happy.
July 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
From today's column, the answer at the federal level is apparently "aye".

At the state level, at least in Nevada, the votes are considerably more... mixed.
June 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Ezri and Miles were purring in this pic as well.
June 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Founded by the writer of "Gravity — Our Enemy Number One," the institute was apparently created because his sister tragically forgot how to swim at the worst possible moment.
June 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Listen, if you're publishing a 6+ part dating roundup on your Substack and this is where you're getting your information from, I'm not going to assume you're *less* wrong about the subject.
June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
No! No!!
May 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I wonder what the Catholic equivalent of Apollo's gift of prophecy would be?
May 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The trouble with "free range" children is that, like "free range" livestock, they sometimes walk into situations they shouldn't.

One such sample from the March 1, 1945 edition of the Reno Evening Gazette:
May 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I wish I had the unbridled confidence of an AI replying "Sure, here it is" to a prompt.
April 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Yeah, I'm not worried about AGI taking over the world anytime soon.
April 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I am literally begging Dems to understand that "Trump is doing the good thing badly!" is the stupidest and absolute worst position to adopt under the present circumstances.
April 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM