Bad idea of the month

A man thinks it would be neat if Barstow were more like Las Vegas, with as many as 206 casinos. Part of his proposal is "A canal system extending to the Pacific Ocean (to) provide fresh water (Johnson said he imagines this happening through desalinization, or by bringing icebergs down the canals)."

This is one time I'm glad the Nevada gamining industry has lots and lots of money and power. You know, I'm perfectly happy to let Nevada, which has nothing else going for it, be the red-light capital of the country. That's really fine with me. They can keep it. Let Barstow -- for all its resemblance to Vegas in the sense that it is also a water-deprived crossroads in the middle of nowhere -- be Barstow.