Thanks to everyone who tuned in over the years, and thanks to everyone who still continues to stop by. ¡Vaya con Dios! [...] Thanks to everyone who tuned in over the years, and thanks to everyone who still continues to stop by. ¡Vaya con Dios! [...] 
Here's to the Lowest Common Denominator, the ones who drag us down, the millstones that hang painfully around the neck of society! May they get what they deserve!
It's a good day for a donut, and in Bomb Town there's just one place to get one: Daylight Delights in Central Park Square.
"The highways and cars
The Los Alamos County Council voted early this morning to obliterate acres of trees for a redundant road.
The Los Alamos County Council on Tuesday voted to uphold the Planning and Zoning Commission's approval to build a skateboard park in front of Mesa Public Library in downtown Bomb Town.
You'd probably think it satire were it not true, but a former County Councilor who prided himself on being a champion for youth has characterized skateboarders as "scofflaws" and an apparent menace to senior citizens in an attempt to stop construction of a skateboard park in' [...] 
Now that the Incredible Stink Hound has grown up a little bit, Mrs. Jimbo and I thought it appropriate to take him on his first overnight traveling adventure.
Oh the Los Alamos County Council! So proud of its Strategic Goals and Objectives that it sent a copy to all the residents of the Bomb Town not too long ago!
Looks like another chunk of downtown Bomb Town property is up on the foreclosure auction block.
Just before 5:30 in the morning on this day 63 years ago, the nuclear age dawned near Alamogordo in a flash as bright as the sun. Los Alamos scientists had proven their success in their mission to create the world's first Atomic Bomb. The achievement would' [...] 
In a town like this, at a critical time in our history like this, it's important to have a good newspaper that will actually do some digging to inform the public of what's really going on out there.
Not usually one to delve into geekiness, I'm going to depart from the normal type of posting to call attention to something that has bugged me since the BTNO first went live a few years ago. (Not that any of this matters, really, as I recently' [...] 
News that comedian George Carlin died set the tone for a Monday morning I guess.
(click image to enlarge)
Well, after a rant like yesterday's vigorous screed about the West Jemez Bypass Road project, it wouldn't be fair to not update this blog and leave everyone hanging until the Monitor comes out later this afternoon. But in some respects, that's what I'm going to do, [...] 
Like a hacked up Jason Voorhees in some late chapter of the Friday the 13th movie saga, the West Jemez Bypass Road project refuses to die!
My faith in the American Public, especially the younger members of it, was restored somewhat when the other day we ran into a recent graduate who mentioned that he was certainly going to vote today in the Primary election. I had not heard this kind of [...] 
Feeling heavy lately? Sluggish? Do you or a family member have a strange discolored line along your gums? Maybe it's the water!
Politically speaking, one of the best things about Los Alamos County Council candidate Mike Wismer is his reluctance to talk about himself.
Something tells me the Los Alamos Vomitor "news" paper isn't doing its job.
Why eat alone when you can dine with friends and a community leader?
Five years ago today, President George W. Bush stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with a banner declaring "Mission Accomplished." After doffing the one-piece flight suit he had worn on a Navy S-3 fighter plane used to shuttle him to the [...] 
Republican Party candidates for U.S. Senate Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson were at their conservative best last night in Bomb Town, trying to build a base that will carry them through the June 3 primary into an eventual contest with Democrat Tom Udall for Sen. Pete [...] 
County machines with an insatiable appetite for "Progress" tore and splintered the great-big, two-story duplex at 38th and Diamond Drive to make way for road "improvements" that come with the Diamond Drive Phase II project.
A White Rock couple has come up with a creative way to contend with Bomb Town's depressed housing market: write a great essay, win a home.
Come one, come all! Los Alamos is celebrating its 60th anniversary and you can be the one to design a really cool logo for the year-long event.
While the Los Alamos County Council may try to spin it as part of the County's efforts to be "green" and a "good neighbor," tonight's introduction of ordinances to increase to the County gross-receipts-tax rate for regional mass transit is really a desperate attempt to make [...] 
It's the kind of sardonic musing that pops into your head during the most exteme moment of unguarded sacrilegious satire—a thing so utterly uncouth and damnable that it must be banished from your thoughts [...] 
It seems a local Democratic hopeful for the Los Alamos County Council is regretting remarks he made about Los Alamos National Laboratory—Bomb Town's biggest employer—during a recent candidate forum.
The weekend was spent coughing up a lung and trying to wipe green ooze from my nostrils, which had opened up like maple spigots on a warm spring day. [...] 
Some joker put my name in a raffle for a pair of tickets to see the Los Alamos Little Theater's presentation of Time Enough, a play written by Bomb Town resident Robert F. Benjamin.
Los Alamos has been selected as one of 11 communities in the Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation Project. Bomb Town will serve as a bellwether for the 2008 presidential campaign.
At first I didn't quite know what to make of the small, nondescript white box sitting unobtrusively among the heap of junk mail, bills and unsolicited catalogs that had been faithfully delivered to my door by the neighborhood postman.
This year's prolonged, wet, cold winter has got a lot of people thinking that concerns about Global Warming may be nothing but alarmist hooey.
Although it might have seemed like the Democratic Party shot its wad during the anonymous orgy of Stupor Tuesday a few weeks back, there's still plenty of political excitement to be had from now until June.
Ever notice the weird smells that creep into the scene every now and then? I do.
Tucked amongst the typically cheery stories reported yesterday in Bomb Town's flailing fish wrapper, the Los Alamos Monitor, was some atypical news: the local school board is having a hard time attracting applicants for the soon-to-be-vacated superintendent position."School board members question why only eight [...]
Shelter dogs sometimes come with some really weird habits, and this guy, of course, is no different.
There's plenty of entertainment to be had this weekend when the New Mexico Dance Theater presents Snow White this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
"It's the end of the world as we know it
Oh, the excitement! The anticipation of Congress' Economic Stimulus Package has been better than Viagra as of late!
I couldn't believe my eyes yesterday morning when I saw a big chunk of snow flying toward a bunch of ducks that had huddled together on the ice near water's edge at Ashley Pond.
I have a hard time getting caught up in Valentine's Day.
Looks like Bomb Town is going to get a downtown skate park after all.
I like to eat. My girth is proof. I probably eat too much. That realization came this weekend when the fabulous Mr. and Mrs. K served us grilled steaks that were, no doubt, big enough to feed a family of six outside of the Land of [...] 
Topper Review—the annual extravaganza that provides Los Alamos High School kids with a no-holds-barred mechanism to showcase their talent—was the best in years.
What is the "Los Alamos Factor"? In simple terms, it's an unconscionable assault on the sensibilities of local taxpayers that needs to be stopped.
If it's not careful, the Los Alamos County Council will leave the community with one giant Legacy of Dumbness tonight.
Am I supposed to be happy that tomorrow I get the opportunity to select a nominee for President of the United States who has no actual insight into the lives and issues faced by the majority of Americans?
In what has become a recurring theme this week in Los Alamos, yet another blog emerges from atomic ooze!
There's a new blog in town!
Los Alamos County is poised to go to the federal trough for funding and clearance to destroy a huge swath of forest for an unnecessary road.
Go figure: You live more than half your life comfortably unaware of anything going on around you and then, one day, zap! You're imbued with the gift of prophecy!
Many people don't know about it, but New Mexico Legislators Sen. Phil Griego (Dem.—Los Alamos, Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Taos) and Rep. Jeannette Wallace (Rep.—Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe) have introduced Senate Joint Memorial 13, which asks the U.S. Forest Service [...] 
Leave it to the Los Alamos Monitor, Bomb Town's remedial "news" paper, to skip mention of something going on right now that could have huge ramifications for future outdoor recreation in the Atomic City—you know, the place we live that most kids refer to as [...] 
One of the Beautiful things about Bomb Town is its proximity to outdoor recreation. Winter is in full swing and conditions at Pajarito Mountain right now are stellar.
Those of you coming here today may have noticed a few changes to the look and feel of the site. Hopefully the changes are for the better.
Sometimes people end up here on the BTNO after Googling a particular word or phrase. Sometimes, just for fun, I check out what search got them here. Sometimes I scratch my head and wonder how the hell a certain search string netted results that included this [...] 
The mild-mannered residents of Los Alamos may have served as guinea pigs for controversial push-polling techniques currently being employed by supporters of conservative presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
It's dèja vú all over again for Los Alamos County. This time it's a good thing.
The Bomb Town News Observer, Los Alamos' longest continuously running blog, saw its one-hundred-thousandth visit late last night. Ironically, I was the one to check in at the critical moment. I find that hilarious!
Despite its largely conservative Republican make-up, the Los Alamos County Council on Tuesday did its part in helping usher in the reign of the [...] 
Tuesday's first meeting of the year for the Los Alamos County Council may have signaled that the Iron Curtain separating the Council from its citizenry may be about to crumble.
'Tis the season to be overwhelmed! But I'm trying not to let it get to me.
Today is Virgin of Guadalupe Day, so I think everyone should do whatever is appropriate to do on Virgin of Guadalupe Day. I have no idea what that is because, you see, I'm not Catholic, nor do I consider myself a particularly religious person. Or at [...] 
Seems like the whole damned town got together Sunday to throw a surprise birthday bash for Bomb Town's favorite son, Russ Gordon.
Going out of Business.... 
We started regretting our choice of entering the Dawn to Dusk mountain bike race in Scottsdale, Ariz., after the grim truth of traveling for six hours in pouring rain hit us like a frothy flash flood roaring down a normally dry desert wash. That was [...] 
On Tuesday a house fire left Bomb Town resident Bobbie Logan and her two young daughters homeless. The fire not only took their home, but everything they owned.
Sometimes you don't win, but you just have to be satisfied [...] 
Tuesday night is probably your last chance to save the edge of Los Alamos Canyon from the bulldozers.
A sweet crust has rocked my world! I'm not talking about pie, despite my well-known love affair with the fruity, pastry-clad dessert.
Here's wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving! May your feast be festive, may your loved ones be at your sides or in your hearts, and may God bless and keep us all in His safe hands.
I've never understood it, but there are those in Bomb Town who view shopping locally with much the same regard as sticking their fingers in a mousetrap.
In another of the never-ending stream of things that make you go "hmm," the Los Alamos Planning and Zoning Commission did its best to remove the word "Planning" from the community's attempts to revitalize its downtown.
Tonight is the first game of the playoffs for the Los Alamos Hilltopper football team, which acted like a band of pitiless hunters clubbing baby harp seals to death last week when they mercilessly stomped Bernalillo 95 to nothing.
For God's sake, would someone please take all the matches away from Bandelier National Monument? Please?
The Los Alamos School District has great material wealth. It's got tons of property that it leases out for a nice tidy income stream. Yet the condition of the Districts infrastructure is poor, with constant complaints about the facilities and the learning environment, especially with [...] 
Los Alamos County's Utilities Department manager had dire words about the future of Bomb Town's water supply, even as members of the the Los Alamos County Council were inking the final touches on a development agreement for a sprawling strip mall and hundreds of new units [...] 
Is Los Alamos ready for its closeup?
More dire than global warming! More newsworthy than Britany! Something terrible is happening and its consequences will be inescapable!
Historically, I've had a love-hate relationship with Halloween.
A group of Los Alamos citizens involved with evaluating the company selected to develop a downtown strip mall expressed high hopes for Bomb Town's future.
