We've had another whole weekend of Sharron Angle puffery in the Review-Journal.

But we expected that.

The fun began Saturday with coverage of Friday's Republican State Convention in Henderson. http://www.lvrj.com/news/rnc-leader-vows-to-bring-party-together--clarifies-afghanistan-remarks-98156014.html

Ben Spillman did his best to cover GOP Chairman Michael Steele, in light of Steele's insanely ignorant comments about the war in Afghanistan, but also didn't put his comments into proper perspective. Apparently, Nevada GOP Chairman Mark Amodei had no idea of the controversy. We learned that later from Spillman.

The Angle fun continued Sunday with Laura Myers' reporting on Day 2 of the state convention. http://www.lvrj.com/news/republicans-urge-clean-nevada-sweep-98190419.html

But here's the real problematic story -- Myers got a 10-minute interview with Angle -- and this is all she was able to wrestle out of her.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/gop-s-angle-rejects-political-makeover-98190384.html

Myers lets Angle say she's "not made over."

Puh-lease.

How about asking her why she's triangulating already if that's the story you're going to do?

Myers just asked her political questions, and so all she really got back was spin.

This is not exactly grown-up reporting. But we haven't come to expect the grown-ups to rule the day at the RJ.

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On the grown-up front, it seems the Publisher of the Sun has a new beef with the Publisher of the RJ.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/11/motive-behind-despicable-dig-reid-senators-patriot/

We're not sure if Brian Greenspun really got to the "motive" behind Sherm Frederick's antics, but we're happy to have a "grown-up" thrown down.

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The aforementioned-Spillman has a strange notebook item today in which he somehow suggests Brian Sandoval says more about the state's deficit with his non-speak than Rory Reid does with his.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/goodman-can-t-see-balancing-state-budget-without-tax-hike-98224004.html

For what it's worth, he also quotes Oscar Goodman to try to set things straight.