Your Tax Dollars At Work

The official opening of the Mills B. Lane Justice Center takes place today. It's a beautiful new building, and to commemorate the occasion local businesses and government agencies are putting on an event that includes local dignitaries, media, pomp and circumstance and, of course, free food. Unfortunately, someone (rumored to be at the D.A.'s office but I have no official confirmation on that) came up with the bright idea that gavel-shaped cookies should be available for the event. Apparently prisoners at the Washoe County Jail were ordered to bake hundreds of these gavel-shaped cookies. One of my co-workers just brought one back to the office. Here's what they came out looking like:

AWESOME! Sadly, what are now being called "the Dickie Cookies" have apparently been quickly pulled from public availability. We're wondering what to do with the one sample that we managed to capture before the, ahem, premature withdrawal. So far the best idea is to sell it on E-Bay, but if anyone has any better ideas I'd love to hear them.