Email Author Stephen Lemons

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 12, 2011

  "White Lies"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 3, 2011

  "Sourpuss"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 3, 2011

  "Recalling Russell Pearce"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2011

  "His Own Worst Enemy"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 3, 2011

  "Kissing His Political Career Goodbye"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Feathered Bastard

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published April 7, 2005

  "Behind the Green Door"

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2007 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• 9/11 hero William Rodriguez and Charles Lindbergh

  published Aug 24, 2007

  Lucky Lindy, a true American hero, who was full of the brown stuff when it came to the brownshirts. Mark Roberts(left), the Obi-wan Kenobi of debunkers, takes on 9/11 hero and troofer William Rodri... More >>

• He ain't no Michelle Malkin, but John Gibson rocks for the way he effs w/troofers

  published Aug 23, 2007

  Give them troofers hell, John... Yeah he ain't as hot as Michelle Malkin, but Fox News talking head John Gibson's still super-cool for fucking with loony dood Alex Jones, tearing down the troofers, ... More >>

• The 9/11 nut who got away: Dr. William Deagle

  published Aug 22, 2007

  (photo from Deagle's NutriMedical.com site) The Albert Einstein of moonbatsr Maybe... I don't know how I overlooked Dr. William Deagle in my expose on the 9/11 nutters and the man who battles those ... More >>

• Grand Wizard Arpaio

  published August 23, 2007

  Sheriff Joe in Klansmen's gear? Hey, if the sheet fits. That was the first thought this nutcracker had upon seeing the now-infamous Photoshopped... More >>

• The History Channel pulverizes troofers in 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction.

  published Aug 21, 2007

  The History Channel all up in your grills, you troofer bitches. Pat Curley, aka Yoda of Screw Loose Change fame calls it "Hiroshima for the Truthers," and indeed The History Channel did an excellent... More >>

• Irony gone nuclear: One week from today, Psychic TV transforms Anderson's Fifth Estate into androgyny central.

  published Aug 20, 2007

  PTV3: Genesis P-Orridge is in the center of the pile. In what may prove to be one of the most ironic club happenings in the history of Arizona, and perhaps the nation, the legendary Psychic TV, fro... More >>

• Molly Crabapple turns, well, crabby...

  published Aug 18, 2007

  Fred Harper's illo, one of the most infamous ever to illustrate The Bird. Crabapple's illo: Uh, just what did she reckon the illo was aboutr NY artist Molly Crabapple must be feeling the heat for ... More >>

• Troofer lies over WTC 7, Boloboffin's vids, and Penn & Teller.

  published Aug 16, 2007

  Penn & Teller kick much troofer butt... I thought it might be instructive to answer this e-mail from 9/11 troofer Brian Cook in Ventura, California, who writes in response to last week's cover story... More >>

• Killing Bandit: The dumb Dog Days of AZ Summer, and the even dumber Sheriff Joe, aka, Sand Land's Deputy Dawg.

  published Aug 15, 2007

  See, no one can kill dawgs in this here county but me! What the eff is the matter with you peopler Apparently the good citizens of AZ have sooooo much time on their hands and heat on their brains du... More >>

• Tranny Tweeter

  published August 16, 2007

  Aside from rumors of the dodo's demise during his time spent writing last week's cover story, "The... More >>

• Klan Grand Wizard Joe Arpaior

  published Aug 15, 2007

  KTAR's Darrell Ankkkarlo ain't on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's payroll, as far as I know, but he might as well be. Seems Ankarlow-brow made a big deal about the photoshopped pic above on his show today, as ... More >>

• Noam Chomsky and the 9/11 nutbars: Why they suck and he doesn't.

  published Aug 15, 2007

  Chomsky on the moonbats: "The evidence that's been produced [in favor of 9/11 conspiracy theories], in my opinion, is essentially worthless." Back to David Ray Griffin soon, but I wanted to make som... More >>

• Why David Ray Griffin is full of merde, Part I.

  published Aug 13, 2007

  David Ray Griffin, laughing all the way to the bankr Retired religion prof. David Ray Griffin is currently the leading intellectual light of the 9/11 movement, a position once held, it could be argu... More >>

• Holocaust deniers, anti-Semites and 9/11 deniers: Joined at the hip like Jim Marrs and Eric Williamsr

  published Aug 11, 2007

  Does moonhowler Jim Marrs still defend Holocaust denier Eric Williams, now that Williams' Shoah-shirking tome is back on the 'Netr Remember Eric Williams, Holocaust denier and author of The Puzzle o... More >>

• We have a winner in our Star Wars trivia contest...

  published Aug 10, 2007

  Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. A winner we have in our Star Wars trivia contest. The question was why the photo pictured above would be physically impossible in George Lucas' fantasy realm.... More >>

• Lynx and Lamb Gaede, the neo-Nazi Olsen twins and their wack-job mother.

  published Aug 10, 2007

  The prejudiced pixies of Prussian Blue... Thanks to my pals at the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog for pointing out this brilliant new documentary from British TV Nazi Pop Twins about t... More >>

• 9/11 Star Wars Trivia Contest

  published Aug 09, 2007

  What's wrong with this picr Why is it physically impossible in the Star Wars realmr I'm throwing this contest out for any and all local Star Wars fanatics who may have been boggled by the whole Jed... More >>

• Dylan Avery discusses balls; Uh, not his own, of course.

  published Aug 09, 2007

  Can someone cue "Three Blind Mice"r So Dylan Avery likes talking about balls, and doods with balls in their mouths. Hey, that's his mature way of responding to critics, by using all that homoerotic ... More >>

• Swann's ugly duckling: Jarrett Maupin off ballot, Goober Gordon's lameness endures.

  published Aug 08, 2007

  In a major disappointment for mayoral hopeful Rev. Jarrett Maupin, Judge Peter Swann just returned a decision effectively dismissing Maupin's lawsuit aimed at placing his name on the September 11 ball... More >>

• The Yoda of 9/11

  published August 9, 2007

  It's late afternoon at a conference of 9/11 conspiracy theorists in Chandler, and Pat Curley's been batting away the intellectual softballs for a... More >>

• High noon: Lawyers for Jarrett Maupin and the City of Phoenix slug it out in court; Judge Swann promises ruling before 5 p.m.

  published Aug 08, 2007

  Keep remindin' yourself, he's only 20... It was a packed house in the Old Bailey today as lawyers for both the Rev. Jarrett Maupin and the City of Phoenix duked it out before Judge Peter B. Swann ov... More >>

• Jarrett Maupin challenges Mayor Phil Gordon in Superior Court, tries to get name on ballot with help of Republican attorney John Acer.

  published Aug 08, 2007

  The People's Champ fights back today in court... With the political clock ticking, Phoenix mayoral hopeful Jarrett Maupin filed suit in Maricopa County Superior Court late Monday to have his name re... More >>

• The Onion vs.the Weekly World News

  published Aug 07, 2007

  Well, that explains everything... I know there are people out there who think The Onion is the greatest comedy rag since National Lampoon or Spy, but I've always found it hit or miss. On my bulletin... More >>

• Dumbass donnybrook: Tom Anderson dares Attorney General Terry Goddard to sue over tranny bathrooms.

  published Aug 06, 2007

  Pardon me, can anyone direct me to the ladies' bogr In a press release issued today, Tom Anderson, owner of Anderson's 5th Estate in Scottsdale, defied the AZ Attorney General's request that Anderso... More >>

• George Cortez, Jr., widow Tiffany Cortez and the Dr. Phil show.

  published Aug 06, 2007

  Tiffany Cortez, from a photo on http://www.myspace.com/misstiffycortez, copied onto the AZPunk.com site. Normally, it's bad form to speak ill of the dead, but not necessarily on that self-appointed... More >>