Boy Scouts of America

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

Tempe Wingnut Is the Ideal Man to Run the County GOP -- and Here's Why

Arpaio Awaits Justice as Election Looms

Your Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention

Joe Arpaio's Taliban, Nativist Steve Camarota, and More Problems for the MCSO

See also: MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal Immigrants, Contradicting Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Leg ... More >>

Ken Bennett Steps In It, and, Yes, "Plays" to Birthers

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, a relatively moderate Republican, wants to be Governor. But to have any kind of shot at the 19th Floor, he figures he must placate the activist base of Sand Land's GOP, which is deeply, rabidly insane. Hence, the predicament he finds himself in, having to ... More >>

Creepy Crawler Ex-Phoenix Priest George Bredemann Dies In Prison

Stories about pedophile Catholic priests have become de rigueur in recent years, in Phoenix and around the rest of the world.But some of us "oldsters" remember some of the very first detailed accounts of the disgusting diddlers and how those in charge--Bishop Thomas O'Brien here in the Phoenix ... More >>

Russell Pearce's New Nemesis: Republican Robert Worsley (w/Update)

Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just encountered his first major obstacle in his revenge campaign for state Senate from Legislative District 25: Republican businessman Robert Worsley.Today, the wealthy Mesa executive has announced that he'll be Pearce's rival in the Republican pri ... More >>

Russell Pearce Nabs First Vice Chair, Ron Paul Dominates Straw Poll at State GOP Meeting

Ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce began slithering back into relevancy this Saturday during the Arizona GOP's winter meeting, held at Phoenix's Church for the Nations, where he was elected to the party's First Vice Chair position.Despite an embarrassing 12-point loss to fellow Republican Jerr ... More >>

Russell Pearce: Jerry Lewis "Supports Gays in Boy Scouts" -- and More Whining From Ousted Senate President

Russell Pearce, Arizona's biggest loser, apparently is a little bitter about getting booted from office.​Ousted former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce went On the Record With Greta Van Susteren last night to discuss his getting booted from office -- and piss and moan about Jerry Lewis, the ... More >>

Russell Pearce Challenger Jerry Lewis Takes on the Critics, Swears Off All Freebies

Lewis promises not to take freebiesAs I discuss at length in my column this week, state Senate President Russell Pearce wrestles almost daily with the truth, and so, too, do many of his supporters. So, not surprisingly, Pearce's main challenger in the Legislative District 18 recall election, Me ... More >>

A Kafka-esque Catch 22 Keeps Kini Seawright Off the AHCCCS Rolls, Thanks to Governor Brewer and the State Legislature

Phoenix's Homeless Escape the Summer Heat to the Big Rock Candy Mountains of Flagstaff

Russell Pearce Challenger Jerry Lewis Formally Announces Candidacy in LD 18 Recall Race

Southwest Pictures, LLCJerry Lewis announces, as Supervisor Don Stapley (far right) looks on As Eddie Albert liked to say in The Longest Yard (the original, not the Adam Sandler remake), "His-to-ry."That's what Arizona witnessed this morning in Mesa in the garden room of the Victorian-style Wright H ... More >>

Russell Pearce's E-Mails To Me on the Subject of J.T. Ready

Russ to moi: "Enough is enough with your hatred of me and my Christian beliefs." Christian? You sure don't act like it, bub.As I promised in this week's Bird column concerning state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce's involvement with neo-Nazi J.T. Ready's spiritual life as a member of the Churc ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Mexico's Bottom-Rung First World Status and the Nation's Own Manifest Destiny

Neo-Nazi NSM Scrapbook: One Dead Body, One Live Migrant

NSMA man the neo-Nazis say they turned over to Border PatrolNational Socialist Movement regional director Jeff Hall has filed an "after action report" on the NSM Web site with photos and video of the dead body that Mesa swastika-licker J.T. Ready said he and fellow brownshirts (and assorted fellow t ... More >>

Suicide at the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections

McCain Shame

The political parrot previews a copy of Dennis DeConcini's new book, in which John McCain's portrayed as a backstabbin' scalawag

Detective Comics

Showbiz noir investigates TV Superman’s real-life tragedy

Covert Care

Lineup lines up to play it forward

Street Regal

Louis XIV kicks it with Kreme at the Marquee, then parties at Shake! with William Fucking Reed

The Fandom Menace

The family that slays Wookiees together . . .

10-Pin Pimpin'

Lane-lubbers, kingpins and strike-aholics converge on AMF Tempe for Xtreme Bowling

Blow My Mine

Could Arizona's 80,000 working and abandoned mines be the root of all evil?

See Dick, and Tom, Run

In comedy--and comebacks--it's all about the timing

Rat Fink

Roof Rat Man leads Arcadia's rat race

Dead Man Talking

Killer Robert Comer is pleased with a decision that may end his life

Getting down--and dirty--at Nita's Hideaway

Letters from the week of June 13, 2002

Lodge crowd simmers down, Britney babes speak up

Letters from the week of April 11

Lord of the Custard

For Auntie Em's impresario, life is just a bowl of ice cream

Bearing Witness

Hunters involved in legal showdown over shooting accident

A Path Divided

Years ago, a dispute over money and power split the Valley's Sikh community. Then one of their own was gunned down after September 11. Will the bloodshed be enough to put them back on the same path?

Dark Victory

15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl

Flight From Phoenix

In 1944, 25 German POWs tunneled out of the Papago Park internment camp. Now, a Valley playwright has excavated their adventure.

Letters

From the week of November 2, 2000

Hook, Line and Stinker

Don't bite, even if Bait does

Net Loss

Twenty years ago-- as gangs began their rise in the valley-shortsighted civic leaders slashed youth programs. Today's troubled kids are still paying the price.

Revenge of the Verdes

Natives finally glean a few reparations for a legacy of genocide

The Terminator

Trash-talking abortionist Dr. Brian Finkel has a message for pro-life zealots: "Kiss my ass."

Flashes

Maroon for the Misbegotten

Six Days, Seven Nights stranded with weak script, mismatched stars

Well Respected Man

With The Storyteller, Ray Davies finds a new way for rock to age gracefully

Flashes

It's Topps!

Tim Burton turns his ray gun on everything in sight when Mars Attacks!, and it's good, gory fun

Affirmative Reactionaries

Arizona's militias aren't the exclusive domain of white supremacists - people of color are joining the ranks, too.

A KILLER CONVENTION

THE IMAGE-CONSCIOUS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION ALLOWED NO NOISY FIREFIGHTS DURING ITS ANNUAL MEETING. EVERYONE WAS USING SILENCERS.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

STATE LAWMAKERS SOLVED MANY PROBLEMS THIS SESSION. UNFORTUNATELY,MOST OF THE PROBLEMS WERE BIG BUSINESSES'.

BUSTING THE BIKERS

YOU'RE A TATTOOED GIANT ON A HARLEY. YOU'RE A MEMBER OF THE DIRTY DOZEN. YOU'RE TOAST.

MINE SHAFTED

THE FOLKS IN MORRISTOWN MAY BE GETTING A NOT-SO-GRAND CANYON