Duty calls, and I have been employed on a project by my masters, which is now monopolizing most of my free time. And no, it has nothing to do with Arpaio, thankfully.As a consequence, there will be extremely light blogging, FB-wise, for the remainder of the week. I will resume…
Recently filed court documents show that State Senate President Russell Pearce’s 30 year-old son Joshua has been sentenced to a year in the Arizona Department of Corrections for violating the conditions of his probation on a 2007 conviction for aggravated DUI. (Both Joshua’s infant son and his wife were in…
Russell Pearce: Pioneer Against Illegal Immigration or Racist?: MyFoxPHOENIX.comKudos to Fox 10 anchor John Hook and executive producer Rod Haberer for the best exposé I’ve seen another outlet do on the subject of state Senate President Russell Pearce and his relationship with Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. The piece ran during…
President Barack Obama fancies himself Samuel L. Jackson in the remake of Shaft these days, following his order to have the Navy SEALs take out 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Though he gets some kudos for the kill, bin Laden is not the man Obama’s most afraid to go after…
Well, here’s some fresh proof that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s “Munnell memo” report is a complete whitewash, and that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was, is, and always will be in complete control of his agency. While he’s still sheriff, that is. Today Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s office…
I’m really beginning to wonder about Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern’s sanity.Yesterday, I pointed out that MacEachern was regurgitating Glenn Beck’s conspiratorial leftovers, wailing like a stuck javelina that controversial former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill was present when student activists took over a Tucson Unified School District board…
He just took you for $100 million in protected taxpayer funds.You are one of the following: 1) a senile ol’ coot skerred of Messcans2) a tebagging piece of white trash with a do-rag and a Harley3) a rich Republican goober like Steve Ellmanor4) a GOP hack looking for an endorsement.Whether…
The Arizona Republic’s Doug MacEachern continues to prove himself a shrill, conspiratorial wuss, one so unoriginal, he has to ape Glenn Beck, of all people.In his latest misleading ditty about ethnic studies, MacEachern practically pops a vein informing all and sundry that Ward Churchill, the controversial former Colorado professor, who’s been pilloried for…
Courtesy of the Three Sonorans blog. Now here’s a quiz: What do all these people have in common? Just a coincidence, I’m sure…It’s the easiest thing in the world to label someone a Marxist, a commie or un-American. You don’t need any real evidence. All you need to do is…
I hate to be that guy, but we told you so. Last night Channel 12 aired news hound Joe Dana’s interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Chief Financial Officer Loretta Barkell concerning the $100 million Arpaio and his upper echelon pilfered from two protected funds. The money paid for witch-hunts of Arpaio’s…
A nativist nutcase sticks Corky Gonzales quotes into the cheap blender of her brain and makes mush of it allIt’s always amazing to me the way ignorance spreads like a vicious rash through the Internet. One idiot spouts some bull that the confirms the prejudices of the far right, it…
WHITE LIES Enemies of the Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic studies program would have the public believe that a cabal of commie educators are teaching revolution in TUSD’s classrooms. The reality is not quite as sexy as this vision of young Patty Hearsts, Huey Newtons, and Bernardine Dohrns getting groomed…
Will I miss having state Senate President Russell Pearce to kick around once he’s been recalled, his career ended in disgrace?Yes and no. Of course, I want to see this menace to humanity flattened (metaphorically) like a Looney Toons character crushed by a cartoon anvil. But, I must admit that…
As I type this, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and a number of local activist groups are having a press conference calling on Sheriff Joe Arpaio to resign and for the feds to take the sheriff’s office and the jails into receivership.Of course, I support that call, but I…
Los Lobos was never officially part of the Sound Strike, the musicians’ boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070, Sand Land’s notorious breathing-while-brown law. But when the old-school Chicano rock band announced the cancellation of a gig at Scottsdale’s Talking Stick Resort in June of 2010, they earned plaudits from many in…
The scriptures advise us that a gentle answer turneth away wrath. Apparently it has the effect of disarming Tea Baggers as well.That proverb was put to the test last Sunday at Phoenix’s Margaret T. Hance Park where a couple of hundred people gathered to celebrate International Workers’ Day, otherwise known…
Police in full riot gear, some tech-ed out SWAT-style with pepper-spray guns. A cop chopper overhead. Protesters locking arms to prevent police vehicles from moving. A 69 year-old activist on crutches arrested and cited, along with six others. Cops flinging demonstrators around like rag dolls.In other words, not your average…
Ethnic studies student Angelica Penaran takes a TUSD board member to the woodshedThe fight against the effort to slowly kill the Tucson Unified School District’s embattled Mexican-American ethnic studies program continues today with a TUSD board of governor’s meeting scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Last week, a TUSD vote on a proposal…
In the wake of President Barack Obama’s announcement that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has been killed by American forces during a firefight in Pakistan, I have a few predictions.The first is a given: traitorous right-wing nutjobs will not grant the Obama administration any credit for the kill. They also will…
With their own words and deeds, they are damned.I’m talking about what’s in the latest filings in the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office over claims that his anti-immigrant sweeps racially and ethnically profile Latinos in Maricopa County. Both sides in Melendres vs. Arpaio have asked for…
Attwood on Arpaio’s cockroachesBack in August, I wrote up my interview with former ecstasy kingpin Shaun Attwood, whose memoir Hard Time: A Brit in America’s Toughest Jail provides a harrowing account of his two years in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s medieval prison complex.Filth, cockroaches, a cornucopia of drugs, the neo-Nazi Aryan…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently tweeted that he will “speaking at [Arizona State University’s] Cronkite School of Journalism” today at 3 p.m.But if you’re expecting a repeat of the debacle that occurred in 2009 when Arpaio attended a public forum at ASU’s Cronkite School in downtown Phoenix, and questions from ASU dons…
