OH, MAMMA Tough love was needed: The nightmarish details of this trip are astounding (“Eurotrashed,” Megan Irwin, September 13). However, the students and the adults who hold “Mamma D” blameless are fools. This woman recklessly abandoned her role as the adult in charge; being popular meant more to her than…
Dear Readers: A couple of weeks ago, I asked half-breeds to write in with nicknames that describe their mixed Mexican heritage. Many, muchos responses continue to trickle in — gracias for the submissions. Following is a handy glossary that ustedes wrote, with the occasional Mexican commentary. Enjoy! If you’re half-Mexican…
It came as little surprise to most people in the know that Buckeye Police Chief Dan Saban lost his recent defamation trial against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and company. That’s not to say that Saban didn’t have legitimate gripes with how key members of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office had worked…
Know what Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris has in common with Joe Arpaio henchman David Hendershott and County Attorney lapdog Barnett Lotstein? Nah, they’re not subscribers to Cosmo, though that was this mischievous mallard’s first guess, too. Give up? They’ve all figured out how to increase their salaries by doing…
It doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Banned in Boston,” but Phoenix New Times could be “Banned in the Chandler Library” if this dip Larry Edwards gets his way. Edwards is reportedly the prig who complained to the Chandler Library about New Times being on the shelves of the…
Slain PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle. Like you needed more proof we live in the Wild Wild West: PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle was shot dead Tuesday morning in Central Phoenix, during rush hour, after stopping a man for jaywalking, and attempting to arrest him for priors. This was near…
Supporters of convicted Border Patrol Agents Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and Jose Compean often tout the case as a miscarriage of justice, an instance where two true-blue BPAs ended up the victims of an overzealous prosecutor. As I stated in my recent Bird column “Anti-Heroes,” it’s obvious from the transcripts of…
El Diablo… Still wicked… The true victim… Is Laurie Roberts trying to sprout a conscience? Does she no longer wish to be the Repugnant’s soccer-momish Queen of Mean? On Wednesday, she was decrying ASU Prez Michael Crow for using private donations to fund undocumented students. She claimed Crow was thumbing…
Fred Goldman on Oprah: If you spot him in the men’s section at Nordstrom, don’t ask to try on the size 12 Bruno Maglis… Anyone catch the Valley’s most famous Nordstrom employee on Oprah yesterday? I’m talking about the silver-mustachioed Fred Goldman, father of O.J. Simpson-victim Ron. See, Goldman, who…
Dean Martin’s new song: Everybody hates somebody sometime… Immediately after AZ State Treasurer Dean Martin was informed by The Arizona Republic that ASU’s Michael Crow was helping undocumented students with private funds, ya know what he said? “Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for them, and this is…
CRETIN HOP An exception for Virginia?: What happened to Virginia Gutierrez is an outrage that’s just beginning (“No, Virginia,” Stephen Lemons, The Bird, August 30). My prediction is that we’re going to see more and more of this as the illegal immigration debate continues in this country. That is, more…
I am addressing this to both ¡Ask a Mexican! and Savage Love, hoping one of you will have an answer to this: Why do Mexican chicks yell for their papi during sex? Daddy del Diablo Dear Readers: Daddy del Diablo sent the above query to both the Mexican and Dan…
Is it possible this nutty nightingale actually had fun at a nativist hoedown? Specifically one where half the crowd would’ve loved to tear this toucan a new one? What can The Bird say? It was a hoot crossing swords with all the anti-illegal immigrant types present at a recent fundraiser…
Pinal County Supervisor Sandie Smith stood at her front door, barefoot, and she did not want to talk. She had ignored three phone calls, opportunities to answer claims that she is running restaurateur Dale Bell out of business. “That’s between the county attorney and him,” Smith said. Actually it was…
When Jamie Bates boarded Delta Flight 86 bound for London, she was excited and a little nervous. She’d just graduated and was about to set off on the trip of a lifetime: 28 days in Europe with 80 current and former Dobson High School students. Her family paid more than…
Go back to Mexico, honors students! And take your little dog, Toto, too… I could envision Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts turning over Jews to the Gestapo. This is assuming she jumped in the way-back machine and time-traveled to Hitler’s Germany. After all, that was the law back then, right?…
Give ’em hell, Yoda… Just listened to the Yoda of 9/11, aka Pat Curley, on The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge, an excellent radio talk-show out of Calgary. The subject, of course, is those wacky troofers, and Breakenridge and Curley get into some interesting areas during the hour-long segment. Of…
I love these guys. Need a break from all the anti-immigrant hate-mongers out there, the Terry Andersons, Lou Dobbses, Michael Savages and so on who make their livings spewing forth venom and bile onto the poorest, meekest members of our society? Then check out this episode of the Penn and…
From the Omaha Nazi rally, J.T.’s the second from the right. The Ernst Roehm of East Valley, former Mesa City Council candidate J.T. Ready has been lying low for a while, at least since I saw him arm-in-arm with AZ state Rep. Russell Pearce, after his rabble-rousing speech at the…
Virginia’s North High School yearbook photo. Another yearbook photo, with Virginia on the left. A stunning development regarding the case of deported teen Virginia Gutierrez: Twelve days after Gutierrez signed voluntary deportation papers and was placed on a bus bound for Nogales, a bench warrant was issued for Gutierrez’s arrest…
Two supporters of Virginia Gutierrez, shortly after Wednesday’s rally. A peaceful rally on behalf of deported teen Virginia Gutierrez was disrupted Wednesday at the state capitol by an ugly mob of bigoted rednecks shouting inanities about the Iraq War and mocking speakers with sarcastic “Boo-hoos.” The counterdemonstrators appeared towards the…
HOME ALONE But shes a contributor: It was sad to read about young Virginia Gutierrez being deported to Mexico (“No, Virginia,” The Bird, August 30). She’s obviously someone we want to keep here — an honor student — yet there doesn’t appear to be deportation leeway with the law when…
