Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 23, 2007

UP IN SMOKE Time to legalize: With regard to Ray Stern’s story about expensive bongs (“The Bong Show,” August 16), it was recently reported by the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime that 12.6 percent of all Americans between the ages of 15 and 64 admitted to using pot at…

Los Lipstick Lesbianas

Dear Readers: It’s not just questions and racist rants that invade the Mexican’s mailbox — your feedback sneaks under my digital fence, tambin. Let’s start with Lean Like a K Street Chola, a gangbanger-turned-lobbyist who wrote in a couple of weeks back wondering how she could explain to quizzical pals…

Death Wish

Last spring, family and friends gathered at a service for Jana Van Voorhis, a 58-year-old Phoenix woman who recently had died at her home. The memorial took place outside at the Greenwood Memory Lawn and Mortuary on West Van Buren, where Jana’s mother, Mary Jane, had been laid to rest…

The Last Word

For Wesley Smith, author of Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, the circumstances surrounding the death of Jana Van Voorhis provide a chilling example of a movement running amuck. “This is the secret that a lot of media has not reported much on,” says Smith,…

Grand Wizard Arpaio

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 pic of “Nickel Bag” Joe Arpaio in KKK garb about to lynch a Latino. The photo’s made the rounds of late under the slug, “cosas curiosas en…

Daddy’s Little Girl

As far as whoppers go, Congressman Ed Pastor’s explanation was right up there with “the check’s in the mail” and “I’ll call you tomorrow.” When asked earlier this month whether he was using his influence to raise money for his daughter’s Phoenix City Council campaign, the congressman shrugged. “I don’t…

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

(photo from Deagle’s NutriMedical.com site) The Albert Einstein of moonbats? 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 nutters, Pat Curley, of Screw Loose Change. It’s Pat’s co-blogger James Bennett, the Mace Windu of debunkers,…

Molly Crabapple turns, well, crabby…

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 about? NY artist Molly Crabapple must be feeling the heat for her illustration of this week’s Bird column on the Scottsdale tranny-Tom Anderson row, titled “Tranny…

More Jobs Americans Won’t Do

I had a heated discussion in my vanpool with a couple of gringos in which they made a comment that immigration (both legal and illegal) needs to stop. I replied jokingly, “Then who will take our orders at McDonalds or work in the fields?” They had the nerve to tell…

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 16, 2007

BUS FOLLY A real “no-brainer”: Regarding buses . . . Let’s see, who were those other contractors bidding on the contracts (“Taken for a (Bus) Ride,” Sarah Fenske, August 9)? Where were the quotes from those contractors who felt “cheated” that they did not get the contract? The mayor did…

Tranny Tweeter

Aside from rumors of the dodo’s demise during his time spent writing last week’s cover story, “The Yoda of 9/11,” the most rib-ticklin’ this rooster’s received of late has been from observing Sand Land’s liberal elites fall over themselves to offer Zonies a tranny in every bog, a chick with…

Danger Ahead

After the tragic highway collapse in Minneapolis two weeks ago, Governor Janet Napolitano assigned the Arizona Department of Transportation to inspect every highway bridge in Arizona. Of course, there was no real worry, she said, but she wanted to make an “extra effort” to ensure our safety. Exactly seven days…

The Bong Show

The glass glows dull red, like a campfire ember, above the gas torch. The young artist, sitting on a stool in front of a wooden bench with a metal top, works with confident, quick motions, creating a tube by fusing white glass sticks together around a one-inch-thick cylinder of graphite…

Klan Grand Wizard Joe Arpaio?

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 if this might be beyond the pale somehow. Looks like a very legitimate political…

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

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 some points about so-called left gatekeepers, Noam Chomsky and whether or not the 9/11 “truth” movement is left-wing,…

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

David Ray Griffin, laughing all the way to the bank? Retired religion prof. David Ray Griffin is currently the leading intellectual light of the 9/11 movement, a position once held, it could be argued, by bombastic saliva-spewer Jim Fetzer, himself a professor of philosophy. Of course, being the leading light…