Protector of sheep, punisher of poor illegal immigrants… Is it any coincidence that on the same day the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office makes headlines for releasing an illegal immigrant from jail who’s suspected of subsequently murdering someone, Nickel-Bag Joe Arpaio announces he’s going to have his deputies bust illegal immigrants…
Riana Songstress-siren Riana, the sort of pale beauty of which the poets sing… With her almond eyes, raven tresses and a complexion stolen from the winter moon, PHX songstress Riana Riggs of bands Edison Gem and Runaway Diamonds is like one of those pale sirens Lord Byron wrote of years…
Sarah Donnelly isn’t having a great day. It’s her seventh birthday, and she’s surrounded by all her best friends. And a clown. And a pony. And a magician and a guy dressed like a cowboy and two women in suspenders with bright red yarn for hair and big hearts drawn…
Raise a talon if any of you birds of paradise are even mildly surprised that Republican Representative Rick Renzi’s name is smack dab in the middle of Gonzales-gate — you know, the ethical firestorm over the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ Justice Department? The…
Jim Torgeson is just a guy with a sign. Well, a guy with a sign and a crew of 150 other guys with signs who contract to stand in front of car dealerships around the Valley, pimping the wares. Unfortunately for Torgeson, holding a sign on a street corner in…
Why should Mexican nationals have more right to stay in this country than Chinese, Somalians or others who cant cross an open land border and must thus wait on the bureaucracy like everybody else? 700 Miles Isnt Long Enough Dear Gabacho: ‘Cause this land once belonged to Mexico — kidding!…
Flash Point The devil you dont: I have to admit that this is the first time I have ever written a letter to an editor, but after reading your vilification of Fire Chief Bob Khan I just had to (“The Fire Inside,” Sarah Fenske, March 15). I retired from the…
The curvaceous Shelly, aka DJ ///she///… Droogs Necro and Jules at the Sadisco Milk Bar… Cue Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, me droogies, I’ve just now found time to post these pics from A Clockwork Sadisco, the A Clockwork Orange -themed soiree thrown on a recent Saturday by those genius industrial/EBM whores…
www.poynter.org Great Zeus! Poynter’s Romesnesko finds the word “Repugnant,” repugnant. So Friday, I check Journalism God Jim Romenesko’s linkathon at the Poynter Institute Web site and I discover that he’s posted a link to a Phoenix Business Journal article from the same day reporting the news that Jon Talton’s bidding…
OutNow By order of the almighty Gannett and its faithful servant John Zidich, journalism as you know it will now cease to exist! Below is the makeup of the Arizona Republic’s new Information Center, the Orwellian Gannett construct which merges the newsroom with online, makes redundant a print paper, and…
http://www.philgordon.org/ Stick ’em up, pardner: Goober Gordon shootin’ air bullets, as usual. As if the murder report on the local nightly news wasn’t enough to convince you that you live in one of the most dangerous states in the nation, here comes a new study showing that — golly, gee…
Ain’t no cake walk for Flake’s new bill, but it does offer hope. At first glance, Rep. Jeff Flake’s new immigration reform bill seems to offer hope of a compromise on the issue between the pro and anti camps. It presents a pathway to legal residency for the 12 to…
Paris Troy Hotter than a Georgia firecracker; so hot you could bake bread on her back, or maybe a frozen pizza…uh, you get the picture. For some reason Thump Day Honey sounds a lot cooler than Hump Day Honey, and it also gives me an extra day to snag a…
http://www.almaweb.org/about/richard.htm Rep. columnist Ruelas is all smiles, despite the killing of his column. Following on the heels of the news of Jon Talton’s imminent departure at the Arizona Repugnant, I now learn that my other favorite columnist at the Rep, Richard Ruelas, has also had his column cut. Unlike Talton,…
Steve Bison of Alabama’s Cherokee River Indian Community says the war over 4-year-old Raven Laws may be traced back to the legendary Battle of Horseshoe Bend. “It’s a long story,” he says. Fought during the War of 1812, it pitted soldiers under the leadership of General Andrew Jackson and their…
Hmmm, this Phoenix firebird speaks with forked tongue — at least when it comes to the New Times story on white-trash diva Anna Nicole Smith’s Native American love child, “Tohono O’odham with Love” (March 8, 2007). Lest you’ve been on a spelunking expedition for the past two weeks, you’ll know…
Robin Scoins is the perfect face for the argument against Arizona Child Protective Services. And she believes that’s exactly why she’s drawn the ire of state representative Pete Hershberger. Three years ago, Scoins lost her newborn son to CPS custody. The agency claimed, falsely, that she’d tested positive for crystal…
A Child Shall Fool Them Editors note:We’re straying from our usual Letters format to publish an assortment of responses (edited from our Web site) to our satirical story on Anna Nicole Smith’s secret love child with a Tohono O’odham tribesman (see The Bird for complete details). Some readers caught on…
Dear Readers: Muchas, muchas responses to my March 8 column asking whether I should keep this column’s gold-toothed, mustachioed, sombrero-wearing fat Mexican logo and what should I name him. The overwhelming majority of ustedes support amnesty for the wab, but a few folks also made articulate arguments in favor of…
WikimediaCommons Rosie the Rotund takes a hit off the 9/11 troofer crackpipe. Proving true the adage that even a cracked clock is right twice a day, Mexican immigrant-basher Darrell Ankkkarlo of KTAR 92.3 FM dumped on roly-poly bigmouth Rosie O’Donnell this Tuesday morn re: her support for 9/11 conspiracy theories…
http://www.jontalton.com/ Someone crank up the Dion: “Anybody here seen my old friend Jon? Can you tell me where he’s gone?” Sadly, it seems the Arizona Republic’s massive reorganization, which I wrote about back in January, into an online Information Center that also happens to put out a daily paper, has…
A Royal pain: Tabloid talking head Royal Oakes Check this Friday, March 16 post from The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) concerning the Anna Nicole spoof and the somewhat preachy piece from the TV show that birthed Bill O’Reilly, Inside Edition: Phoenix New Times’ Anna Nicole Story is — Gasp!…
