Letters From the Issue of Thursday, February 15, 2007

Undue Process That’s the ticket!: I was ticked off when I read your photo-radar story (“Gotcha!,” Ray Stern, February 8). That corporations can get out of the tickets is outrageous enough, but that city governments — in towns that employ photo radar to nail drivers, no less — don’t pay…

Burn, Baby, Burn!

With her silver power-mullet, support hose, and ankle-length leopard-print skirt, Laine Roberta Lawless is a cross between Ma Barker, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and South Park school-bus driver Mrs. Crabtree (minus the bird in her hair). Actually, Lawless, 57, is more like the Carrie Nation of the anti-illegal-immigration movement, but…

Rock the Vote

Shortly before the 2004 presidential election, Dale Schwartz decided to register to vote. “It was a big election, and everyone was stressing how important it was,” says Schwartz, a Phoenix resident. “Honestly, I just had had enough of Bush.” Alas, the bill collector, now 55, didn’t get his way, as…

Pass the Arroz, Chely

Dear readers: Mucho comments about my February 1 column regarding the metamorphosis of Mexican names into seemingly wacky nicknames — Nini from Alejandrina, for instance, or Chely from Araceli. I argued such changes occurred thanks to linguistic laws; some of you had other theories. Here are the best: Here’s what…

Online captives Alessandra Soler Meetze, Dylan Avery and Alex Jones set free in virtual dinghy by local 9/11 kooks! Will Holocaust denier Eric Williams go down with the ship?

So whose idea was it to put a Holocaust denier in charge? Looks like convicted felon Kent “Cow Killer” Knudson, the “chief cook” of the 9/11 deniers’ conference in Chandler, has finally removed the names and pics of those who’ve bailed on his sinking ship of a symposium. At last,…

Hump Day Honey #3, Valentine’s Edition: De-Lovely Leah

www.Tempe12.com Brown-eyed siren Leah, a V-day gift from above. If last week’s Wednesday dime was naughty, this week’s is so sweet just gazing at her pics will fill your grill with cavities. Tempe 12 Covergirl Leah was born on Valentine’s Day exactly 21 years ago, and imagine if you will…

Free the AZ ACLU’s Alessandra Soler Meetze!

How many nuts are left in the 9/11 Accountability can? Ask Kent Knudson. It’s less than two weeks before the 9/11 Accountability conference is to be held in Chandler, AZ, and a whole week after the AZ ACLU’s executive director Alessandra Soler Meetze withdrew her name as a participant. But…

The Friday Poll: Anna Nicole Smith, do you give a rat’s ass?

“Goodbye, Norma Jean…” Anna Nicole and I, moments before she buried my grill in her massive cleavage. Can someone punch up Elton John’s Candle in the Wind? Yes, as our year of national mourning begins for Anna Nicole Smith, with zeppelin-like statues to be erected in her honor and her…

How To Beat a Photo-Enforcement Ticket

Don’t speed or run red lights. (Don’t run red lights. Well, okay, but never speed? Hello!) Know where the cameras are: Paradise Valley: Three intersections with red light and speed cameras: Tatum Boulevard and Lincoln Drive, Tatum Boulevard and McDonald Road, and Lincoln Drive and Mockingbird Lane. The Town also…

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, February 8, 2007

Fascist and Furious What do you want the boy to do?: For the first time since living in Arizona, I’m truly afraid. After reading the story of how Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his thugs rat-fucked (as the Nixon Administration used to say) Dan Saban and got away with it (“Boob’s…

Special Sexo Edition

Dear Readers: Gracias to all of ustedes who submitted pictures for my racist Mexican restaurant logo contest — they were all muy bueno. Winners will be announced in a couple of weeks. In the meanwhile, say a spicy bienvenidos to readers of Las Vegas CityLife, the latest paper to carry…

Leveled?

With its cavernous spaces, handsome brick walls, and soaring ceilings supported by intricate wooden trusses, Bentley Projects is as easy on the eyes as any of the high-end artwork you might see on display there. Wandering through the upscale gallery, bookstore, and cafe that now occupy the space, it’s hard…

Gotcha!

The beginning of last year was hectic for Francesca Cisneros, an energetic young businesswoman who was heading up a new mortgage office in Phoenix. She was working 12-hour-plus days, zooming around town to meetings with her phone earpiece under her long, dark hair and her Blackberry within arm’s reach. Cisneros,…

Burned

When prosecutors accused the owners of Ajo Al’s of violating the county’s health code and sickening diners, it took the restaurateurs seven months to get their day in court — but only four hours of testimony for the judge to toss out the charges against them. Arcadia Justice Court Judge…

9/11 South Park: Who dropped a deuce in the urinal?

www.southparkstudios.com With the Hardly Boys on the case, those “troofers” will be outed in no time. 9/11 conspiracy nuts causing you massive migraines? Tired of reading their retarded Web sites and watching their home made DVDs? Ready to hurl whenever some walleyed closet case tries to convince you the WTC…

Hump Day Honey #2: Cookie Monster

www.myspace.com/ppgprez Imagine munching out on this Cookie… Please forgive. Late getting this post up due to technical difficulties. But we seem to be back in the saddle now. This week, our Wednesday wench is a pyromaniac in the sack with men and women alike, and oh don’t I wish I…