Both the Huffington Post’s Dawn Teo and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now have produced long pieces in the past week covering Joe Arpaio’s recent outrages against those with brown skin, Arpaio’s “200 Mexican March” a couple of weeks ago, and the request from four House leaders, including House Judiciary Chairman John…
Curiosity’s driven me to write a little follow-up to my post Wednesday about the WASPy wieners at Skull and Bones being sued by the heirs of the Apache warrior Geronimo. They’re suing because it’s rumored that Yale’s secret society has possession of Geronimo’s skull, you see. According to legend, George W. Bush’s grandpappy…
In what appears to be a major coup for the activists organizing the anti-Arpaio action the weekend of February 28, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has announced through a press release that firebrand frontman Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine fame is encouraging people to join…
I know it’s been, like, two whole months, but do ya recall that lousy three-episode pilot Sheriff Self-Shill shot for the lame-o Fox Reality Channel, Smile…You’re Under Arrest? Remember Joe plugging it on Conan O’Brien, and elsewhere, claiming that the reality series nabbed almost 400 warrant scofflaws? Well, this piece…
My question is, what took ’em so long? I’m talking about the descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo demanding his remains back from “one hundred years of imprisonment at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut, and wherever else they may be found,” according to a…
I was planning to save most of this for my Bird column this week, but the news is coming too fast and furious today not to follow up on my recent post concerning Randi Rhodes’ disappearance from Nova M radio. Indeed, that lefty AM talk network seems to be going down…
I don’t think Carson Daly or Jay Leno’ll be breaking a sweat over this one any time soon, but I just got a little promo e-mail in my in-box announcing the launch of ex-Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods’ “new interactive website and online talk show” grantwoods.com. What’s next, Terry Goddard…
With every statement uttered from her perch as Homeland Security czar, in every action she takes each day her fanny remains in its cozy D.C. seat, ex-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano reaffirms that she’s Barack Obama’s token nativist. Best to think of her as a chunky, skunk-haired version of the Child…
PCP. Peyote. Embalming fluid. Nicaraguan horse dung. See, I’m trying to figure out what the hell’s in the water cooler over at Nova M, as owners Anita Drobny and hubby Sheldon point the nose of the plane toward the ground and up the speed. Believe me, I say this as a…
Porn star and possible politician with fringe benefits, Wicked Pictures contract girl Stormy Daniels, was in Phoenix last week, feature dancing at Le Girls Cabaret. Sadly, I missed her performance. In another life, I interviewed the voluptuous Louisiana native for a feature called “Cooking with the Porn Stars” for the now-defunct graffiti…
In what may be a watershed moment in the battle to end Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s anti-Hispanic pogroms and his abuse of his federal 287(g) authority, the leadership of the House Judiciary Committee is pressing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano to investigate Sheriff Joe and to make sure his use of his 287(g)…
Looks like February will be going out like a lion, with a massive anti-Joe protest scheduled for the 28th demanding the termination of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 287(g) agreement. Some 70 activist groups will march by the Arizona ICE office, the Wells Fargo Tower, where the MCSO has its executive offices,…
Is there a lip-flapper at the Mormon Church-owned, right-wing talk radio station KTAR 92.3 FM that doesn’t have his lips surgically connected to Joe Arpaio’s flaccid penis? Excluding, perhaps, Phil Hendrie? The answer, of course, is, “No.” But at least most of KTAR’s saliva jockeys bother to blow our corrupt…
It’s not every day you get to chat with a former President of the United States. And since President Jimmy Carter will be in town on Friday, signing copies of his book We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work at Changing Hands bookstore in…
So, Maria, what took you so long? The two e-mail missives below just arrived via third parties, and though I’ve yet to receive an official confirmation from the AZ Democratic Party, the letter from party Executive Director Maria Weeg announcing her resignation seems genuine. (It ain’t April Fools’ Day, I…
For those who doubt Phoenix graffiti writers have the stuff to invade the realm of fine art, Scottsdale’s Bentley Gallery has a one word rebuttal: DOSE. The PHX’s sultan of street art is known for his work with the Forever in Control art collective, which is in turn known for…
A video of Joe’s medieval Mexican march from the organization Puente. Two timely videos have made their way to me. The first is from Sal Reza’s organization Puente, and documents Joe Arpaio’s racist 200 Mexican March last week segregating undocumented and mostly Mexican inmates from Tent City’s general population. You may…
To cop a line from that Don McLean song, somewhere Satan is laughing in delight. And Zona Republicans are laughing right along with him. This, at the news that Arizona state Democratic Party Chair Paul Eckerstrom has resigned his post after scoring an upset victory against former state party chair…
Literally, it’s the most inane piece of twaddle I’ve read since the days when erstwhile pop star Jewel penned poetry. I’m talkin’ about O.J. Simpson-expert and CNN talking head Jeffrey Toobin’s suggestion in a post for The New Yorker online that ex-Arizona guv and DHS honch-ess Janet Napolitano would be…
The Gray Lady of Journalism boldly ventures where Arizona’s paper of record shudders to tread. Today the New York Times, in a scathing editorial, slammed Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s medieval 200 Mexican March on Wednesday, and demanded that Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano, and her boss President Barack Obama, do something…
KTAR’s reporting that Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas called Arpaio’s jail segregation of undocumented Hispanics “unconstitutional” in a press conference today. Apparently, Thomas cleared the statement with the “male” in the Arpaio-Thomas relationship, and there are no hard feelings between the two.”I have taken the consistent position that racial and…
Ever since Janet Napolitano’s nomination to be director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, some liberals and immigrant rights activists have held out hope that Napolitano would rein in the excesses of the department’s 287(g) program and its worksite enforcement raids. The New York Times trumpeted her as “the…
