Sun Tzu, the first Republican? Back in the 6th Century B.C., renowned Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu wrote in his seminal treatise The Art of War that all warfare is based on deception. One might apply this observation to modern politics, which is war by other means, to paraphrase Clausewitz…
Buddha by the PHX’s El Mac and El Lay’s RETNA. Nice to know the ink-slingers over at New Times’ sister paper in L.A. have some taste. I might’ve thought otherwise had they not – ironically – chosen an image from one of the most talented street artists in the PHX…
Dumbass songstress Kay Rivoli, wonderin’ why she has to press 1 for English. Rusty Childress has the problem licked, he just gives Spanish speakers their own # to call. One of the incessant whines of the nativist crowd has to do with having to press 1 for English (as opposed…
What a mother! One of the latest Bird boycott letters, signed by Stephanie Harris of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens As Feathered Bastard’s co-clucker The Bird mentioned this week in his column, Rusty’s World, some New Times advertisers have been receiving various versions of the above form letter, distributed at Randy…
Hey, that’s one way to keep him off the OxyContin… It’s a rare event when I agree with the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and so on. But when it comes to liberals and prominent Democrats who want to revive the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” the…
In my ongoing attempt to spotlight what noteworthy PHX graff I can find out on those much-buffed streets, here are a few snaps I shot this Sunday while driving around. One is definitely from the SOS crew, the others I have no idea about, so feel free to school me…
Yours truly with rocker Evan Seinfeld and the hella-hot Tera Patrick… Porn mogul and First Amendment defender Larry Flynt has long been my personal hero. Technically, he’s also my old boss, as I used to write for Hustler back in the day, though I’ve only talked to him while interviewing…
The Chez’s beauties: Gyana (left); Naima (right); and Amina Uben (center), mother of both. It’s been such a hectic week with the Fourth and all, that I haven’t had a chance to blog about the last night at Chez Nous, the 40-plus year-old drinking parlor at Indian School Rd. and…
Unrelated to the following, an actual pink firearm that I found at www.jimsgunsupply.com. A national underground movement of pink pistol packin’ lesbos runnin’ around, attacking het doods, and forcibly “indoctrinating” straight chicks into the lesbian lifestyle? As Paris Hilton would say, “That’s hot.” Sadly, it’s not true, though when I…
Ready and waiting for Russell Pearce to mount… Surprise, surprise. Lacking the political cover of a successful U.S. Senate immigration reform package, AZ’s spineless chief executive yesterday signed into law a seriously flawed Russell Pearce piece of legislation, the sole intent of which is to discriminate against those with brown…
Run Goober, Run: Gordon can’t escape tough questions from his own party. (Photo from Phil’s Web site.) Saturday, I made my way down to the Maricopa County Democratic Party convention being held on the west side at the Carpenter Union Training Center because both Mayor Phil “Goober” Gordon and Jarrett…
The last drink pours Saturday… Phoenix’ll be a lot less cool for the next couple of months, and I ain’t talkin’ about the friggin’ heat island. This Saturday, the venerable soul lounge Chez Nous pours its final cocktail after 40-plus years in the drink-slingin’ biz. The Chez’s been forced out…
Counterdemos at the June 16 racist fest: Multiply this by about 300, make it meaner than a junkyard dog, and it’d be just about right to battle assholes like… …Buffalo Dick. For the moment, the retard rednecks have won. A vocal, vile, and sometimes violent minority of American citizens –…
BFF? J.T. Ready and Russell Pearce arm-in-arm, from the white nationalist White Knights of America Web site. The degree to which vile extremist organizations and individuals are welcomed into the fold of Arizona’s anti-immigration movement never ceases to amaze me. In other states, sharing a stage with a white supremacist…
Sending out an SOS…? Everyone knows Phoenix is a sucky town for graffiti. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. Not to say there aren’t some really talented writers, taggers, piecers and straight-up artists out there. The Mac comes to mind on the mural/street-art tip, though I think he…
AZ’s anti-immigrant Erma Bombeck… Maybe the AZ Repugnant’s soccer-momish columnist Laurie Roberts isn’t a Hispanic-hatin’ hausfrau, but she sure sounds like one sometimes. Take Lame-o Laurie’s latest screed, her June 23rd opinion piece titled “Another victim of uncontrolled border,” in which she blames a death by DUI on the lack…
Hartley (right) and I at Saturday’s prejudice party, pic from Arizona.indymedia.org . A few tidbits more about last Saturday’s bigot bash at the AZ Capitol. At the very end, I got into what you might call a spirited discussion with the master of ceremonies, this dood Todd “Twinkle Toes” Hartley,…
Yuk it up: Our clown of a constable just cost us another $2 mil. Hear the giant sucking sound? That’s another $2 million being drained from Maricopa County’s tax coffers on behalf of those who’ve perished in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s gulags. Today the MC Board of Supervisors finally released details…
Bosom bigot buddies: J.T. Ready (in suit) and Rep. Russell Pearce (in flag shirt) work the crowd together. Like you needed more proof that AZ’s nativist movement is riddled with racists, rednecks, and raving wing-nuts, the anti-immigrant protest at the state capitol this Saturday (6/16) featured a rabble-rousing speech by…
Come on baby, light my fire: Burlesque Baroness Pyra Sutra at burn nightclub. See more babeage on parade in this Scandalesque slideshow. Starry, starry night. Not the sappy Don McLean tune of yore. Starry night’s what they call the shots I’ve been pounding at downtown’s new burn nightclub: a mix…
Chill out people, it’s just water. Um, at least it looked like water… I hate to say I told you so. Actually, who am I kiddin’? I LOVE telling you I told you so. On May 31, The Bird squawked about an insane new law Governor Janet “Manet” Napolitano signed…
Goddard standing tall: If he ever investigates Candy and/or Sheriff Joe, I may go gay for him! In a startling development that’s the AZ state government equivalent of standing up to the schoolyard bully, Attorney General Terry Goddard has told Sheriff Joe to go eff himself, informing asshole Arpaio that…
