A Word to Joe Arpaio Foes on the Huffington Post’s Cynicism

The latest video from HumanLeague002 and Puente. There is one sure way to prove the cynical, prissy pundits, the professional tut-tutters right in regards to Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Do nothing. “Do nothing” is essentially the message to the streets from Huffington Post’s Dawn Teo, a former PR rep who now lives in…

Hot Links: Light Rail, Meth Salon, and Pelosi’s Capitol Cats

A spokesman for APS says the company’s seen a 45 percent increase in power thefts, with people running cables to utility lines or neighbors’ homes. APS says high jacking power is not only illegal, but dangerous, and vows to prosecute power thieves. SRP, on the other hand, reports that power…

Father Shoots Baby In Finger During Family Fight, Say Cops

Chandler cops say this individual, 22-year-old Alex Acedo of Chandler, shot his baby girl during a domestic dispute with the girl’s mother. Initial reports by cops that the shooting was an accident were apparently incorrect. The mother, 23-year-old Alex Vera, had been holding the 7-month-old baby, Emily, when Acedo fired the…

Statue of Sleeping Mexican First Covered in New Times Offends, Then Disintegrates

Who could possibly think it’d be a good idea to build an over-sized statue of a stereotypical, sombrero-wearin’ lazy Mexican out of sand and put it in the middle of the desert? The far-out cats at Arizona State University’s Future Arts Research, that’s who. As New Times writer Kathleen Vanesian covered in the paper’s March 5 edition,…

Jerry Springer Star William Windsor, aka, “Baby Man”: The Cause of His Crib Death Revealed

Though questions remain, the autopsy report is in on the onetime Broadway actor, country-western singer, and ultimately, full time diaper-wearer William “Baby Man” Windsor, who was discovered dead in his Phoenix home on January 30. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Windsor suffered from acid reflux, chronic alcoholism, and hypertensive heart…

ASU Held Up by New York Times as Example of University That Reached Too High

This isn’t the New York Times story about Arizona State University that Michael Crow (pictured) hoped his former colleagues at Columbia University would ever have to read. Crow, the president of ASU, has received plenty of criticism over the years for his grandiose plans to expand the university while simultaneously polishing…

“The Ballad of Joe Arpaio” Hits the Blogosphere

A buddy just sent us a link to this cool little story in the New York Times.  Seems that a factory worker from Long Island named Saul Linares recently penned a little corrido — those wonderful Latino folk ditties about love, murder, and about everything between. The subject? Maricopa Country’s duly elected sheriff. Linares is originally…

Maricopa County Supervisors Spend $14,600 Sweeping for Bugs

It seems like the very definition of paranoia: Spending thousands of dollars sweeping for hidden electronic devices — and finding none.But that’s what Maricopa County Supervisors are doing — with your money.The county has now spent $14,600 sweeping for bugs on the 10th floor of the county building at 301…