9/11 Deniers’ Conference, Part Deux: In Irvine, this time…

Hey, would you guys be interested in learning about 9/11 conspiracy theories? Thought so… Christ, here we go again! ScrewLooseChange’s James Bennett has just reported on the upcoming “2007 Justice and Freedom Conference” to be held in Irvine, CA, March 9-12. This kook confab, part deux, is being hosted by…

Chez Nous lives! No, really this time….

Does this place have nine lives, or what? In the eleventh hour, Chez Nous gets a new lease on life… I’m not the first journo to have written an obit for Chez Nous, and seeing how things go with the tres cool nightspot, I probably won’t be the last. Now…

McCain Pain, The Friday Poll: Could John McCain be Prez?

The Manchurian Candidate? Do you really want this wacko’s finger on the button? Now that Arizona Senator John McCain has announced his candidacy for Prez on David Letterman, the question remains, does the dood have a popsicle’s chance in Hades of ever occupying the Oval Office? Personally, I don’t think…

Redemption Song

Gravel crunches under Ken Lamberton’s sneakers as he follows the Yetman Trail near the Tucson Mountains west of the city on a clear, cold morning in early January. Lamberton glances up and pauses. Above him, a large bird flies in circles. He identifies it as a red-tailed hawk and gives…

Hate Jock

“I am conservative, but I am not a right-wing nutjob,” claims KTAR 92.3 FM morning talk jock Darrell Ankarlo in a station promo tease. Oh, please allow this smart-ass starling to differ! Since that boneheaded blowhard took over the AM slot from nice-guy Pat McMahon (you know, the old fart…

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 1, 2007

Activist Grudges Got burned?: Thank you for stirring up hatred against patriotic Americans with your lying, slanted “profile” of me (“Burn, Baby, Burn!” Stephen Lemons, February 15). The power of the press to influence the ignorant is wonderfully illustrated by the hateful comments here. This article no more reflects who…

Lying, Stealing, and Teasing

As a kid, I grew up with Mexicans who stole things just to steal. As an adult, I see much of the same behavior from adult Mexicans and their children. And I don’t mean just the poor Mexicans. Why is it in their nature for Mexicans to steal? Larcenous Lester…

Chez Nous lives? For the moment, at least…

Will Chez Nous live to fight another day…? Seems we’ll know by tomorrow if the little soul bar that could will get a few more months in operation. For those who spied last week’s Bird column, the item titled “Adieu, Chez Nous” reported that the legendary Afro-chic waterin’ hole on…

Liar’s poker: Eric Williams and the Chandler 9/11 conference

Holocaust-denier Eric Williams at his conference booth on Sunday. While the rest of the civilized world was at home Sunday watching Marty Scorsese finally win an Oscar, I was hanging out with the conspiranuts at the Chandler 9/11 conference, and though I have only limited time because I’m on deadline…

Holocaust denier Eric D. Williams attends 9/11 Accountability Conference; Prof. James Fetzer defends anti-Semite

Holocaust denier Eric Williams (left) with NY 9/11 activist Sander Hicks (right) at the 9/11 Accountability “press conference” Friday, February 23, 2007. Despite statements on 911Accountability.org that Eric D. Williams had “stepped down from involvement in the 9/11 Accountability Conference,” Williams was present today (Friday) at a “press conference” for…

Arizona Republic publishes puff piece on Chandler 9/11 Conference

The Rep’s reportorial kitty cat: I could Google 9/11, but then I’d have to get off my ass. Following the East Valley Tribune’s verbal BJ of the 9/11 Accountability Conference taking place in Chandler this weekend, the Arizona Repugnant ran a totally uncritical puff piece on the confab in today’s…

Arrested Development

On Tuesday afternoon, January 16, an old man walked into the administrative office of a small charter school on the high desert plains north of Prescott. He was skinny, with floppy jowls that made him look like the Bitter Beer Face man of the old Keystone ads. But other than…

Space Rock Time Bomb

When Ryan McKay was in his early teens, he took his girlfriend to check out some regional band that had achieved a certain local-hero status back in his home state of Illinois, and afterward, they all went back to party in the band’s hotel room. Which was great until the…

Kook Congress

This ornery oriole’s been crowin’ loud and proud (“Denier’s Conference,” February 1) over the fallout from its revelation that Eric D. Williams, former director of this weekend’s 9/11 Accountability Conference in Chandler, is a Grade-A Holocaust denier, with a book to prove it. Williams’ The Puzzle of Auschwitz posits that…

Three-Question Especiál

Why does Arnold Schwarzenegger keep putting his foot in his mouth and talking smack about Mexicans? To my understanding, his wife Maria is of Mexican descent. He’s not only humiliating nuestra raza, but his wife, too. Please give the readers and me some input on the Governator. Deep Sea Angler…