By Stephen Lemons South Mountain Community College shot up like the OK Corral. A judge orders Steve Berman to give up guns. (Now we can sleep easy.) Richard and Nelson eat Candy for lunch. DMX’s courtroom rap. Old Man McCain raises less than Obama in Sand Land. (Could the state…
By Stephen Lemons The Republic smooches BOS butt in reporting yesterday’s protest. Joe Dana updates Honduras-gate while Hendershott’s on vacay. (Beijing, maybe?) Cubs clobber D-backs, while Dockett and Boldin make Cards camp. Young Republicans say McCain’s lame. (Who knew?) American Idol auditions tomorrow. Serial predator details, speed cameras, right wing-nuts,…
Ipso schmucko, going down kinda like the dog he pretended to kill in Grand Rapids, Michigan. What’s the latest from the Old Pueblo and the ongoing donnybrook between Isabel Garcia and those who’ve taken the Pima County Legal Defender to task for her hoisting the head of a Sheriff Joe…
PUNCHING PEARCE It’s the most loaded query in PHX politics lately: “So, when did you stop beating your wife?” Truly, Valley news has been reading like a recap of that Julia Roberts flick Sleeping with the Enemy. Or maybe that made-for-the-small-screen drama The Burning Bed, starring a post-Charlie’s Angels Farrah…
Nativists and activists and Sheriff’s deputies, oh, my! We ain’t in Kansas, no more, Toto. Rather, we’re in P-town, at the Board of Stoopervisors meeting. I mean, Supervisors, of course. And if last month’s demo before the Supes’ auditorium downtown at 205 W. Jefferson Street is any indication, then we…
Russell Pearce “is possessed of a violent temper,” according to a 1980 court document signed by his wife LuAnne. That old example of a loaded question, “So, when did you stop beating your wife?” seems weirdly applicable in Valley political circles these days. First, there’s the June 26 incident involving…
A flier for U.S.A.’s upcoming supremacist shindig: Regarding the dress code, we hear white sheets are optional. Next Saturday afternoon should be a pretty rowdy one in Phoenix’s tony Biltmore Fashion Park. Not only will Sheriff Joe be appearing at the Borders Books there to promote his latest work of…
A stinging indictment of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the MCSO. That’s how the lawsuit filed yesterday by the Arizona ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, (MALDEF) and the Phoenix law firm Steptoe and Johnson, against Joe, the MCSO and Maricopa County reads. Brought on behalf of five…
Video of the Tucson protest of Arpaio, from Jon Justice’s 1041TheTruth, showing a Sheriff Joe piñata being beaten and Isabel Garcia scooping up its head. Like you need more proof that times are way-way-slow down in the “Old Pueblo,” Tucson radio wing nut “Jon Justice” is hunting the head of…
Tears of a clown? Joe’s afraid of the big, bad Mesa police chief. So I return from my brief respite from the sad insanity of Maricopa County to see that mean ol’ Sheriff Joe’s still so scared of Mesa Police Chief George Gascon that our cowardly top constable won’t even…
Brandy au naturel, from her Web site brandysmassage.com. I’ll be out of pocket for the next couple of days, and so will not be able to blog as normal. There will be some catching up to do Monday, on the new Cave Creek raid and the series on Joe in…
Will J.T. be at the big debate Thursday? And more importantly, will he be in uniform? The call’s gone out from ex-KIA peddler Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America, the most militant outfit of racist knuckledraggers in the Valley: Their old buddy state Rep. Russell Pearce, aka, Mr. Ethnic…
Bruce Starr at the Super Bowl. The image is from the Honduras radio personality’s February report on his trip in Honduras This Week Online. Let’s return to Honduras for a moment and check in with Sheriff’s office pal “Roatan Bruce” Starr, a radio-personality in the Bay Islands, Honduras who also…
Senator Jesse Helms, no-longer-living evidence that the good die young… The caustic sensation of hatred and bile inching up the back of my throat: It’s the same feeling I used to get as a teenager in North Carolina, as I watched Republican Senator Jesse Helms play the race card over…
Buffalo Rick, just outside the Macehualli Work Center, nearby where he’s alleged to have taken an illegal public piss. Local anti-immigrant activist and alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener inched a tad closer to trial today on a March 8 incident in which Galeener stands accused of taking an al…
MR. PITIFUL Why, The Bird’s never seen Sheriff Joe Arpaio lookin’ so used up and beat as he appeared at the Barnes & Noble in Surprise during a recent Saturday-afternoon book-signing for Joe’s Law, which was ripped a new one by the Taloned One’s stenographer the other day (“America’s Meanest…
Jeez, Joe, take a nap, will ya? You’re too old to keep up this pace… Ancient oldsters being wheeled around by their 70-year-old “children.” Blue-hairs lugging about their own oxygen tanks. A withered old crone with literally one tooth in her mouth, eager to get her book signed. The occasional…
The Silver Fox, Mesa Police Chief George Gascon, outwitted and outmaneuvered Sheriff Joe on Thursday. See a slideshow of yesterday’s events, here. So where was Joe yesterday afternoon for the big Mesa sweep? Pro-immigrant protesters were out in full force in front of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office substation in…
It was all love from the mostly alter kocker crowd of Sheriff Joe supporters at the Barnes & Noble near Pima and Shea in Scottsdale, with Arpaio addressing the seated senior citizens before signing copies of his book Joe’s Law: America’s Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs and Everything Else…
The Shaq video that’s got the whole world yappin’, even mean, ol’ Sheriff Joe… By now, nearly everyone’s seen the freakin’ hi-larious clip above of Suns center Shaquille O’Neal dissin’ the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant for not being able to take an NBA championship without him, bustin’ rhymes like, “You know…
Joe giving the oldsters a thrill at the recent Scottsdale booksigning. One thing I like about these ongoing protests of Sheriff Joe signing his book Joe’s Law at Barnes and Noble stores throughout the Valley, is that they strip away the veneer of bullshit that overlays everything to do with…
Randy Parraz of the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability following his grilling of the Supes this past Thursday. Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meetings resemble a cross between kabuki theater and Stalinist show trials. Brown-shirted MCSO deputies line the walls. Speakers are cut off at three minutes, or threatened…
