Bird Boycott

The Bird, a racist? That’s the accusation leveled by a cowardly campaign of avian-haters, featuring form letters denouncing this funky feathered fiend being sent to some New Times advertisers. The malignant missives are addressed “Dear Business Owner” and sound like some nasty little chain-mail scheme from back in the day…

Useful Idiots

How does Sheriff Joe Arpaio get away — metaphorically speaking — with murder? With the assistance of useful idiots in the Fourth Estate, as this P.O.d parakeet has witnessed time and time again. Whether he’s deputizing Spider-Man, throwing some imbecilic Inmate Idle competition or making the asinine suggestion that Paris…

Old Spice Covers Dick Cheese

Smokin’ cheddar: The amazing Dick Cheese with his band, sans Old Spice… Can you smell it, people — the magical aroma of Dick Cheese with Old Spice? Whether loving homage or (more likely) blatant rip-off, the new Old Spice commercial featuring Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell crooning a lounge-y version…

G-man Jackoff: FBI Agent caught with pants down at UofA

J. Edgar Hoover must be rollin’ over in his bloomers: One of his FBI agents, a hardened criminal? That’s the tale told by campus cops at Tucson’s University of Arizona, where Agent Ryan Seese was arrested May 3, shortly after a cleaning lady observed him whackin’ off in the women’s…

Year of the Goat

This B-ball-lovin’ loon’s madder than Alec Baldwin on a cell phone call to his daughter! Over the Suns’ 114-106 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, of course. Why, this crestfallen kingfisher consumed an entire bottle of Old Crow to drown its dejection…

Axe to fall on Scottsdale Tribune? It doesn’t look good…

Gee, Captain Horne, you think we’ll last till September? Though the last thing the PHX metro area needs is less competition among its news entities, that might be what’s coming this summer with the rumored demise of the small-but-scrappy Scottsdale Tribune, the Scottsdale edition of Mesa’s East Valley Tribune. According…

Goat of the series? Suns point guard Steve Nash.

Don’t cry, Stevie. You’ve at least got one good year left… Can there be any doubt two-time MVP Steve Nash is the goat of the series pitting the Suns against arch-rival San Antonio? I know, I know. David Stern’s an ass for penalizing Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for getting…

NBA Commish David Stern: Jackass du jour…

Yo, Dave, what’s that brown stuff on your lip? Ewww, never mind… Can anyone doubt after last night’s Suns-Spurs donnybrook dat we wuz robbed? Minus Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw, the mighty Suns dominated that game for 40-plus minutes, only running low on solar power towards the very end. As…

Mail Order Joe

As if this outraged owl needed more proof that Maricopa County’s gone mad, Sheriff “Nickel Bag” Joe Arpaio announced two months ago that he would implement a new policy on jail mail on May 1. That is, inmates ain’t allowed none. Or nearly none. Already, prisoners of Arpaio’s gulags can…