More on The Arizona Guardian
by David Safier In my last post, I noted the existence of the new, all-online Arizona Guardian. NPR station KJZZ interviewed Dennis Welch, whose Guardian article I quoted in the post. The four reporters on the Guardian staff were all recently let go from the East Valley Tribune due to budget cuts. They decided to … Read more
Save the prisons! Save the prisons!
by David Safier A classic passage from Dennis Welch's article at the online Arizona Guardian: It appears that Pearce, a former Maricopa County sheriff's deputy, and Kavanagh, a former police officer with the Port Authority in New York City, want to spare state prisons from taking a major hit. The proposal includes about $22 million … Read more
“An abomination, pure and simple”
by David Safier When the Star writes an editorial using the line, "an abomination, pure and simple" and it's not talking about murder or some other unspeakable act, you know something must be truly awful. Here's the entire sentence from this morning's editorial: The budget-balancing proposal floated by the state Legislature's Republican leaders on Thursday … Read more
Eight years of hell in eight minutes
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: George W. Bush is King Midas in Reverse: everything he has touched has turned to crap. Keith Olbermann documents the disaster that this miserable failure has been for our country.
The End of an Error
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: George W. Bush gave his Farewell Address to the nation last night. He oddly invited his unindicted co-conspirators as his guests (current and former administration officials) so that he had a friendly audience before whom to deliver his speech. There is only one thing I wanted to hear from this supremely arrogant … Read more
Bush’s last press conference
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Years from now, college psychology classes will be using the video of George W. Bush's last press conference as a teaching aid. "How many psychological disorders and neuroses can you identify in this man?" "W" really outdid himself. Even after eight years of watching this insane clown perform on stage I was … Read more
