by David Safier (TASL) If you don’t know about the threat of buffelgrass to Tucson’s desert ecosystem, you need to educate yourself. Jim Kiser has an excellent op ed in today’s Star, a group of scientists and politicians put together an eye-opening 10 minute video and the Bufflegrass Information Center website is filled with information. … Read more
by David Safier In just one year, TUSD lost items that cost $1.6M. That’s the headline of a front page story in The Star by Rhonda Bodfield and Enrich Volante. I can guarantee this is the first time the story has appeared in a Tucson newspaper. But if you read my May 16 post, Nearly … Read more
by David Safier If you, like me, are a New Yorker subscriber who is furious about their Obamas-as-Muslim-terrorists satirical cover misfire, you might want to do something about it. Here’s what I’m doing. I’m sending the cover to the New Yorker’s Letters to the Editor section. I figure this is enough of a message to … Read more
by David Safier If you haven’t seen the New Yorker cover with Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as Muslims and terrorists, you’ll have to look elsewhere. I won’t give that cover another viewing here. I think the cover is despicable and wrongheaded. We don’t need yet another version of the Obama-as-Muslim/terrorist myth played out on … Read more
by David Safier Some people wonder how McCain can still be seen as a straight talking maverick when he’s held so many different positions on so many issues. John show us how it’s done. Mah friends, this here’s what I call mah Maverick Fence. Ah kin do mah straight talkin’ from both sides of this … Read more