Señor Trump shouldn’t drink Mezcal
Because the gusano
is an arduous laborer
with an appetite for politician’s brains
which explains
the wall his party
hallucinates around Mexico [Read more…]
Psychology and the Cubs Fan: the World Turned Upside Down?
By Nat Krieger
One hundred and eight years without a (I’m not superstitious, but one must respect local taboos) you know. This heritage has left Cubs fans the clearest eyed realists around. You never have to remind a Cubs fan that life is harsh and bloody, and beauty fleeting…“do tell, how about the collapse in ’69? Now that was a team, but Durocher played those guys into the ground…” And Cubs fans have little doubt what ball club life was playing for when Macbeth called it “a walking shadow, a poor player…” And what Cubs fan can forget the sound and fury over a muffed foul pop fly that signifies very little compared to the double play botched by a guy paid plenty to turn them….in short, there is no justice. [Read more…]
“I’m Voting Today” Shouldn’t Be a Provocative Statement
“What a difference this is. Just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election, and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for?”–Donald J Trump, October 27, 2016
Right after I hit “publish” on this column, I’m headed to the post office to mail my ballot.
It will be filled out all the way through to the best of my ability because down-ballot races are important. It will have two stamps because we have a lot to vote on. It will be signed because it won’t count otherwise. It will be filled in with a pen, rather than a marker, so the ink doesn’t bleed thru and invalidate a vote. And it will be mailed in time to be included in the first election night results.
There are people out there who don’t want me (and you) to cast a ballot… Nihilists who say ‘elections don’t matter’ from behind the screen in their self-imposed intellectual prisons. Scornful sore losers, sure their petulant protest will bring about the collapse of the system. And the alt-right types who would destroy representative Democracy in favor of strong man rule. [Read more…]
Kidnapping Crank Calls, Zika and Bad Report Card for Charter School
For several moments she only heard a rattling, then crying. Someone sounded like they were in distress. Then she heard, “Help me! Help me!”
Jane asked, “Are you ok? Where are you?” Suddenly, a man came on the line and said, “Jane, we have your family member. Do you want to help your family member?” [Read more…]
How Can We Help Our Children Rise Above The Times?
I’m thinking that our present times aren’t serving our children well. I mean, as I look at what’s going on in our society it seems as though we are all caught up in an atmosphere of lunacy wherein we have pretty much thrown our hands in the air like we just don’t care and kissed our way of life goodbye.
The saddest part of all this to me is our children are watching our madness, as only they know how: closely.
And they’ve got be as confused as they can be as they observe so many “grownups” going along with the program of a real live frightening bogeyman-like human being who crash landed in our midst and evolved, like a curse in an episode of the Twilight Zone, into a candidate for the highest office in our land. [Read more…]
San Diego’s Year of the Political Black Woman
By Gwen Pierce / The Chocolate Voice
Win or lose, without question the year 2016 will go down in history as the year of making Women’s history. With Hillary Clinton, becoming the first woman in U.S. history to become the presidential nominee of a major political party, many would agree that progress is on the rise.
In San Diego, six Black women are politically shaking things up too, as the year of the Political Black women emerge throughout San Diego County, as they run for State, School Board, College Boards and Lemon Grove Mayor in the County of San Diego!
Accomplished, powerful and smart, all six are representative of a phrase or hashtag that the world has come to know as #BlackGirlMagic. [Read more…]
La Frontera: A new exhibit while in line at the San Ysidro Port of Entry
By Stefan Falke
I have chosen an appropriate location for my newest photography exhibition titled LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US Mexican Border the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
I display eighteen large-scale images from my ongoing project. You can find the photographs along the left hand fence that leads to border control on the Mexican side in Tijuana.
In this photography project, I focus on artists who live and work along the U.S.-Mexico border, documenting their individual stories and their arts’ positive influence on their communities. To date I have photographed over 200 artists on both sides and along the entire length of the border, from Tijuana to Matamoros, from Brownsville to San Diego. [Read more…]
Fake Abortion Clinics Enabled by The San Diego Foundation “Pass Thru” Funding
Rewire.news (formerly RH Reality Check) has published a blockbuster expose about California Community Foundations’ role in enabling wealthy donors to fund so-called Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs).
A substantial body of evidence from federal and independent investigators, public health experts, and academics describes how crisis pregnancy centers peddle medically inaccurate information to coerce pregnant people into carrying to full term.
Rewire also discovered that between 2010 and 2014, the San Diego Foundation and California Community Foundation supported another prong of the anti-choice movement: propaganda. The San Diego Foundation gave $1.5 million in 2014 to Live Action, which has produced doctored videos seeking to smear abortion providers. [Read more…]
San Diego’s Parking Schizophrenia: More for Balboa Park, Less for Neighborhoods
Even as San Diego rolled out proposals reducing residential parking spaces, a City Council committee is set to approve up to $50 million in lease revenue bonds for construction of a 797 space parking garage in Balboa Park.
Just hours before the City Council was set to consider updated community plans for Golden Hill and North Park City, staff unveiled a plan aimed at encouraging commuters to curb their driving, including eliminating parking spaces, along with getting businesses to offer incentives for employees to walk, bike and take mass transit.
The driving disincentives were aimed at blunting opposition from environmental groups, who believe the community plans are at variance with the City’s plans to reduce its carbon footprint. [Read more…]
The North Dakota Access Pipeline: a Tale of Two Characters
By Chris Barroso/ SanDiego350.org
As a member of San Diego’s 350.org, I’d followed the story of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) for some time, telepathically urging the protesters on. And then one day, my friend Paul Sasso called me. “Hey, let’s go up and join the protesters. We’ll take my Tesla.” Yeah, I replied. I could do that. The next week wasn’t too busy, or the week after that. When are you thinking? I asked. “I’ll pick you up in a couple hours,” he said. Whoa, I thought for a moment; but I hurriedly packed, and soon we were off to the North Country.
On the way we talked about this 30 inch diameter pipeline, the rivers (Big Sioux, Missouri, and Mississippi) and the tribal lands it would cross. Eminent domain, one of us said, shaking our head. Did it translate in Native American languages to “broken treaty”? [Read more…]
Ballot on Steroids: the Burden of Direct Democracy
Norma Damashek / NumbersRunner
Still haven’t tackled those 31 propositions on your bloated November ballot? I counted 17 state, 2 county, and 12 city proposals on my sample ballot – enough to drive anyone nuts.
If you’ve been beating up on yourself for procrastinating – STOP! You are not the problem. The problem is the way we’re overusing and abusing the supercharged, direct-democracy ballot tools we call the initiative and the referendum.
Yes, let’s debate the value of representative democracy versus direct democracy. And weigh the pros and cons of ballot-box planning. Let’s juggle reform options for the signature-gathering process. And agonize over how to finance ballot initiatives and candidates. But let’s save it for another day.
Today, let’s get down to business, starting with some facts about ballot propositions: [Read more…]
The Color of Surveillance in San Diego
People of Color Have Privacy Rights Too!
By Christie Hill / ACLU of San Diego
Earlier this month, we learned that three San Diego neighborhoods are unknowing hosts of a new surveillance technology called ShotSpotter. It works by detecting the sound of gunshots and sending information to the police to allow them to respond to the area where gunshots were detected. We learned that the San Diego Police Department acquired ShotSpotter with no public input and only limited input from city council. There is no publicly-approved policy for how SDPD will deploy this technology that can potentially be used to surreptitiously listen-in on conversations within earshot of a ShotSpotter device. [Read more…]
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