When San Diego Starbucks barista Lenin Gutierrez rudely refused to serve a woman because she was not wearing a protective mask, she took to Facebook to complain, noting, “Next time I will wait for cops …
July 10, 2020
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Customer complaint chases bullying Starbucks barista from corona-crazed coffee collective
There are four differences between the two pictures of protests below. Can you spot them? Check the answers to see how you did!
Top picture has unvandalized network logo and intact windows. 2. Top photo features network founder respectfully dialoguing with protesters. 3. Network in top photo is upfront about its partisan political allegiance. 4. Network in top …
June 26, 2020
University of California endorses diversity measure
The University of California’s Board of Regents voted last week to address “original sin of this country” by seeking to repeal Prop 209, which voters approved in 1996 to ban “preferential treatment” for minority groups. …
June 26, 2020
Band goes from Village People to Boat People after Pride shaming
“It started with the Cop, of course,” says the Village People’s Biker. “Didn’t matter that he’s black. San Diego Pride said that law enforcement could no longer have a contingent at the Pride Parade, because …
June 26, 2020
Statues stored for sake of safety (and sanity)
“When the City of Chula Vista opted to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from its home in Discovery Park and place it in storage ahead of a planned protest, it got me thinking,” says …
June 26, 2020
Tagger plasters extreme views all over seemingly reasonable building in Allied Gardens
“I was shocked,” said local American Sam Eagle. “This is America. I know we have freedom of speech, but that does not give anyone the right to undermine an extremely profitable — and at the …
May 29, 2020
Casinos defend decision to re-open despite governor’s concerns
Ad depicting line of eager patrons outside of Viejas on re-opening day. “Life is like a casino,” observes Viejas spokesman Ron Ponyup. “Most people are suckers, happy to be governed by chance. A few pay …
May 29, 2020
San Diego Schools welcome end of so-called “distance learning”
“School is about so much more than data transfer from teacher to student,” says Dahmer High School English teacher Pamela Ratched. “It’s about the crucial socialization that takes part in the classroom, the lunchroom, and …
May 29, 2020
Newly reopened restaurants prepare to enforce social distancing with surplus sex dolls.
Matt McMullen had a problem. The founder of San Marcos-based luxury sex doll company RealDoll had, as he puts it, “a factory full of way too many bodies in close proximity. I mean, literally stacked …
May 29, 2020
Padres exit April without a loss for the first time in forever
It must be the new uniforms!
May 15, 2020
Marines resume training despite recent coronavirus outbreak
Fight the invisible enemy! Actual Marine recruitment poster. (Well, mostly.)
May 15, 2020