A thread of President Trump’s Tweetstorm following the announcement of Tembo’s death at 48: “I find it highly suspicious that the San Diego Zoo has chosen this moment to euthanize one of its (obviously) Republican …
January 10, 2020
Almost Factual News
Questions persist following San Diego Zoo’s announcement of beloved elephant’s death
Sea World ride “refuses to let go” twice in one month
The 2013 documentary Blackfish represented a sea change for SeaWorld, unleashing as it did a wave of protests and public outcry over the amusement park’s treatment of both killer whales and the park employees who …
January 10, 2020
Pardoned SEAL Eddie Gallagher endorses products, politicians
The New York Times may have published leaked statements from former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s accusers saying that he is evil and toxic, and that he wants to kill anybody he can, but you know …
January 10, 2020
Lorena Gonzalez hurts all freelancers
Hurts to laugh The article is hilarious (“Journalism: Going, Going, Gonzalez,” SD on the QT, November 1), but I have a somber, boring response to this sassy passage in particular, “But at a press conference …
January 1, 2020
San Diego Zoo Researchers declare success in effort to bring back Northern White Rhino — or something very much like it
A San Diego Zoo employee seeks to lure Future Shock, a northern white rhino grown from stem cells that were genetically tweaked into sperm and eggs by Zoo geneticists, away from the scene of what …
December 27, 2019
Spoiled Milk
Before Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official in California history, he was in the Navy. His time as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ended tragically when he and …
December 27, 2019
Children of the Immaculate Hate?
“The sad truth is that over 5000 women in San Diego County are forced into the commercial sex trade each year,” says Roxanne Redlight, Chairwoman for the County Vice Department. “It’s a dangerous, dehumanizing, despair-inducing, …
December 13, 2019
Bankrupt Bee Flees to Sea
Former Bumble Bee Tuna CEO Chris Lischewski raises a defiant fist as he slips out of San Diego harbor aboard the Chicken of the Sea in an attempt to elude authorities after being convicted for …
December 13, 2019
SDSU President pleads for dead student’s family to respect the University’s privacy (and policy) in this time of great distress (and potential liability).
On November 7, San Diego State freshman Dylan Hernandez was found in his bed without a pulse. He died soon after; the cause was blunt force trauma to the head. Investigators determined that he had …
November 29, 2019