PhotosSoon-Shiong's Los Angeles-Sacramento-Fresno-San Diego Bee?
More consolidations and layoffs loom for California papers
Matt Potter 1:30 p.m., Sept. 18
Walter Mencken
Articles by Walter Mencken
Bishop Bob’s Backyard Bonfire
Putatively progressive prelate McElroy goes old school; exhumes body of whistleblower Richard Sipe and has it burned
Bishop Bob’s Backyard Bonfire
The Art of the Steal
Trump chumps Hunter after embattled Congressman attempts comparison between them
The Art of the Steal
Gabby DiMarco elected to Beer Ball Hall of Fame on First Ballot
Trevor who?
NO, NOT REALLY - Last January, the Hoff finally made the HoF: ace Padres reliever Trevor Hoffman, whose 601 saves are second only to Mariano Rivera, appeared on 79.9 percent of the ballots cast by ...
San Diego State debuts new Spirit Leader
From Monty Montezuma to Alejandro Aztec
San Diego State University President Randy Rush today addressed the ongoing controversy surrounding the former mascot for the school’s athletic competitions. While the great marority of students, faculty, and alumnae favored maintaining a human Azetc ...
Garbage Fire wins silver
San Diego's surprise showing at 2018 Literalympics
NO, NOT REALLY - From the judges’ comments: “San Diego is not a city known for grand idiomatic gestures, so it was a welcome surprise to see it stage an actual garbage fire in a ...
Siren song
Sunset Cliffs mermaid decoy proves effective lure for Lovecraftian Elder God
NO, NOT REALLY — “Well, now we know why someone placed a fake mermaid on the rocks off Sunset Cliffs,” says San Diego Fish & Game’s head of code enforcement Howard Phillips. “She proved to ...
Coast Guard seizes over 5000 pounds of cocaine
Agency’s near-record haul represents a full 0.05% of annual import into US
JUST ADORABLE, REALLY — Above, Coast Guard agents in San Diego proudly display palettes of cocaine seized from a boat in international waters off the Central American coast last week. In a related image, right, ...
"Porn has already shown them everything!"
Protestors speak out against San Diego Schools' “woefully inadequate” sexual education program
NO, NOT REALLY — “Thanks to PornHub.com, 12-year-old kids already know about fisting, felching, scat play, trannys, grannys, Georgy Porgy Orgies, and all the rest of it,” laments concerned mother Chastity Rose (above right) as ...
San Diego, America's Finest Drone Zone
Well, one of ten selected by the FAA, anyway
NO, NOT REALLY: Your daughter, shielding her face from a peeping drone (shadow in upper left corner). “Soon, this sort of thing will be a thing of the past,” says Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. “The ...
