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U-T Axes 34 to 40
I would recommend the Party Crasher feature in the Reader as a fun parody/continuation of the social column. I wouldn't stop the roasting on Mr. Stiff's account. At any age, alive or dead, we prefer ridicule to neglect. I only read him when the doctor was very busy, but he seemed harmless and good natured. If the rest of the UT was harmless, I would still read.— June 21, 2010 10:28 a.m.
U-T Axes 34 to 40
I assumed that those featured in the society column purchased five figures in advertising or more, and were vain enough to think the coverage was flattering. Perhaps the UT should send an artist with pen and paper. Women artists sketch with clothes on are perhaps not beautiful models, but artists know how to find beauty in the generous. High school students now pay ten dollars an issue for collections of drawings, thousands flock to the Comic-Con. The UT and the Reader should consider more and better drawing to attract younger readers, give style to advertising, and flatter the advertiser with something they can save and hang on the wall.— June 21, 2010 2:36 a.m.
U-T Axes 34 to 40
To 62 Mr. Bauder, With leadership and fatherhood, some tasks can't be delegated without confusion. The leader stands up and tells the crowd what to do, and even if shrinking violets had rank on the pansy, Rob Kittle was a real leader in this town. Because he is a father, I intend to stop skirting the fun non issue of his persona, and leave it alone entirely, after this one time. I am quitting smoking also. Lets hear it for leaders, and fathers, who tell us what we don't want to hear. Happy Father's Day.— June 20, 2010 1:24 p.m.
San Diego Gay and Lesbian News, against Gay and Lesbian Times
The Republican Party SHOULD advertise it's policy to the Gay Community, a gay blog is perfect for this, since the closeted gay tends Republican. Though no figures are possible to prove this, the contrast between Larry Craig and Barney Frank shows the wide range of political thought possible in those with roughly similar sexual practice. My statement, that a gay blog was a strange place for Proposition D to advertise, is therefore flat wrong. Gays are Republican and Republicans are gay, on this I agree with Sealp and Pathetic. That a blog or any publication should attack it's competition's circulation figures is not surprising. That a DA, under personal attack from a publication, should send goons to go through files, claiming that advertisers, who have not complained, have been defrauded, shocks the conscience of any free person. Make no mistake, San Diego Gay and Lesbian Times is under attack because it is a powerful voice that some want to silence and replace, not because of weak circulation figures. If Bonnie Dumanis thought it would die soon, she wouldn't try to kill it. I intend to overcome my squeamishness and pick up a copy. It's not wrong for Democrats to advertise in an openly Gay publication, now is the time.— June 19, 2010 4:47 p.m.
U-T Axes 34 to 40
UT quality can't deteriorate, boring dogma can't be ruined, even by typos, which are often the funniest copy in the whole paper. The David Copley-Burl Stiff connection is news to me. I thought Burl Stiff was amazingly untalented for a gay writer, I guess Copley liked him not for his prose, but just because he was Stiff. Grasca's link suggests he has some talent as a poet, if you like pink. Now all this makes me wonder again about Rob Kittle. That bow tie, that whine! I now know why he seemed normal to David Copley, even as he was fingernails on the blackboard to many of us.— June 19, 2010 2:32 p.m.
San Diego Gay and Lesbian News, against Gay and Lesbian Times
The Hale-DeMaio-Prop D connection seems most interesting. A Gay blog seems a weird place to advertise for votes on such an issue, and a domestic partner is a totally normal bagman for an extortion-bribery scheme. Smell alone proves nothing of course.— June 17, 2010 6:21 p.m.
City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
To 59 The 60's Aztec offense was certainly not plain and simple, but a then radical display of our current passing style. The team had speed and quickness, but lacked size. Division II Schools then had access to junior college players, and those who had served in the military. These 'loopholes' made possible Div II powerhouses like Grambling and SDSC. The reason we must speculate on their performance is because the top schools were afraid of them. Now that they are pushovers, UCLA will play them. The Aztecs offered big money from those filled stands, with no takers, when they were dangerous. The NCAA rigs every football season, and championships are decided by fat old men. The great coaches and last chance players of those Aztec teams can hold their head high, their style of football won the day, and they were greater than the shabby trophy they were trying to win— June 15, 2010 11:54 a.m.
City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
These crowds just give me more ideas. First an open carry gun show. then target practice with the new weaponry, the audience firing at prancing whiners caught reading Noam Chomsky. then a street fight between Lakeside and Encanto. Finally the audience, fueled by vendors hawking Jager and Jack. could engage in a general shoot out. The whole spectacle could be streamed to the world, sponsored by liquor and gun manufacturers. The commentators naturally would keep track of caliber and make, keeping statistics of factors like stopping power. That;s entertainment!— June 14, 2010 11:21 p.m.
City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
Full implementation of my modest proposal to fill our Stadium would include felons fighting with sharp objects for the entertainment of the masses, the burning of Liberals would be mere warm up to this featured attraction, allowing for commercial breaks. Sissies might complain, but two facts are certain, our felons are ready to fight, and the Stadium would be full.— June 14, 2010 4:15 p.m.
City Wants Assessment of Qualcomm Stadium
To 28 In DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Gibbon demonstrates with numbers that Christians vs Lions was a small sideshow in the general slaughter, pumped up by later Christian writers to justify their heretic burning. Pagans were largely tolerant. More Muslims have been killed in Iraq in our latest Christian war than all the Roman persecutions put together. A look at the latest movies reveals that even without a large screen, such entertainments would sell out profitably. With a Republican Supreme Court, and a few changes in Sacramento, we could make lots of money from our 3000 Death Row inmates. It was not the Founders original intent to ban public executions. Properly maintained our multi use Stadium could stand when the NFL is replaced by more exciting spectacles.— June 13, 2010 4:14 p.m.