WillA
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Customs stopped me in San Ysidro as a sex offender
The S#x Offender Registries (SORs) are pure through and through stupidity. Idiotic social policy. Having said that, I completely understand why a person might think they would be a good thing. If you know that a neighbor, co-worker, or whomever has done something bad in the past, then you can be extra wary of the person. Seems reasonable. But one huge problem with that is that we seem to only think that would be useful for s*x crimes. I'm sorry, but if we have that for s#x crimes, then there are zero legitimate excuses to not have it for every other crime. I should be able to pull up a dossier on any of my neighbors. The other HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE problem with the SORs is that people living in the U.S. cannot use them responsibly. If the SORs were only used so that people would be "informed", then they likely wouldn't be such a bad thing. But obviously they are misused to the point that they are immoral and no American could support it. And the SORs aren't needed at all either. A person who attempts to molest your child or whatever is not going to be Registered. If you do what you actually have to do to protect your children or yourself, you have zero need for any very, very, very incomplete list from big government of people who might have done something bad in the past. All that said, the damage that is being caused by the SORs every day can't be overestimated. Families that are listed on the SORs do not have any obligations at all to be good citizens. And that is just the start of it. People who support the SORs like to dream that doesn't matter, but of course it does. They also don't care anything about the children who are affected. Just more U.S. stupidity. Like the segregated water fountains of not so long ago and a hundred+ other examples prior to that.— January 27, 2017 3:16 p.m.
Customs stopped me in San Ysidro as a sex offender
I wouldn't say that I was angered by this story. In fact, I would so love to see this happen to millions of people. What I have been angered by is that a person can commit a relatively minor crime and then be subject to ex-post facto harassment for decades. And for many people for the rest of their lives. The harassment changes and increases all the time. It varies all over America. And it is certainly not based on facts. And of course we have to note that people think this kind of harassment is fine for people who have done such things as look at bad pictures in the privacy of their own homes and done nothing else. They think those people are "dangerous" and that career criminals who commit crimes EVERY SINGLE YEAR are not dangerous even if they broke into their neighbor's home a year ago and beat them nearly to death. Or perhaps they just drove by a school and tried to shoot up a bunch of people. Not dangerous, clearly. The fact is that there are exactly zero informed Americans who support the S*x Offender Registries (SORs) because it is beyond clear that they are not REALLY for "public safety", "protecting children", or any of those other lies. Experts have never supported any of it. Politicians do. Uninformed people do. People who are getting something from it do. F all people who support the SORs. Any family that is listed on an SOR should neutralize it. That is trivial. Beyond that they should do everything and anything that is legal every single day to retaliate for the mere existence of the SORs. They should identify people who support the SORs and treat them as the terrorists that they are.— January 27, 2017 3:07 p.m.
Customs stopped me in San Ysidro as a sex offender
Apologies for posting this twice but it appears if it is only posted via the Facebook plugin then the comment does not appear when the page is accessed via some methods. Mr. Miller: If you support the Nanny Big Government (NBG) S#x Offender Registries (SORs) then I am so very happy that this happened to you. I wish a lot worse would have. All people who support the SORs deserve a lot of punishment. If you do not support the SORs then I am truly sorry that it happened to you. A "s#x offender" is a person who is committing s#x crimes. At this exact moment, in the U.S. there are likely less than 500 of those people who are actually known. Using the term "s#x offender" to refer to people who are listed on the SORs is inaccurate. It is also lazy, un-American, and hateful. They could be referred to as "Registered Citizens (RCs)". I also find it shocking that Homeland Security (HS) is not more capable of identifying RCs. Seriously, what is their budget? It is not a large mandate of theirs that they harass RCs? How many hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars does HS waste every single year with all their constant nonsense? The kind of technology that they would need is completely trivial and has been for years and years. And really, what good is this HS harassment anyway? What the heck do they dream they are accomplishing? I know NBG bureaucracies are obligated to be dumb, but really! Do they ask the people, "Did you commit any s#x crimes while traveling? We don't care about ANY other crimes, no matter how heinous ... unless it involved s#x. We don't care if you shot 10 children in the face. As long as you didn't touch their rear ends." I know, I know, HS and other NBG bureaucracies like to brag how they are harassing RCs and "monitoring" them. So funny. I'm sure HS thinks they are doing a lot when they search through each RCs' personal belongings. They dream that they are going to find child porn all over the place! Do they really think that anyone who is going to go to the trouble of committing a s#x crime abroad is going to bring their child porn to HS? The whole concept is just stupefying to anyone with a brain. But that is the status quo for the SORs and the "s#x offender" witch hunt. And in case you didn't know, the criminal U.S. government is trying to stop all international travel by RCs. They have stopped most of it. They are still working on it. And there aren't any Americans who support that. Not a single one. There aren't any Americans who support the SORs either. It has been proven beyond debate that the SORs are not really for "public safety", "protecting children", or any of those other lies. Anyone who support the SORs is an immoral, un-American, harassing terrorist. Someone who cannot mind their own business or leave other people alone. Those people must be treated exactly as the terrorists that they are. By all good Americans. We need not have concern for them.— January 26, 2017 8:14 a.m.