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Pepper-spray spree costs SDPD
I would say it's abundantly clear that policing in this country needs review and reform. The wave of questionable -- unjustified? -- shootings of unarmed persons is not news: it's just getting documented, often by cell phones in the hands of citizen bystanders. An unintended positive consequence of cell phone proliferation. Over-reaction by police officers is also unacceptably commonplace, as in this instance. Since we are all armed to the teeth, innocent unsuspecting cops face retaliatory gun violence, as in the NYC instance. We need to embrace a return to community policing, establish civilian review boards of police actions and require that whatever information cop-cams reveal must be divulged publicly rather than closely held in police department secrecy.— April 20, 2015 7:15 p.m.
Charger Girls finally have something to celebrate
Right, dwbat, like actors in community theater productions, looking for a leg up, so to speak, and a better-paid entertainment position. Former Stanford cheerleader now-Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez has improved her station and so she's looking out for the sisterhood. It's really kind of beautiful.— April 18, 2015 6:51 p.m.
The nefarious nut
Sorry, forget about Jim, the movie was "Killer Joe" about a rogue cop filmed in post-Katrina New Orleans and another great one was "The Paper Boy," totally noir and set in swampy red-neck Florida.— April 18, 2015 4:57 p.m.
The nefarious nut
Mother of God, this column takes the cake.— April 18, 2015 12:10 p.m.
The nefarious nut
Except for worrying about refined sugar, you now seem even nicer: why not post your grandma's almond shortbread recipe?— April 18, 2015 12:03 p.m.
The nefarious nut
You are mostly right -- and especially nice to have bought part of your granddad's TX homestead -- but putting Matthew McConaughey on your list of Terrible Things About Texas was deeply wrong. In spite of those weird car commercials, McConaughey is without a doubt the sexiest and best actor in Hollywood today, bar none. "Mud" was a dud, but "The Lincoln Lawyer," 'Killer Jim," the AIDs movie and that "True Detective" series with Woody Harrelson were terrific. Also, from what I hear, Austin has become Brooklyn Southwest, and as a nation, we could easily live without either of those phony hipster scenes.— April 18, 2015 11:55 a.m.
Could Feds be prowling mayor's Qualcomm food and booze deal?
What? A playing field tipped in favor of Delaware North whose lobbyist is Mayor Sunny's Handsome Main Man? DN got to feed the Stadium Task Force and competitor Centerplate was explicitly prohibited from offering snacks to the poohbahs? Even though there may be no reason for food service of any kind from any vendor at Qualcomm Stadium next year? What will be next in the long list of evil-doing in Metropolis?— April 17, 2015 4:43 p.m.
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Even in adulthood, I cannot read "The Jungle Book" without weeping when Mowgli must leave his Wolf Family to return to the company of humans. It is an excruciating parting, a template for all terrible leave-takings. Kipling's stories are the most beautiful, scary, exciting, informative and affecting in all children's lit. I never knew he wrote this book while living in the United States or that he lost two of his own children. I have a small, now-crumbling, leather-bound volume of "The Jungle Book" that my late father bought in Paris, France, when he was a doughboy in World War I.— April 17, 2015 4:08 p.m.
Overweight San Salvador launch sunk
We have Charger Girls for "navel" operations, but at the San Salvador berth, surely we're talking about naval operations. Also, are we "raising" street and light poles or razing them so the ship may pass on the street without mishaps before being launched?— April 17, 2015 3:44 p.m.
The nefarious nut
All this anti-almond talk should not obscure the fact that almonds are good for us and that California almond orchards in bloom in the spring are exquisitely beautiful. The clever guy who dreamed up the one almond/one gallon of water equation probably worked at Porter Novelli, the outfit that produced our ever-sunny Mayor Faulconer.— April 15, 2015 5:51 p.m.