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Did Chris Kyle deck Jesse Ventura at McP's in Coronado?
Manson should stick to reviewing cheap eats. Why do we have to read about Seal grudges over questions raised in a macho shoving match in a Coronado bar? Chris Kyle was a rural Texas kid who knew his way around guns, signed up in the military after 9/11 for four tours in Iraq, became a killer and then got killed by a fellow vet at a target-shooting range. Wrestler/Governor Jesse Ventura got his "Seal honor" dinged in Kyle's book and went to court to settle his hash. Ventura's dead now too, but just politically. It interests me that no movie reviewer has pointed out that Clint Eastwood's 2014 glorification of Chris Kyle in "American Sniper" is almost a carbon copy of the award-winning 1942 film "Sergeant York" with Gary Cooper (Netflix.) Cooper plays a dirt-poor backwoods boy from the South who knows how to shoot a rifle, enlists in World War I, kills beaucoup Germans fighting in France, gets a celebrity's ticker-tape parade in NYC and receives the nation's gratitude in the form of a free house with surrounding acreage back home. These violent "heroic" archetypes recur because they serve a purpose: keep the cannon fodder coming -- in World War II and again now when the country has to maintain an all-volunteer military.— January 20, 2015 9:21 p.m.
They haul meat
Who IS writing this story? And who ARE these "scientists" who lure Golden Eagles with meat, capture them and swab for DNA, then GPS and release them to contribute to "a broad western database?" The language sounds scientific, but it is no justification for what's actually occurring. Where do these guys work and under whose auspices do they dare interject themselves into the natural order with their human-designed fake food supply? Who gives permission for this hubris-laden intervention with San Diego County's remarkably still-extant wildlife? There is no justification for such human interference with rare wild creatures. These guys are upsetting the balance of Nature by drawing eagles as well as other animals to their meat caches, and manhandling the wild birds in the process. It's outrageous -- they do it because they can -- and it's wrong. Their "study" should be shut down.— January 17, 2015 2:33 p.m.
La Jolla High fights brain pain
Mean, but close enough.— January 16, 2015 5:33 p.m.
Another shake-up hits U-T San Diego
VOSD claims Light will be handling business side advertising as well as editorial; that he's taking on the chores of a departing Chief Operating Officer in addition to being Editor.— January 13, 2015 7:28 p.m.
Another shake-up hits U-T San Diego
A little help over here: -- doesn't "editor of the newsroom" mean Managing Editor? So being Editor and Managing Editor is like double-work, though the duties seem compatible enough. I'm not sure what an Editor needs to do when you have a Publisher who's so, well, active.— January 13, 2015 2:15 p.m.
The Koala and Charlie Hebdo
"Overweening need to self-censor and avoid hurting anyone's feelings...slippery slope to sheep-dom...a major part of human progress is a willingness to challenge long-established and long-unquestioned doctrines." Where's the "human progress" in what happened in Paris last week? "Rights" became the posthumous rallying cry for Charlie's gross cartoons demeaning the prophet Mohammed and the Muslim religion practiced by the largest single minority group in France. Retribution was expected and it materialized -- in many dreadful deaths of Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. And there may be more to come, as the cycle of fear, action and reaction plays out.— January 12, 2015 10:43 p.m.
Prison magnate among mayoral heavy-hitters
A rogues' gallery. I can't think of an offensive category of contributor that is left uncovered here. With such support it's no wonder Faulconer makes theoretical lists of GOP candidates for Barbara Boxer's soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat.— January 12, 2015 4:19 p.m.
The Koala and Charlie Hebdo
Amen to Alex: just because you have the double-edged right to ridicule something doesn't mean you should. Nor should we negatively judge the religion of Islam. Whatever happened to honoring tolerance? Just as the recent provocative, crude and stupid movie about assassinating Korean leader Kim Jung Un became an unlikely symbol for free-speech rights, the provocative, crude and offensive cartoons of Charlie Hebdo also have entered the pantheon. Ironic and pathetic. Where is respect for another group's religious beliefs? Personally, I thought those cartoons looked like gratuitous attacks on the religious beliefs of a French minority group -- not political commentary. That they were received as incendiary literally got Charlie Hebdo offices firebombed and its staff massacred. Tragic.— January 10, 2015 2:21 p.m.
Kennedy assassin to remain in San Diego
What's "extra-special" about the punishment being meted out to Sirhan Sirhan? Robert Kennedy WAS "special" and not some run-of-the-mill "politician." He was a candidate for President of the United States, a former U.S. Attorney General and the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Robert Kennedy's June 1968 murder by Sirhan Sirhan came only two months after the April assassination of civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Trust me, you had to be there: it was an incredible shock -- yet another apparently politically-motivated murder of an iconic liberal figure over a short period of time. Maybe the law regards Sirhan's crime as unusually heinous because of Kennedy's official status and so he remains incarcerated. Contrary to its billing, the '60's sucked.— January 9, 2015 12:50 p.m.
Kennedy assassin to remain in San Diego
I imagine any undiscovered co-conspirators have covered their tracks as well as their tracts and I wonder who are the lawyers filing on behalf of Sirhan Sirhan, who pays them for their services and how much money do they make?— January 8, 2015 5:48 p.m.