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Transactional ethics
Every word in this Reader story about UCSD's new "Institute for Practical Ethics" is loaded and tells us about the state of affairs at San Diego's top-tier academic research center, as well as many others just like it across the country. It will be a tall order to "close the gap between the pace of innovation" and the greed of scientists who have been profiting personally from their "university's tax-funded scientific breakthroughs." And no word whether the Institute's philosopher and sociologist chairmen will wield actual veto power over anything or if there will be an additional stipend for their deliberations.— October 12, 2017 5:01 p.m.
Bernie Sanders pays National City campaign bill
Maybe there's some distinction here between gratis Secret Service protection for presidential candidates and any additional costs accruing to local police agencies when a popular candidate such as Bernie comes to town. I agree with Cassander that there's something fishy about National City going after Sanders in this way, but Bernie has paid his bill in full, so end of story. It is hard to marginalize a person like Bernie Sanders who has stamina, excellent ideas and a long record for personal integrity.— October 9, 2017 3:02 p.m.
Nathan tales
Whoever is penning "I Heart Nathan" can really write. Then again, he/she has only Truth, the whole truth, to work with. This race will be a test of how gullible San Diego voters are, even if most of them are registered Democrats.— September 28, 2017 11:45 p.m.
Don't drink the 7up in Mexico
"Disregarding the state's warning, I bought the bottle and had a small glass with my late dinner....The following day...I poured another glass of the 7up...I drank more than half the glass and threw the rest away." Are you crazy??? Are you trying to eliminate the Reader's sole Latino entry in alternative weeklies' diversity sweepstakes? Or are you just testing the word of the Attorney General of the State of Baja California? Call me old-fashioned, but I think you could write about meth-laced 7up being banned in Baja without describing your own dangerous experiment ingesting it.— September 28, 2017 7:29 p.m.
Year by the Sea seems a lot longer
Whlle It's never too late to reclaim your life, there is unfortunately no refund on the two hours lost watching Year by the Sea. You are a stich. Scott. Last Supper for the college-bound? Callous hubby reassigned to WICHita? I think you have been too kind.— September 28, 2017 6:57 p.m.
Viral funding
I feel confident betting that Mayor Sunny's One San Diego charity slush fund will not go to remedy the Hepatitis A epidemic born of 9,000 homeless residents on San Diego streets. Actually, we may see a dramatic drop-off in contributions from the Mayor's business friends, given the city's unfortunate new notoriety. On the bright side, I personally hope this outbreak of preventable disease is the death knell for San Diego's "America's Finest City" moniker, adopted long ago in response to a different scandal overseen by a different GOP mayor.— September 27, 2017 5:14 p.m.
Faulconer's new hepatitis spinmeister
Reader writers might count their blessings when it comes to being left out of flack Rachel Laing's twitter loop. Pretty soon Voice of San Diego's Lisa Halverstad will be joining you. Halverstad recently wrote a damning blow-by-blow chronology of months-long buck-passing between Mayor Faulconer's office, the County Supervisors (one notable end-run from Ron Roberts' chief of staff Sal Giametta, ever the polite procrastinator) and County Health Department officers. Lots of palaver, lots of looking for outside funding sources before lifting a finger, lots of delay -- all leading to the full-blown epidemic now in progress and getting national attention for "America's Finest City." I heard Mayor Used-to-Be Sunny on KPBS the other day and he was hard-pressed to find those positive turns of phrase he's famous for. He was irritable and sounded like a man whose political career was cratering. When 9,000 people live on the streets year after year, there will be consequences. How is it possible these politicians thought it just could be ignored?— September 26, 2017 5:35 p.m.
Peter Navarro pushed aside at White House, says Politico
Speaking of sexual organs, I heard on NPR today that when "Rocket man" is translated into Korean, it sounds like a macho compliment, which "Peter" definitely is not.— September 21, 2017 7:51 p.m.
La Jolla lifeguard tower rife with cost overruns
If you can make a lifeguard station twice as expensive, at least twice as big as its predecessor and take more than double-time to build than originally planned, why not blame it on the seals? I also heard there were rats inside the structure and that brand-new plumbing backed up, so obviously that baby sea gull was at fault. The truth is that both this new lifeguard tower at Casa Cove and the newish one at La Jolla Shores (which had to be entirely rebuilt because of a design flaw in the lookout tower window) cost a fortune and intrude on the landscape in ways their modest antecedents never did. But then again, La Jolla's lifeguard monuments essentially mimic grandiose new residential housing in the area that is replacing older, simpler, smaller structures.— September 21, 2017 7:26 p.m.
Plastic-bag ban led to hep A health crisis?
Just incredible -- the story and the comments. Mayor Faulconer, San Diego City Council and the five County Supervisors are responsible for public health and safety. Let's see their unanimous resolve to do what they are paid to do: protect public health and safety in the face of a serious outbreak of Hepatitis A in the region. And voters, don't forget who these elected representatives are the next time they run for election. Their laissez-faire-look-the-other-way record on this scandal has earned them a one-way ticket out of office.— September 21, 2017 6:48 p.m.