surfinmike
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
Will and I got married for the extra $1452 Navy pay
Whogasa, I don't think it's fair to comment about the test scores not being high enough. Everyone knows how they try to eff you over regardless of your ASVAB scores. They tried to push me into an apprenticeship program until I was clued in by my cousin who was already in. Fortunately I hadn't shipped and was able to get into another program (computers) and now have a pretty decent career thanks to the Navy. However, they did try to screw me over as they try to do all the naïve young people trying to pull themselves out of (usually) poverty and the mid-west hell many of us grew up in. As with many people the military can bring out the best or worst in us. I had a decent 4 years on a carrier but you aren’t expected to have a life and young sailor. The thing I think about is that I would accept money to take the family guy’s watch or duty day. Was this any more wrong than what she did? The military frauds you and lies to you and then they expect you to not walk a fine line to help yourself? The lie to you to get you in and then give deserving people very crappy jobs and you only stay so you don’t end up in the brig. I don't think what she did was fraud. People get married for many reasons and money is just one in the long list of things. The military has Article 134 (if memory serves me right) that is the catch-all for anything they think you've done wrong but they can't find anything in the previous 133. It's basically a way to get you on charges but not knowing what to charge you with. That's high standards?— May 8, 2008 9:05 a.m.
Speaking of Drugs
oops. I meant Reagan. Can't type today.— April 17, 2008 11:16 a.m.
Speaking of Drugs
Maybe the judge seems to have forgotten that in June of 1987 Regan said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" That was quite a bit longer than "Six months" before the wall fell in August of 1989. There was talk for a long time before the Wall came down. I agree with you though. No politician will take the steps towards pot legalization becuase they are too afraid of losing their careers. Wall = bad idea. Career politicians = bad idea.— April 17, 2008 11:14 a.m.
Will SDPD target the Rocket Pop Street Artist?
Too bad you didn't tour Cardiff during this article. You would have seen another horrendous piece of ummm....art(?) in the form of an effeminate bronze surfer statue that has plenty of the "soft quality and angles" to the wrist. This "iconic" statue is an iconic slap in the face to artists and surfers alike but an even bigger iconic eye-sore. "Bronzed surfer - have you ever seen a bronzed surfer?" Wish I hadn't actually.— March 25, 2008 3:35 p.m.
Ollie's big bike ride – from North Park to Torrey Pines and back
You should have gone to have a Jeff Burger. I looked it up and this is the address. 2152 Avenida De La Playa. Good place to go after a starving ride or 3 hours of surfing La Jolla Shores or Blacks. Lots of carbs there I am sure.— February 8, 2008 1:24 p.m.