When friends ask Zach Johnson’s daughters what their daddy does, it can be hard. How do you tell someone your daddy races pigs? But he must be doing something right. He has four teams of …
July 7, 2021
News & Stories
Racing Swifty’s Swine with Kevin Bacon, Brad Pig, and Kim Kardashing-ham
The importance of Jason Hughes
Tale of two mayors In the tainted annals of the Jason Hughes city hall real estate scandal, before Kevin Faulconer there was Bob Filner. Hughes, a wealthy Rancho Santa Fe resident, spread his campaign cash …
July 7, 2021
Oceanside car guy finds the Holy Grail – and proves it
These days, many family garages function as little more than halfway houses for discards on their way to the Goodwill. Or maybe home-adjacent storage facilities: a place for keeping holiday decorations between holidays, camping equipment, …
July 7, 2021
More on Coronado tortillas, more on San Diego stupid
Coronado capering Kudos for SD on the QT for exposing the Terrible Tortilla Toss as another in a long line of imagined liberal racism and the Coronado school board as kowtowing morons (“Coronado School Board …
July 7, 2021
Tortillagate debate at Coronado High School
“Storm in a teacup!” says my friend Eric. It’s a quiet Saturday evening. Noisiest things around are the crows. We’re talking — of course — about the flying tortilla incident a couple of weeks ago. …
July 7, 2021
Spotting realism failures in Harry Potter
Dear Hipster: One thing that has always bothered me is, why do fictional hipsters always seem to have it so easy? You see some hipsters on TV and movies, and they somehow get away with …
July 7, 2021