“When I first suggested that China’s decision to share its pandas with the San Diego Zoo might be a fur-op, everybody said I was crazy,” says local conspiracy theorist Saul Openmind. “That was what, 27 …
August 13, 2021
Almost Factual News
Once-dismissed “Lin-Leak Theory” gains traction following covid outbreak among Zoo’s big cats
Following Serra High controversy, other San Diego High Schools forced to reckon with racist namesakes
Statement from San Diego Unified’s Department of Doing Better: “Junipero Serra was an easy one: no religious figure has any business having their name on a public school, including the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. …
July 30, 2021
UCSD watermelon-smashing tradition ended after more than 50 years following incident
The UCSD Watermelon Drop, in which the melon is dropped seven stories from Urey Hall in an effort to create the largest possible splat, is the school’s oldest tradition. But not every tradition is worth …
July 30, 2021
Projectile product placement: problematic or propitious?
When life gives you tortillas...
July 2, 2021
Madman Mencken’s Sports Etiquette Corner
It’s okay to hate someone for rooting for the other team. It’s just not okay to hate them for being a POC.
July 2, 2021
Coronado School Board comfortable with decision to fire head coach following tortilla-tossing incident
On Saturday, June 19th, Coronado High’s boys basketball team defeated Escondido’s Orange Glen 60-57 in overtime. After the game, at least one spectator began to toss tortillas onto the court. A postgame altercation had already …
July 2, 2021
Perps and victims unite in call to remove law enforcement from campus
Last week, both students and faculty members from UCSD gathered with local social justice organizations to advocate for the removal of the UCPD, the branch of the police department that patrols the the university’s campus. …
June 18, 2021
City expands outreach to vaccine-hesitant communities
“When we first started offering San Diegans the Covid-19 vaccine,” says Connie Spiracy, deputy director of media for the city’s Public Health office, “we found that there were two demographics where vaccine-hesitancy was dispiritingly high: …
June 18, 2021
Public Health Officer/Science God thunders declaration from mountaintop: “THE PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER.”
As coronavirus cases continued to drop and California lifted its manifold restrictions on the life of its citizens, San Diego Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten took the opportunity to remind her people that “Governor Newsom …
June 18, 2021
Biden dispatches Antifa and other protesters to crisis zone
As the border crisis deepens and wave after wave of hopeful migrants crashes against Trump’s evil wall, President Biden has taken bold action to address the problem. “It’s clear these folks love America, or at …
May 14, 2021