PhotosFrom 2018...San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy surprised critics and supporters alike last Sunday when he ordered the body of former La Jollan and sex-abuse whistleblower Richard Sipe to be exhumed and burned in public before …
January 17, 2025
Articles by Walter Mencken
Putatively progressive prelate McElroy goes old school; exhumes body of whistleblower Richard Sipe and has it burned
McElroy takes Mencken to Sunday school
FOUNDER’S CHAPEL, USDRobert Cardinal McElroy: Ah, Walter. Welcome. Have to come to confess, or merely to pay your respects?Walter Mencken: Nothing to confess except my admiration, Your Eminence, and as for respect, if I hadn’t …
January 17, 2025
East County militia remains on high alert after shooting down “manned” drone near border
“It just doesn’t make sense,” says Clyde Yokel, head of the East County Patriot Association. “The whole point of a drone is that you don’t have to have anyone on board. We get some giant …
December 27, 2024
THEIR Lady of Guadalupe?
North Park resident Leticia Salcedo stands beside the Mexican folk art display she has maintained outside her home for two decades after last week’s fiery attack that left parts of it charred and dead. “I …
December 27, 2024
San Diego’s Poet Laureate puts down his pen
“It’s been a good run, and we had some fun, but now I’m done,” says San Diego’s Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez of his two-year stint in the position. The reason he’s stepping down? “Put …
December 27, 2024
Ray Kroc and Hunter S. Thompson had nothing on Trump
[Note: None of this actually happened. But eight years ago, I sat down with some political luminaries to discuss the shocking election of Donald Trump to the presidency. Looking back, what's most remarkable — touching, even — …
December 25, 2024
In-n-Out alters iconic symbol to reflect “modern-day California”
Spokesman Bob Doubledouble: “We thought about just dropping the fronds as a nod to the devastation being wrought by the South American palm weevil, which is munching its way through the state’s Canary Island date …
November 15, 2024
Trump names local supporter new Border Czar
<inline type="photothumb" id="158668" href="" align="right" />Every day for eight years, San Diegan Blake Marnell has been wearing a suit made from brick-patterned fabric in order to signal his support for President Trump and what was …
November 15, 2024
Undocumented workers break for Trump in 2024
Voter analysis in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as President last week has shown that he made gains this time around with numerous minority groups, including LGBTQIA+, Latinos, and Blacks. But yesterday, Chula Vista …
November 15, 2024