Frivolous California Assembly resolution targets foul-mouthed Senator

As California continues to plummet toward complete financial collapse, lawmakers in the State Assembly this month put aside a slew of important issues and devoted precious legislative time to pass a resolution that would make the first week of March “cuss-free” in the Golden State. ACR 112, as it is known, will likely face fierce [...]

WARNING: Graphic content. View at your own risk.

Our heartfelt thanks to an old friend for sending this gem along. Yes–that’s a youthful Bonnie Neely, pre-nose-job, pre-dye-job, pre-shitty-job representing the residents of her district. Don’t hate her because she’s beautiful. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Wiggins Batshit Crazy Redux

Apparently California Sen. Pat Wiggins has moved slightly closer to being completely batshit crazy following an incident in Sacramento this week during a packed committee meeting. The Press Democrat reported that she yelled repeatedly at a water container before charging at another senator. She had to be subdued by security. According to the article, Wiggins [...]

Larry Glass wants to punt tough zoo decision to voters

According to the Times-Standard, Larry Glass has secured a spot at tomorrow’s City Council meeting to ask that the fate of the Sequoia Park Zoo’s city-subsidized funding be placed in the hands of voters on an upcoming ballot as the city grapples with the sticky situation of cutting $2.5 million in midyear budget adjustments. How [...]

Proposition 65: How to exploit a good-intentioned law to divert money to shadowy, litigious environmental groups

Q: What do all of the above companies have in common ? A: They were among the 39 corporations sued by Humboldt County’s Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation in 2008 for product warnings and reformulations under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. Proposition 65, which was referenced in a recent T-S My [...]

Quote of the day

Quoth Bonnie Neely in today’s Times-Standard: “The Pacific Legal Foundation is a Sacramento special interest group funded by big oil and tobacco companies, and I don’t think anybody in Humboldt County trusts them to clean up a toxic site.” Uh, yeah. And Bonnie Neely is a washed-up Eureka politician funded by gambling and development interests, [...]

Four days is too long to wait for us to cut and paste an effing My Word

But what the hell, you know? It was a Super Bowl weekend–one of the few times each year we’re allowed to drank early, often and with impunity. So get over it. Oh and while you’re at it, enjoy this My Word from the Saturday Times-Standard. 20 years is too long to wait for action on [...]

James Faulk: The unauthorized translation

For those of you who struggled to understand what longtime Bonnie Neely apologist James Faulk was getting at in his opinion piece news article in today’s Times-Standard, we went to the trouble and expense of having it professionally translated into plain English. No reason why, really, except maybe so even stupid people like us can [...]

When life hands you lemons….

As District Four Supervisor Bonnie Neely parlays her position as chair of the California Coastal Commission into some tidy stacks of campaign cash, her campaign finance filings indicate the true depth of her popular support. Call us cynical, but this looks like something less than an outpouring of grassroots enthusiasm.

Good thing this doesn’t smell bad. At all. Really.

Remember Dana Point? We do, although last time we were there it didn’t look exactly like this. They hadn’t yet, you know, ruined it or whatnot. But let’s not get bogged down in the details. Instead–quickly!!–a few words from the sales literature. Ahem: “Situated on 121 acres of pristine beachfront terrain, The Strand at Headlands [...]