New Orleans I really love Arizona. It’s beautiful country with an amazing history and people. So was, Mississippi fifty odd years ago, but sometimes the fusion of time, land, and change produces hybrid aberrations that shake society to the core. We need to stop pretending that there’s not something serious wrong in the political and …
Tag: Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Immigration is All Politics: Arpaio Whitewash, DREAM Deferred
Seoul No way! Reading the papers from Seoul (props to ROK as the most internet connected country in the world with free hookups at the airport!), I’m reading that Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa got good and passing grades from the federal Marshall’s audit of his jails in September 2009 and recently. How can you …
Sheriff Arpaio Borderline Weirdness Alert
San Jose Preparing for reentry to the US, it made sense, given all the recent publicity, to check the border crossings and see what was involved before showing up at the airport 3 or 4 hours early to wend our way home. Naturally for a view of whackiness at its worst, I thought I would …