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Doug HarrisonCompares Tim Zipp
to Jesus Christ Last week, we covered ormer
Scooter Store executive Tim
Zipp’s resignation rom the City’s
4-B Board, along with Scooter
Store ounder Doug Harrison’s online
deense o Zipp against criticism leveled
in print by the Houston-owned Herald-Zeitung.
Ater we went to press, Harrison posted this
nugget o pure gold on the Herald’s website,
again, in deense o Zipp:“Biblical history does show us that even i
someone is doing the right thing, or the right
reason, and doing it in the right way - there
are still people that will seek to nail that person
to a cross and hang them out in the sun to dry.
It is sad to learn that there are people in New
Braunels with that same short sighted rush to
judgment.” – Doug Harrison, August 20
That quote sums up everything wrongwith The Scooter Store’s executive culture, and
why the company is all but destroyed.
Just to be clear on the whole Jesus thing,
Tim Zipp exiled himsel to his sweet, hal-million
dollar lake house on a street named ater his
amily, with his super-hot wie. Jesus Christ was
beaten, tortured, murdered and thrown in a
cave all by himsel. And he didn’t complain
about it. Not even later when he got better.
We’re airly sure Tim wants Doug to stop“helping” right about now. Comparing his
critics to Christ-killers is seriously overplaying
the righteous indignation hand. Contrary to
Zipp, we hope Doug keeps talking. His hubris
is making the best case possible against him
and the scandal-ridden company he ounded.
Philosophical DyslexiaLast week, we pointed out that Harrison mixed
up the meaning o the word “given” with that o
“taken”. As you can see below, he also conused
the words “unimpeachable” with “questionable”,
and “seless” with “sel-serving”:
“People with the intellect, education,
experience, and unimpeachable personal ethics
o Tim Zipp are rare in this world - much less
in our small town. Thank you or your seless
volunteer service.” – Doug Harrison, August 18
It’s almost as i English is Harrison’ssecond language.
Zipp moved outside the City’s limits in June,
but he didn’t resign, as obligated
to by 4-B rules, until August. In
another August 18 post on the
HZ message board, Harrison
said “Tim’s resignation rom the
4B board was required by a
residency rule, and yet another
demonstration o his lielong
commitment to doing things right. He
moved out o the city, and then ollowed the
rules: as always.”
We disagree. By waiting until August to
resign, Zipp actually broke the rules, which,again, is the opposite o ollowing them. It
should be clear by now to even the most ardent
Harrison devotee how The Scooter Store got
itsel charged with raud and raided by the FBI.
Doug also explained, to another HZ poster,
that Zipp shouldn’t have had to resign rom 4-B
or any reason other than the move, because
no charges had been fled against him.
“You said – ‘Once there was charges
fled...there should have been a change’ I agree. I would bet that Tim would agree as
well. I assume you’re aware that no charges
have ever been fled. Right?”– Doug Harrison,
August 20
We maintain that Zipp should not have
been running two corporations, one o which
was giving taxpayer money to the other, in
the frst place. I charges being fled is the
new standard o right and wrong, expect
civilization to collapse at any time.
An Oversimplied Primer onConfict o Interest
The 4-B Board has a fnite amount o
money it can dole out or various projects,
like roads and payos to well-connected
businesses and the Chamber o Commerce.
For simplicity’s sake, let say that 4-B
has $100,000 to divide up or the beneft o some avored private businesses and maybe a
public project or two, you know, to keep the
rest o us rom noticing what’s really going on.
Zipp deended his place on the Board
as legitimate by insisting he didn’t vote on
anything that had to do with Scooter Store
business. Well, when you’re dealing with
limited resources, in this case, money, every
move aects all parties involved . Every vote
aects Scooter Store business.
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Continued rom previous page.
Now let’s say the road department wants
$40,000 and the Chamber o Commerce
wants $35,000 and H-E-B wants $25,000.
That’s $100,000 right there, and that
distribution plan wouldn’t leave any money to
payo The Scooter Store.
A Scooter Store executive would notallow that scenario to play out. A Scooter
Store executive would demand at least one, i
not all o those parties, take a smaller share,
and vote accordingly.
In a case like this, everything changes to
avor the Scooter Store, beore a Scooter Store
vote comes down.
In order to not aect Scooter Store business
with his vote, Zipp would have had to recuse
him sel rom ALL votes. Don’t orget that thepurpose o serving on a board is to vote. I or
some reason you can’t, you shouldn’t be there,
period. I you’re not available weekends, you
don’t get to work on Space Mountain. I you
can’t vote because your job creates a conict,
you shouldn’t serve. Duh.
It should be noted that City Council put
Zipp on 4-B. They could have removed him at
any time, but that’s not how business is done
in Texas’ Most Corrupt City ™.
It was Our Fault When the Store was raided by the FBI in
February, rank-and-fle employees wasted no
time rallying support or the very executives
that derauded Medicare, cost them their jobs,
and possibly put them at risk o prosecution.
It wasn’t Doug’s ault. Doug’s a saint. Or
Tim’s, despite the act that he was in charge o Medicare compliance or the Store. According
to the executives, it was the government’s ault.
And the press. Laid-o employees and a ew
members o the general public bought it hook,
line, and sinker:
From Facebook:
“News organizations are TOXIC attention-
seeking, sensationalizing, negative entities
that want NOTHING more than to SELL ads
and publications, whether or not what they are
reporting is true, or the whole story.”
“Anyone in the media has a LOT i nerve
calling ANYONE else in the world a crook!
Try looking in the mirror i you want some
negativity to report on!”
“I don’t blame corporate or not keeping us in the loop… I blame those who
run to the media…”
From the Herald-Zeitung Website:“My heart is heavy or the employees o
the Scooter Store… The tabloid and its writers
that have been pounding all o you or weeks,
attacking your business and leaders, trying
to get comments rom you, and, meanwhile,
making un o your product and customers has
defnitely contributed to ruining the reputation
o this company. Keep your heads up and my
best wishes or your well-being.”
Never mind the raud, the continued
raud, and the FBI raid which essentially
shut the company down. Those issues are
not relevant to the aithul.
Look Deep into My Eyes…The Scooter Store was run as a personality cult
rom the ground up, with St Doug at the top.
Consider this:As you might remember rom your CIA
and/or People’s Temple training, there are
our primary motivators or human behavior.
They are money, conscience, ideology, and
ego. Every business exists to make money,
but true organizational domination, the kind
where the company owns the employee inside
and out, requires an appeal to at least one o
the other motivators. And there is no motivator
quite like conscience.
Amateur con-men believe that harnessing
a person’s lower nature is the key to pulling o
a scam. The pros know dierent. They know
that exploiting what makes a person bad will
only take them so ar. The trick is to tap into
what makes a person good – because when
you pull that o, you can get them to do,
justiy, and deend anything.
Fun Fact: Most people would very much
like to be, and think o themselves as, agents
o good. Out o a hundred maniacs, you
probably can’t talk a single one into strapping
on a suicide vest or money - but you can mos
de get ten to do it or ego (virgins), fty or
ideology, and damn near all 100 o them i
you passionately appeal to their conscience.
Those guys pull the pin or one reason –
somebody else convinced them they were
doing the right thing.
Given the devotion shown Doug
Harrison, and Harrison’s own willingness
to compare a Scooter Store executive to the
one man who exemplifes moral perection to
much o the western world, he was apparently
motivated by money and ego. He created an
ideology to support his ego, and then enlistedan army o employees motivated by money
and conscience.
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Beore he let the company, Doug wouldwrap up new employee indoctrination with
a tearul endorsement o the good works the
Store perormed or the infrm. I you only saw
him do it once, you’d probably buy it. Maybe
you did buy it. Now that you know he cried
just about every time he gave his new-hire
speech, you might fnd it a bit more calculated.
Perhaps even cynical, i you will.
With those tears, Doug Harrison tappedinto the better nature o his audience – he
appealed to the conscience o his new
employees. Tears were proo that he was
a good guy. A man worth ollowing – and
deending. Here’s something you can teach
your kids that will serve them or a lietime:
An appearance o sincerity is not evidence o
such, and sincerity itsel isn’t a de acto virtue.
Be careul o who inspires you to ollow
them based on your better nature. There is no
amount o wrongdoing a person isn’t willing to
commit i they believe, deep in their gut, that they
are doing the right thing, or the right reasons.
There is no question that Doug’s
techniques resulted in a religious devotion
to Harrison and the company. Note the
ollowing statements posted to Facebook
in the wake o the FBI raid and subsequent
layos, and the type o language used.These are not just employees, they are true
believers. People that put their aith in a man
who demanded it. True believers – ollowers
– are better than employees. Employees will
work. Followers will sacrifce :
“I believe with all o my heart that the work
we did there was good and necessary. We didn’t
just have a mission statement and core ideologies
hanging on the wall. We LIVED them.”
“We busted or TSS and was very highly
rewarded or our eorts. He could o kept all
his proft but Doug shared his wealth. We
were so spoiled and NEVER will fnd another
company that love us as much as you did.
I was shocked at my frst rally it was like
yesterday!! It was the WOW rally!!”
I suggest next company will not be in
NB. Schertz is a perect location and the city
helps all new business!!! We won’t be called
‘The Cult On The Hill’ anymore…”
(Ok, that last one was just to prove that
even some o the employees knew what Doug
was up to. We presume the new name would
be “The Cult in Schertz”.)
Sacrifce will be important should the FBI
raid result in indictments. History has shown usthat the executives will, to a man, say that they
had no idea that their employees were up to
anything illegal. #enron
Here’s the rah-rah letter the ever-positive
Harrison posted on Facebook or the newly
unemployed. We can’t tell i that Doug thinks
about anything beyond how great his vision
and attitude are:
Good morning to all o my riends and
amily rom The Scooter Store,
First, I want to say thank you to those that
created this page. I wish that we could al l
meet back in the auditorium or one more rally,
but this will have to sufce or now.
Second, I want to thank you ALL or
helping me to create a business that did so
many good things or so many people. You
made our mission statement more than just a
piece o paper on the wall - you brought it to lie every day and changed the lives o millions
o customers across the country. I am so proud
o what we accomplished together.
Equally important to all o the great things
we did together is HOW we did them. In
today’s society I think it is very rare or a large
group o people to come together like we did
and be equally concerned with HOW we
accomplished our goals, and What the goal
was. In other words, I am proud and humbled
by your collective belie in our Core Ideologies
and how we used them to shape and guide
our daily actions.
I wish that I had more inormation that I
could share with you all about what is going
on, and why. There are countless amounts o
speculation and rumors oating around the
community, and in the press. For those o you
that have known me or a long time – you know
that I give very little value, and hopeully even
less wasted time to such rumors. I am confdent
that Marty is doing everything possible to
keep our customers cared or, and keep us all
inormed along the way.
It breaks my heart to see to see the
struggles that so many o you are goingthrough right now. However, I reuse to let it
break my spirit or tarnish the memories o our
incredible accomplishments.
I hope that you will join me in this pledge.
Doug
Hey, it’s easy to stay that positive when
you live here:
The Upshot Doug went out and ound good people, and
convinced them he was just a harder working,
positivier-thinking, more successul version
o them. The message was that they could
become like him, i they aithully ollowed
where he led. But that wasn’t going to happen,
because leaders o any organization always
have a dierent agenda than the rank-and-fle.
Their challenge is to convince you otherwise.
He was, and is, a dierent animal.
Mere employees would never get to where
he was, because nobody becomes successul
by admiring and ollowing a successul guyaround like a puppy. You want an empire?
You’ve got to go out and build/steal it yoursel.
The rank-and-fle were on a completely
dierent track. Their purpose was to serve –
and, more importantly, sacrifce, i called upon
– so the executive suite could reap the major
rewards. Kingdoms and cults have been built
this way rom the beginning o time – Harrison
didn’t break any new ground there.Somewhere along the line, given his
syrupy missives to employees and his deense
o Zipp as a Christ fgure, Harrison bought into
his own hype, and now clearly believes that
he’s the best kind o guy. I mean, look around!
Only good guys get rewarded! Success is a
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It’s a common mistake to see a massive
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long time. Enough.
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TX Citizen: You’re a well-known baby bit away rom the disposable sound type thing, because all the stores want as much as they It’s really tough to fnd. A good buddy sold it
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ydeliverer in these parts. Why did you open this
sweet record store?
Rockin’ Doc, Kevin Blair: It’s kind o a
passion, something I’ve been wanting to do
or a long time. I’ve collected records or
years, and part o the vinyl experience, in my
opinion, is going to the record store and kind
o hanging out and shooting the breeze about
music and recording.In my era, listening to music was dierent
than now. The event was listening to the music.
Nowadays the kids are playing a game,
some video game, with maybe the music in
the background. It should be, to me, the
main thing, the main ocus. When I was
in high school, you’d buy an album, meet
up with some buddies, and sit there and
listen, read the liner notes, see who’s
playing, who’s produced it, and just shootthe breeze about the whole thing.
I’ve always liked the whole record
store scene. I’d look through everything, talk
with the people in the store, ask what’s new
coming out, anything dierent or cool. So, I
just always wanted to be a part o that.
TXC: How oten are you down here,
manning the shop?
RDKB: That’s kind o tough with my
regular job. It’s a amily thing. Usually, my
wie, son or daughter is in here running
it. Then on the weekends, I’ll come down
here. But I’ve had to put a sign up a couple
o times, “Gone to Deliver a Baby”, on the
door, which is a little bizarre or a record
store. But I make it in here quite a bit o the
time. It’s a amily endeavor so ar.
TXC: Your inventory is massive. Where
did you get all this vinyl?RDKB: A lot o it’s rom my personal
collection. I’ve got somewhere around 25,000
records o my own. And then the new stu, I’ve
got a couple o distributers that I can get the
new vinyl, which has really sold well. In act, it
probably sells a little better than the used stu.
TXC: In the age o digital distribution,
what’s the motivation or them to buy vinyl?
RDKB: That’s a great question. I think
right now people are doing a little more whatI’m talking about, the event o listening to the
music. And then it’s considered cool right now.
I kind o lucked out in that. Something that I
love and always wanted to do, I just kind o
got lucky that it’s the in thing right now. I don’t
know i it will last or not.
Maybe it will fzzle out, but I hope not,
because we get people in all the time asking
me or stereo equipment, amplifers, turntables,not just the records, but the whole process o
setting up a stereo at home and getting a little
y p yp g,where it’s more o a listening event at home.
That’s what I’m trying to encourage.
TXC: Do you carry any hardware?
RDKB: We do. We have some turntables,
Audio Technica, which are more or home
stereos where you have to have a receiver
or an amplifer to hook up because they’re
not independent. Then we’ve got the less
expensive, portable turntables, like Crosley.You see them around. We’ve sold quite a ew
o those, actually, they sell pretty well. That’s
what a lot o people start o with.
TXC: What’s up with “Record Store Day”?
RDKB: It’s a big event that’s been going on
or probably like fve years I think. I don’t know
who started it, but there’s a group o people
that decided to try and promote record selling,
that they’d have a day a year to promote
independent record stores, the small mom and
pop’s, kind o like our outft. They’d encourage
people to support them. So they hooked up
with the record companies to put out special
releases that only come out on that day.Limited editions that only have like 500,
1000 or 2000 copies, they’re numbered or
have colored vinyl, or new songs that haven’t
been released yet. It’s gotten bigger every
year. For record collectors, it’s a massive day,
because it’s a lot o stu that’s airly obscure.
Like, we’ve got a Nirvana 10” box set over
there rom Record Store Day. It’s expanded to
twice a year now, and they’ve got some greatPR. They’ve got a website that’s really good.
The tough thing is getting the product,
ycan get. We all know that you can sell out o
all o it. I love how they do it. They make you
sign a pledge that you’re going to sell it or the
regular list price at least or a month, so there’s
no gouging going on, or sticking stu on eBay
and try to rip people o.
It’s worthwhile or people to get out on
Record Store Day and get there and get a
good price on something that’s going to beautomatically collectible. And they’re cool
things, too. I you’re into records, that’s the
stu you really want to get.
TXC: When’s the next one?
RDKB: The main one is in April. This
next one’s on Black Friday. So, in November,
Thanksgiving. They timed it with that. It’s called
“Black Friday Record Store Day”. On the other
one, you can’t open early. This one they allow
you to open at midnight and start selling stu,
to try and jive with all the other retailers.
TXC: So, what else you got?
RDKB: We also have vintage posters. I’m
not into reproduction stu. They’re all original.Most o them are promotional rom the record
companies. Then some odd things thrown in,
like the Ringling Brothers. I love old posters. I
try and pick them up i they’re decently priced.
TXC: So, out o everything, what’s the
prize? The coolest thing you own?
RDKB: Well, the number record that
I wouldn’t sell, my avorite, is Lightnin’
Hopkins, Mojo Hand. I you’re a recordcollector, and a blues guy particularly, it’s a
Holy Grail type thing. The music’s incredible.
y g g yto me. He’s really nice. Sumter Bruton.
He owns Record Town in Ft. Worth. His
amily’s owned the place since the ‘50s. So
when I go home to Ft. Worth, I always go in
there and hang out with Sumter, and he always
invites me over to the house to look through his
stu, and maybe sell me something i I’m lucky.
So one day, I pulled out that Lightnin’
Hopkins and said, “Man, I gotta buy thissucker rom you. What do you think?” And he
said that it was my day, because he needed
some money. Five hundred bucks later, I had
it. And that was a bargain. It’s like a $2000
record. That’s the one I tell my wie to throw
in the cofn with me when they stick me in
the ground! So that’s my avorite, or sure.
TXC: What do the big collectors that
come in ask or?
RDKB: That’s a good question. Itsurprises me, actually, with the groups.
Metallica, Metallica’s massive. As ar as
non-collectors, but selling a lot o, the 70’s
stu. Rush, Zeppelin, Zeppelin’s massive
too. I could sell Zeppelin all day long.
Zeppelin and Pink Floyd are probably the
two biggies that sell.
People always come up and ask
who’s playing. Collector stu, it’s always
blues. Blues is a big thing because they
didn’t put a lot o it out there. It got beat
up usually. They’re all beat to shreds. So,
i you’ve got some decent blues stu, you
can sell that pretty well. But it’s been a
learning experience.
I’m a New Wave/Punk/Power Pop
guy. That was just kind o my era. At my
house, I’ve got a wall o punk 45 picture
sleeves. I’m pretty conservative, a mild-mannered doctor. So, when people come over
to our house and see that room, and there’s
like Sex Pistols, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Dead
Kennedys, all these picture sleeves that are
super cool, and they’re really hard to come by.
Actually, I could sell those all day long,
too. But they’re hard to fnd, and most o them
I only have one o, so they’re not or sale. I
love the things. And or artwork, they’re really
incredible. But people are like, “Wow! Wedidn’t know this about you!” That’s my alter-
ego! That’s when I grew up. Late 70’s, early
80’s, that’s when all this stu hit. So, like The
Clash, I saw them live back in the day at the
Bronco Bowl in Arlington. I saw U2 there. The
B-52’s in the early days. The Alarm. The Red
Rockers, a punk band rom New Orleans that
was really good. I still love ‘em all.
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Uncle Esel,Heard some talk at an establishment
I requent that there were some olderbut not elderly olks who were plenty ticked o about the city attempting toraise taxes. I even managed to overhear
one o them say they should work onrecalling anyone who votes to raisetaxes. What struck me as unny is they seemed like some o the same peoplethat didn’t like the last recall attempt.Do you think they’ll try it, or is it justsome posturing?
Tanks, Stevi
Dear Stevi,Old Uncle Esel has heard a similar thing
rom several dierent people about severaldierent groups o people including some o the “elites.” You know, local business peoplewith political agendas. Uncle Esel isn’t really aan o the recall, but does strongly support thepeople’s right to do so (and or the Council tonot break the law, again).
The diversity o the groups talking aboutthis is a stark contrast to last time around, butultimately it may be utile as the City Attorney
will likely tell the council they can choose todo what they want, law be damned. Last timearound it was mostly working class olks andone current council member doing most o talking and prodding, but it ended with... well,you know. Systemic oppression.
Yep, sounds like the talk at the Buttermilk,the “Y,” and even the good ol’ Herald(Houston-owned that is. The editor requiresthat I mention that.) have aligned and said“enough, already” to City Hall. Mayor Pospisilhas been looking or consecutive tax increasesand seems intent on raising all o our taxes,except o course her own. It’s almost enough tomake me go back on my above statement andstart a petition. Can someone lend me a pen?
Love, K
Uncle Esel, Wow, the President ew a jet just
or the amily dog or a vacation? Isn’t
this wasteul?Rob
Dear Rob,Well, not exactly. You see the wasteul
part is the amount o people and equipmentthat it takes any time any president movesaround. There’s advance teams, advance-advance teams, military and Secret Servicesupport, press corps, and on and on. In the
case o the Presidential Dog, he was simplyput on a separate plane that was bound orthe trip anyway. No word yet on what Secret
Service orders may be i the dog ever getsmad and takes a bite out o the President.
Love, K
Dear Mr. Esel, With all the attention on taxes, what
about the raising o ees? Will it ever stop?Tank You Sir, Fermin
Dear Fermin,I almost didn’t answer this question,
because it seems almost rhetorical in nature,but I thought I would use this to remind thepublic o some still ree things that the Mayor,Interim City Manager or some rogue CouncilMember could still add to the list. Here goes:
- Toe Put-in Fee. Yep, a wristbandpurchased to put your toe in the City’s privateriver. Hey, you stepped on a Fountain Darter.
- Public Consumption Permit Fee. So, you want to eat that taco on a downtownsidewalk? Well, that spilled hot sauce ain’tgonna clean itsel up.
- Excess Squircling Fee. You don’t everneed to go through the plaza circle more thanthree times a day, but i you do, you’ll need aspecial tag.
- Skateboard Tag (just like bikes). You littlepunks didn’t think that skatepark magicallybuilt itsel, did you?
- Walnut Avenue Toll. We regret to inorm you that there will be a minor ee to use this road.
- City Juris Doctorate (lawyer) Fee. So theCity doesn’t really want the ee, they just needpro-bono work done by these local lawyers onthe multitude o lawsuits they have each year.(Heehee, I got the word “bono” into print.)
- Taxes Frozen – Old People’s Fee. Sorry,this idea was already served a cease anddesist letter by the Mayor.
- The Assistance to Local Land SpeculatorsFee. Hey, that at guy ain’t getting at enoughwithout a little assistance. Yeah, that guy. Youknow who you are.
And Uncle Esel’s avorite, the “YouKnow” Fee.
Collected any time a local ofcial is
quoted using the words, “you know.” Basedon a ew recent articles done with the CityAttorney, the Council could shave another 2.3cents o Camereno’s request. In short, Fermin,they’ll never stop. Ever.
Love, K
Uncle K. Esel is a lietime resident o our air city, and is well known or his sage advice on a wide range o topics.I you fnd yoursel perplexed with no one to turn to,send your question to Uncle Esel at: a [email protected]. Be sure to write “Question or Uncle Esel” in the subject line o your email.
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By Gustavo Arellano
Special Labor Day Edición
Dear Readers: The Mexican wants to beat
you to the carne asada case this Labor Day fn
de semana, so behold two oldies-but-goodies
I amazingly haven’t yet passed o as new in
this columna. The frst one is extant and one o
the avorite questions the Mexican ever got;
or the second respuesta I’ve added some
thoughts at the end, given it dates to 2007
yet the question is, like the Mexican lust or
gabachas, eternal. Enjoy, and eat 11 tacos dechorizo or your avorite Mexican, wontcha?
Dear Mexican: Whatever happened
to the “lazy Mexican”? Now all I hear is
that they’re taking our jobs.
RONNIE RACIS
Dear Gabacho: Isn’t that the stupidest
paradox? Really: How can someonesimultaneously be a yeoman and a layabout
unless he’s Shaquille O’Neal? But accusing
ethnics o being both is America’s most
cherished immigrant insult. Every group
elt its contradictory sting: Chinese (opium
smokers or railroad coolies), Irish (drunks
or ward bosses), Scandinavians (oas or
Vikings), Italians (slum dwellers or Mafosi),
Jews (rag-picking parasites or internationalbankers) and now Mexicans.
The insult’s popularity draws its venom
rom our Puritan oreathers, who considered
lie outside o labor sin: it’s a miracle the
phrase on Auschwitz’s gate, Arbeit Macht
Frei (Work Brings Freedom), isn’t inscribed on
the Capitol Dome. What’s strange, though,
is how modern-day gabachos orgot the
Protestant work ethic long ago; meanwhile,immigrants continue to pick up Max Weber’s
ame without orgetting to enjoy lie. Bested
in both works and pleasure, gabachos seethe,
grow at and elect evangelicals—and don’t
get me started about aith without works and
its relationship to American sloth.
I had a heated discussion in my van
pool with a couple o gringos in whichthey made a comment that immigration
(both legal and illegal) needs to stop. I
replied jokingly, “Ten who will take
our orders at McDonald’s, or work in
the felds?” Tey had the nerve to tell
me there are several Americans willing
to work those jobs, especially in the
felds. I laughed. Wasn’t there a study
a couple o years ago in which they
sent Americans who were collecting
unemployment to pick strawberries,
and they all quit within a week?
POCHA FROM HE CENRAL
CALIFORNIA COAS
Dear Gabacho: Many readers have
asked the Mexican about the study you cite,
but I’ve yet to veriy its existence. This makes
me believe it’s an urban legend along the
lines o successul Guatemalans. Besides, who
needs a mythical study proving gabachos
don’t work in agriculture when the government
has documented this phenomenon? Consider
the Department o Labor’s 2005 National
Agricultural Workers survey. The fnding
that’s pertinent to us: 83 percent o America’s
agricultural workers identifed as “Hispanic,”
and Mexicans constituted the vast majority o
that fgure. Gabachos, meanwhile, accounted
or only 3 pinche percent o all ruit and
vegetable gatherers.
Many actors besides laziness
can explain why gabachos won’t take
these jobs—terrible wages and working
conditions, better employment opportunities
or English speakers—but the act remains
that gabachos and crop picking go together
as well as Mexicans and la migra. So,
want to save America rom the Aztlanistas,
gabachos? Head or the felds and groves,
wrap a bandanna around your ace to
end o the pesticides, and start picking.
And make sure there are no bruises on the
ruit, lest the oreman dock you an hour’s
pay. (Modern-day coda: this is exactly what
hasn’t happened in the years since, which
just happen to all under the Great Recession.
Farmers have BEGGED Americans to pick
their crops because o a shortage o Mexican
workers—and, nothing).
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Beer vsBeer With “the Yeasty Boys”,
Max and Victor Godard
Max on Mexican Logger
“Flip Flop, Recycle, Fiesta, Siesta, Roll, Drit,
Session, Rise, Eddy, Buck.” These are the
words on the can o this sel-proclaimed
“Mexican Style Lager” rom the SKA BrewingCo. in Durango, Co. This clear brew is meant
to be enjoyed outside, in the summer, and near
some type o water; be it a swimming pool,
lake, river, or the coast. It’s a light colored
rereshing American style lager with a hint o
citrus avor. Why do they call it Mexican Style
Lager? I don’t know. It drinks more like a very
high quality can o the mainstream yellow fzzy
domestic beer I’ve been accused o drinking
and loving too much. Well? The love remains.
Sorry Vic! You’ve dragged my beer belly
all over this country but my heart belongs to
Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Golden, Colorado.
This rereshing beer uses Saaz hops which
are a “noble” variety o Czech hop common
in those less bitter beers you should be used to
such as Pilsner Urquell and Stella Artois. Yes
Vic, I had to Google that. Honestly, it drinks
like a Miller Lite with a hint o lemon. It’s in a
can with a chainsaw on it… I love it!
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Malt Liquor Showdown Victor on Purple Haze
Last week I was warned that a major hurt
was coming my way compliments o Mad
Max. So here it is: Abita Purple Haze rom
the Abita Brewery north o New Orleans,
Louisiana. This raspberry avored beer
made o German lager yeast with ruit added
during the secondary ermentation. Due to the
addition o ruit, the body is cloudy and the
head disappears quickly. O course, it comes
across as a smooth rereshing ruity beer that
actually tastes purple! This is a great beer or
the summer time as well. Don’t let the name
scare you away. With alcohol at only 4.2%, Ithink the brew master meant the “haze” to be
a lazy day in the hammock and not an evening
ace down on Bourbon Street. Nice try Max!
Unlike your Noble hops Max, Purple
Haze is made with Vanguard hops, which is an
American originated hybrid hop that gives the
beer an herbal and citrus avor. It is a mix o a
lager and a wheat beer. Well done, Max. You
choose two beers extremely similar in ingredients
and overall taste. I can’t pick a avorite.
The Verdict: Draw We agree both beers are light and ruity and easy to drink. Both are high quality American
brews you would take to a summer BBQ or pool party.
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JONES,CHESTER DEE Male • 6’02” • 190 lbsDOB: 06/14/1964CHARGE: Failure toappear for possessionof a controlledsubstance pg 1 under 1 gram and bail
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DOB: 02/27/1980
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DOB: 05/03/1963
CHARGE: Burglary
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previous convictionsand two counts of bail
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CHARGE: Motion to
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with two or moreprevious convictions
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DOB: 02/02/1987
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LEE MATTHEW
Male • 5’10” • 215 lbs
DOB: 07/05/1982
CHARGE: Driving
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Female • 5’05” • 156 lbsDOB: 08/08/1978
CHARGE: Motion torevoke for possession
of a controlledsubstance pg 1 under
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On Considering the SourceWhen teaching students to write, one o
the greatest difculties I ace is getting them
to flter the inormation they get. Part o this
is just getting past the intellectual laziness
that causes people to work with the frst
source they fnd in a simple Google search,
but there is a deeper cultural problem too.
We’re trained (and perhaps biologically
programmed) to respond to what is oten the
most extraneous inormation. The antastic, the
sensational, the marketed and sometimes eventhe manuactured draws us like a moth to the
ame. In some cases, the ault is our own, but
media we ingest can make things worse.
Where the ault is our own, confrmation
bias is the most likely culprit. Confrmation
bias is where we tend to seek out opinions that
mirror our own or when we look or evidence
that supports our previously held positions.
There’s nothing unnatural in this, but it can
lead to poorly ormed or supported ideas. I we don’t look at the other side o any issue,
then we aren’t getting the whole story. Imagine
a trial where the prosecution was allowed to
make their case but the deense could neither
cross-examine nor rebut. An easy conviction
would almost certainly ollow.
Unortunately fnding sources that provide
the whole story is nearly impossible. The best
inormation is almost always the hardest tofnd, oten hidden away in arcane academic
journals that are difcult or even the most
educated layman to comprehend. Even in
those sources, caution is advisable. While
data is generally unbiased, the conclusions
drawn rom that data can be as dubious as
the story about a man who was attacked by a
chupacabra on his ranch last Thursday night.
The only solution is to vary your sources,
look at their evidentiary value and learn tointerpret data or yoursel. A healthy dose
o common sense can be helpul as well.
Remember the old adages that your parents
taught you: There’s no such thing as a ree
lunch. I it seems too good to be true it
probably is. A ool and his money are soon
parted. These are as likely as anything to
keep you rom buying the next miracle cancer
cure, believing the next outlandish scientifc
theory or accepting at ace value the next
State o the Union address.
The act that we need to be active and
skeptical in our pursuit o inormation does not
excuse those who seek to mislead. In this area,major media sources and political activists
are the most to blame. One can orgive the
person who legitimately believes the Rapture
will occur this year or the lie-long marijuana
user who insists he has careully collected data
rom his own lie to prove that there are no ill
eects rom using the drug (he would take them
to his riend at the university to check them out
i he could only fnd his car keys), but a news
organization that claims to be doing a publicservice or the activist supposedly working or a
better world deserve more disdain.
The reasons that our media aren’t always
trustworthy sources o inormation aren’t always
as insidious as it seems at frst glance; sometimes
it’s disturbingly mundane. “I it bleeds it leads”
is a mantra that brings us stories about mayhem
and disaster even when lie’s reality doesn’t
reect the evening news. We see this with stories
o Chicago violence or thugs indiscriminatelykilling senior citizens. The act that the stories
are sensational is what makes them news, not
that they represent anything new or oretell o
some growing problem. The act is that crime o
all types is down and has been steadily moving
down since the mid 90’s. Even school shootings
are not more common than they have ever been,
regardless o how it seems.
The game is about putting eyeballs in
ront o television sets (or computer screens),
and everyone knows a good horror show
is an attention grabber. The only thing that
works better is sex – just ask Madonna, or
Lady Gaga, or Miley Cyrus. An enlightening
experiment in this regard is to sit in ront o the
evening news with a stopwatch and time what
you get or actual inormation. When you sort
out the ear mongering, titillation and touching
human interest u, you’ll be surprised at how
little is let. This certainly isn’t the only sin o the
major media, but it accounts or a lot.
A good portion o the rest can be chalked
up to pushing a biased narrative. For years
this has been a distinctive and ever-increasing
letward slant, but the inux o internet sources
and Fox on cable has shown that both sides
can play the game. This is probably the most
dangerous type o misinormation: where one
side only is presented in an active attempt toskew opinion. This is fne or commentators,
but news should at least try to be balanced.
Again, not all the content we get fts the above
description, even rom the worst o sources,
but there’s enough o it to make being wellinormed difcult.
Be sure, too, that you don’t stop just
looking or political bias. Remember that these
sources are oten corporations, and some
agendas are beyond politics. A direct chance
to promote some business venture or plug a
legislative rule that benefts the sponsoring
corporation are invaluable in a business
sense and sometimes almost impossible to
spot without insider knowledge.No less important than the news sources
themselves are the political activists the media
calls on to comment on the story o the day.
These are people who have an obvious bias,
but even when they are presented even-
handedly (both sides being represented),
i there is no questioning o their assertions,
activists are given license to tell alsehoods
and hal-truths. From a consumer’s perspective,
it’s best to take everything said by activistswith a tablespoonul o salt and to check every
assertion they make or yoursel.
Beyond all this, recent events should show
that our government is more than willing to
obuscate the truth when they aren’t outright
lying to us. Again this is a bipartisan eort.
The only certain thing is that both sides have a
vested interest in an increasing share o public
power. Notice that the typically civil libertarian
let has made no eort to pull back the Patriot
Act or the security state. The pro private sector
right, likewise, seems to be balking at a
deunding o Obamacare. In both cases, these
are pieces o legislation that they rail against
during campaigns but provide power that is
hard to resist to those who write the rules.
It’s worth concluding that my own
column should receive the same scrutiny.
I write an opinion column, ater all, and I
am hardly immune to personal prejudices
and shortsightedness. I try to make clear the
distinction between opinion and act, but I’m
certain I don’t always succeed. Where I do
ail, I hope that people will call me out on it.
(Politely is nice.) I’m always willing to hear
a dissenting view, and I’m happy to provide
sources or the assertions I make.
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