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Archive for October 17th, 2007

Crazy lady sounds off on water usage

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Last year, I wrote a “Snide Remarks” column about a Portland woman who had bought an ad in the ballot information booklet urging people to vote against the library levy — which is to say, she was in favor of closing down the county libraries.

A long-time devoted reader named Nathan has sent me the voter information booklet for Tucson’s upcoming ballot that has a woman who is even crazier. Proposition 200 has to do with water use. If passed, it would repeal the “residential environmental services fee.” I don’t know what it all means, and it doesn’t matter. The point is, here is what a woman named Raquel Baranow paid $500 to say about Proposition 200:

(Source: PDF file, page 15.)

Well said, crazy Bible-thumping, pot-growing Arizona woman!

‘Snide Remarks’ Classic: ‘Jihad to Be You’

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

It may surprise you to learn that I’ve only ever received one Cease & Desist letter, and it was from Gary Larson! It pertained to “Jihad to Be You,” published Feb. 20, 2006, which is this week’s “Snide Remarks” Classic.The subject matter was the then-hot issue of cartoonists drawing pictures of Mohammed and thus incurring the wrath of certain Muslims. How Gary Larson and “The Far Side” fits in, well, you’ll have to read the column and the post-column discussion.

Also: This column caused my friend Michael to leave me a voice mail in which he pretended to be a Muslim (complete with unconvincing Middle Eastern accent!) who was offended by what I had written. Not much of what Michael does is funny, so I like to give him credit when he succeeds.

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