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Fitz Blog: Tea parties, trolleys and diplomas
Targeting the Tea Party is wrong. I do feel targeting groups who are clearly political action fronts who shamelessly claim the “social welfare” tax exemption is the right thing to do. One lump or two with your tea?
Fitz Blog: Tooth fairies, weed and trolleys
According to a study an estimated 1, 500 jobs will be created by Arizona’s medical marijuana industry. 10, 000 in the snack food industry, 4,000 in bong manufacturing, 599 in the breath mint industry and the millionaire who owns the murine fr…
Fitz Blog: Benghazi fever
Republican lawmakers asked increasingly tough questions today as they held another day of hearings to investigate, in the words of anyone but Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), “The 935 documented lies which brought about the botched 8-year ra…
Fitz Blog: This just in
More than 1 out of every 4 Tucsonans lives in Poverty which is due north of Dire Poverty and 3-streets over from Chronic Poverty. I call it the Tri-Cities because everyone is trying their best to stay afloat, which is easier said than do…
Fitz Blog: Your Weekly Local News Update
The story about the ricin sent to a handful politicians is a pretty gripping crime story. Investigators were looking at an Elvis impersonator with bipolar disorder who was sparring online with a child molesting martial arts master who fronts …
Fitz Blog: ASDB Troubles
The National Association of the Deaf has joined others calling for change of leadership at Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Superintendent Hill and Board President Jones reacted with a gesture of defiance that you didn’t…
Fitz Blog: Local tragedy
A Tucson area man won a $1 million-plus jackpot at Desert Diamond Casino playing the slots on Friday and lost it all Saturday at the Pima County Fair trying to toss rings on to coke bottles. He was unavailable for comment.
Fitz Blog: Tucson Water's New Mascot
We're Tucson Water, where blood’s thicker than water and patronage flows downhill. Before we get onto the big news of the day we'd like to respond to the Star's so-called "investigation" about some bid somewhere for something that has somethi…
Fitz Blog: Melvin to run for White House
MARS - Three-term state Sen. Al Melvin announced Monday he intends to run for President of the United States this coming year. “Although it’s not an election year I’m not going to let that malarkey stand in my way.”
Fitz Blog: Pension system unsustainable, City to ask retirees to die
With Tucson police and fire pension costs expected to rise to $42 million, the City Council voted Tuesday to create a task force to look for ways cut the costs, including asking city retirees to die "As soon as possible."
Fitz Blog: Public Art
A pair of life-size dancing women, sculpted in bronze, now adorn the Fourth Avenue underpass. The city originally commissioned a male and female dancer in 2003 but, due to budget cuts, the male was replaced with a second female who will do th…
Fitz Blog: ASU
Arizona State University students began voting Monday for a new mascot. The updated version of “Sparky”, resembling the masked character from “V for Vendetta”, was rejected because he looked too intelligent. The online ballot features the fol…
Fitz Blog: Principles and principals
4 TUSD Principals may lose their jobs over their failure to reverse effects of chronic poverty in hellholes with underfunded and understaffed schools dealing with the regulatory burdens and the special needs populations that Charter schools c…
Fitz Blog: Every gun is sacred
Every Gun is Sacred (Sung to the tune “Every Sperm is sacred”)
Fitz Blog: The New World Odor
Suffering a collective attack of painful intestinal gas , a coterie of chronically flatulent Arizona Republicans warned of a new world odor at a legislative hearing on the "Agenda 21 UN-Communist Conspiracy" last week in Phoenix. One by one …
Fitz Blog: Toby
Country music superstar Toby Keith made a guest appearance at his namesake bar and grill in the Tucson Mall on Saturday where he announced his restaurant will not serve the Taliban, threatened to kick Kim Jung Un to “Kingdom come”, and shove …
Fitz Blog: Herr Bieber
Famed historian/philosopher turned entertainer, Justin Bieber, visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, and signed the museum’s guestbook, inscribing the following profound thought about the world famous Holocaust victim:
Fitz Blog: Arizonapithecus Maricopa
Deepening the mystery of human origins, researchers offered the most complete view yet of fossils from a puzzling forerunner of humankind, known as the Arizona legislator, revealing that these creatures were, from tiny head to size 12 boot, m…
Fitz Blog: Jonathan Winters
According to the Paradise Observer, the late comedian Jonathan Winters arrived in Heaven Thursday and opened with a stunning 45-minutes of cloud breaking improvisation with a halo handed to him by the late Jack Paar.
Fitz Blog: It's news to me
Update: Gay America had announced it is turning over it's closet over to bigots saying,"It's all yours. We are done with it. You're going to need a place to hide."
Fitz Blog: School Sex scandal headlines
Area High School art teacher gets 3-years for sex with students, weeps at sentencing Male students victimized by high school art teacher receive high-fives, get wrong idea about women Male students to receive counseling on feigning remors…
Fitz Blog: Margaret Thatcher
Upon arriving at St. Peter’s Gate the “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher promised to save Paradise from “ruin”, and proceeded to break the Halo and Wing Manufacturers union, and declare war on Satan, asserting, “I’ll send warships to Hell if I ha…
About this blog
David Fitzsimmons is the Star's editorial cartoonist.
To reach Fitz call 520-573-4234 (office) or email him at tooner@azstarnet.com.
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