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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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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

blessing! Success is validation rom above .

It’s a common mistake to see a massive

bankroll as evidence o great-guy status, when

what it actually is, is evidence o an ability to

make money. It’s not proo o any other trait

or condition. Don’t ascribe virtue to degree o

wealth – they exist independent o one another

and come in infnite combinations. Apparently,

both Harrison and his supporters bought into

the allacy. Most people do.

In the case o The Scooter Store, wealth

was created through Medicare raud… and

then Medicare raud again. The taxpayer hasbeen Harrison’s whipping boy or a long,

long time. Enough.

\m/

Mike Reynolds

Publisher/Editor-in-Chie

Harrison Compound (Modest by Waco Standards)

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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

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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?

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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”,

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Max on Mexican Logger

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Malt Liquor Showdown Victor on Purple Haze

Last week I was warned that a major hurt

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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

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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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