Send principal back to school
A Hollister school principal tells a third-grader that he had
been caught on video defacing bathroom walls. But even the
third-grader knew the cameras were fake. Did the third-grader catch
the school principal in a big fat lie? Yep. School principal
outsmarted by student not uncommon
… but by a third-grader? Aye chee waa waa. Ready for my closeup
Mr. DeMille.
Send principal back to school
A Hollister school principal tells a third-grader that he had been caught on video defacing bathroom walls. But even the third-grader knew the cameras were fake. Did the third-grader catch the school principal in a big fat lie? Yep. School principal outsmarted by student not uncommon … but by a third-grader? Aye chee waa waa. Ready for my closeup Mr. DeMille.
San Juan Bautista nearly passes a tax increase just as the press, Hollister politicians, the sheriff and that barfly are writing eulogies with glee that San Juan Bautista will soon no longer be an independent city. San Juan Bautista Mayor George Dias wanted to rightfully spend the added revenues for fire, police and community services. If the press, the elected officials in Hollister, the sheriff and the barfly had their way the money would have been spent on San Juan Bautista’s last rites service. But Mayor Dias, ever the optimist, isn’t about to call Grunnagle’s. And George is right. If the citizens of San Juan Bautista, my birthplace, in this economy can vote for higher taxes failing by one they are either nuts or crazy. Hell, the citizens of Hollister have been nuts and crazy and they still have a city. Therefore I will match my nuts in San Juan Bautista any time.
Loved that near Kodak Mothers Day moment in Hollister of that 35-year-old mom and her teenage daughter bonding as they try to steal pants from a Hollister merchant. I’m not sure if they stole the pants from the store or off the owner. Aye chee waa waa.
Last week I vowed to use all my investigative reporter skills to crack open the bowels of the Pinnacle braintrust and find out about the free Pinnacle becoming 75 cents, especially since I always rag on the Free Lance for being the Fifty Cent Lance. The Pinnacle Editor explained the financial mechanics to me a dozen ways and I still didn’t understand it, but then, I can’t balance my own checkbook and all I have is just four accounts – rent, electricity, bar tab and $300 per month porn cable bill.
I’m sorry but am I the only one who feels the official Hollister Motorcycle Rally T-shirt is giving biking a negative image? When I was much the lone voice writing in the Hollister Free Lance when it was the greatest hometown newspaper in the United States and parts of Puerto Rico it was the positive image of the biker that won over readers. Now the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce makes it look like death in the persona, or rather the non-persona, of a hideous skeleton riding a motorcycle with a smiling bimbo clutching behind her “man.: Is this really the image of bikers the Chamber of Commerce wants to sell? The Chamber of Commerce has made it way too easy for critics of the rally. One look at the official Chamber of Commerce T-shirt and I am ready to say “lock up your wife and daughters. And Junior too!” Aye chee waa waa.
Tim Russert of “Meet the Press” was my political hero. When he took out his little blackboard and wrote the delegate math that sealed Hillary’s non-chance I knew he was right and I slept better that night several months ago. But for months after the press still kept covering the election as though it were a race. I’m going to miss you Tim, at 58 it was way too early to count your last delegates.
The small Aromas Post Office is safe for now. Here is a tip for new Hollister residents who hate the long lines at the Hollister station. When I lived in Hollister I would usually gather up my postal business and take a nice leisurely drive to Tres Pinos, San Juan Bautista or Aromas. Great little places to eat, stress-free postal service that make Tres Pinos, San Juan Bautista and Aromas three great reasons to live in Hollister. Huh?
Editor’s note: Bob’s right. The Pinnacle is now 75 cents at racks in areas where home delivery is available. Delivery to most homes in San Benito County continues and, like the signs say, “the first copy is still free.” The content of the Pinnacle is also available online at www.pinnaclenews.com.
