Swooping, waves of the future

.....I keep asking, "Has that 'consultant' showed up yet?" I'm referring to somebody who is supposed to swoop down here and check us out, processwise: interviews, etc. As far as I know, he/she hasn't swooped yet. But wasn't the swoopage supposed to be completed by the end of the semester? What gives?
.....Did you notice the list of (OC college) student newspapers over at the right (i.e., the sidebar)? Check 'em out. Some of us are gearing up to restart the Journalism program here at IVC. Online newspapers: they're the wave of the future, baby.
.....I bet those little Stetsons (see pic) are made of ivory. Wanna bet? I bet the wedding party feasted on California condor livers too. And polar bear cub eyeballs.

H. Millard: "slimy mass of glop"

.....A couple of days ago (Fear and loathing in Costa Mesa), we drew attention to Gustavo Arellano’s review of Humberto Caspa's book: Terror in the Latino Barrio: The Rise of the New Right in Local Government. Caspa, Arellano tells us, seeks to describe the intense anti-immigrant activity that’s arisen in Costa Mesa in recent years.
.....At one point, Arellano writes

.....“This new breed of politicians and political activists is making every effort possible, including the use of Nazi propaganda, to stop the flow of immigrant Latinos and U.S. Latinos into Costa Mesa,” Caspa writes. “Their main objective, in my opinion, is to kick Latinos out of this city.”
.....The main catalyst for this harassment, Caspa maintains, is Martin H. Millard, a Costa Mesa resident nationally notorious for his writings dealing with race for various nativist websites (endorsed by David Duke!) who just happens to be heavily involved in city politics. It’s been through Millard’s urging, for instance, that Costa Mesa officials outlawed soccer at Paularino Park and began cutting off funds to nonprofits that help the city’s Latino neighborhoods. Caspa—who calls Millard “the Costa Mesa Aryan”—does a good job detailing Millard’s rise….

.....I recognized that name: Millard. I vaguely remembered him as some sort of wacked-out racist who weighed in on SOCCCD issues years ago.
.....So I did some checking. Way back in March of 1998, IVC English professor Lisa Alvarez (aka “RG”) wrote a piece appearing in the Times that defended the (then failed) Frogue recall effort. The piece inspired several responses, including this one (on March 22, 1998):

.....Lisa Alvarez [March 15] bemoans the fact that the recall effort against Steven J. Frogue failed, but she fails to understand that it probably failed because most voters understand the real issue was free speech.
.....Even politicians have a right to free speech. When a small group of citizens tries to keep a politician from exercising that right because they don't like the content of his speech, then it is incumbent on all righteous citizens to stand up for free speech, whether they agree with the politician or not.

H. MILLARD
Costa Mesa

.....Well, the recall wasn’t about Frogue’s right to speak. Nobody wanted to take that away from him. It was about his suitedness as a college trustee.
.....I briefly Googled “H. Millard.” I got many hits, including:

• A Year Without Mexicans (a bit of fiction by H. Millard)
• An article entitled, "Martin H. Millard" (OC Weekly, 10/19/06)

.....The latter begins:

Martin H. Millard is best known as the Costa Mesa anti-immigrant gadfly and prolific racist website contributor who once said racial intermarriage will one day lead to the creation of a “Tan Everyman” and, genetically speaking, a “slimy mass of glop.”

.....According to the Souther Poverty Law Center, Millard, whom they identify as a realtor, sometimes refers to "a slimy brown mass of glop."
.....Yikes!

See also
Daily Pilot
SPLC on the Council of Conservative Citizens