Try Hanging Garlic From the Computers

Truth and consequences.

* Someone distributed red handbills at recent high school graduations in San Diego warning grads not to attend Coleman College.

Among the charges leveled against the computer school: that one of the Coleman schools (the flyer doesn’t say which) has fleas.

For the record: Dr. Coleman Furr, the president of Coleman College, blames a disgruntled Coleman graduate and says none of his three schools (La Mesa, Chula Vista, San Marcos) has fleas: “Heavens, no.”

* The hyping of the eclipse.

A San Diego tour group is offering a two-day, one-night trip for $495 to Mazatlan to witness the July 11 total eclipse of the sun (it will only be partial in San Diego), the only total eclipse in North America until 2017.

It bills the event as the “Woodstock of Our Generation.”

If so, it’ll be quicker than the original: The eclipse will be total for only six minutes.

* People are inflicting more than just verbal abuse on San Diego parking controllers.

A guy was just arrested for assaulting one. He hadn’t even received a ticket; the controller merely happened upon a domestic dispute in progress.

* Tom and Doug.

Douglas Seymour, who infiltrated Tom Metzger’s Ku Klux Klan nest on behalf of the San Diego Police Department, is being taken to Los Angeles from Wisconsin at government expense to testify against the Fallbrook racist.

Metzger is on trial for cross-burning, and a grand jury in Los Angeles continues to probe his other hate-filled activities.

Seymour has fallen on hard times: The $300,000 he received from suing the San Diego P.D. is gone, and he’s been convicted of cheating a business partner in La Crosse, Wis.

His sentencing is being delayed, pending a determination of how helpful he is in nailing Metzger. And there’s talk of him entering the federal Witness Protection Program.

The Sound and the Fury

It is written.

* A noise vs. view controversy is shaping up in North County.

Caltrans is considering whether to build an 8-foot-tall, 1,800-foot-long noise wall on the west side of Interstate 5, just south of Via de la Valle in Solana Beach.

It would block freeway noise for the 2 dozen pricey homes next to I-5. But it would also block the gorgeous view of the Del Mar Fairgrounds and Pacific Ocean for hundreds of thousands of motorists.

Caltrans put up marker sticks to show where the wall would go and expects to hear much from both sides before deciding.

* New from Sunny Girl Press in La Jolla: a paperback, “It’s Not PMS! . . . it’s just another divorce,” by Kimberly Bennett.

Her qualifications: “I’ve lost two husbands to younger women and faster cars.”

* After last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, San Diego City Councilman Ron Roberts says he’ll introduce an ordinance to ban nude dancing locally.

Mayor Maureen O’Connor says she will oppose Roberts--that San Diego’s few nude nightspots are basically harmless and provide diversion for military personnel.

* For friends and reporters, Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham (R-San Diego) does a passable imitation of Glen Campbell.

* For the first time, organizers will sell advertising space on the outside of portable toilets being installed for the San Diego Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade on July 20.

X-rated ads will be forbidden.

Eight Ball, in the Left Molar

Billiards has been trying to shake its pool hall image in recent years.

It’s a family game, say enthusiasts, not one where you’re liable to get a fist in the mouth if you say the wrong thing.

Pacific Bell may not be getting the message.

The Times’ Pete Zacchino notes that on Page 389 of the new Smart Yellow Pages for San Diego, right smack in the section for Billiard Equipment and Billiard Parlors, is a small public-service filler:

“Four Steps to Save a Knocked Out Tooth . . . “