When I was in high school, I was proud of my town’s only claim to fame: it gets destroyed by aliens in Independence Day. I also thought the town was exercising impressive self-awareness when it changed its name from El Toro, which was at least marginally cool (as it referred to a time when bulls, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Orange County'
All In ‘The Family’
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics
Tags: El Toro·Fresh Air·Jeff Sharlet·Lake Forest·NPR·Orange County·Rick Warren·Saddleback Church·Terry Gross·The Family·Uganda
Worst Column Gimmick Ever
September 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · AR, Sports
Loyal readers may have noticed that this is my first post in about a week. One of the advantages of amature blogging is that when one is feeling uninspired, distracted, or simply lazy, one doesn’t have to write anything. Given my work habits, this is probably a good thing. If I were forced to write [...]
Tags: bad writing·Jaycee Dugard·Mark Whicker·OC Register·Orange County·Sports
Republicans Are In Bed With Utilities Lobbyists? (It’s Too Easy)
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics
According to the LA Times: An Orange County lawmaker [Mike Duvall] who inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing abruptly resigned from office this afternoon. The famously conservative Republican Assemblyman was just having a little pre-hearing banter about his sexual exploits with a [...]
Tags: adultery·California Assembly·conservatives·hypocrisy·idiocy·KCAL·lobbyists·Mike Duvall·NY Times·OC Weekly·Orange County·political scandal·Republicans