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[MOVED UP in Case You Missed It:] Arman Sadeghi Spreads Earth Day All Green Message: Recycle Electronics the Right Way

This post that published Friday morning has been moved up for Earth Day and in case you missed it while our site was down.ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 19, 8:16 A.M.: Earth Day is Monday for you and I, but every day is Earth Day for Arman Sadeghi.He founded and runs Tustin's All Green Electronic Recycling, w ... More >>

The Amazing Race Apologizes for Pissing Off Vietnam Veterans and a Token Fox News Liberal

My colleague R. Scott Moxley recently wrote of the shitstorm kicked up after The Amazing Race had contestants visiting Vietnam watch a pro-communist musical show, recite a pro-communist poem and then gather at an anti-American military site in Hanoi. If there was increased interest (and ratings?) ... More >>

Newport Beach Attorney for Lance Armstrong Accuser: 'Confession Brings Day of Vindication'

Chris Manderson, the Newport Beach attorney who represents Tyler Hamilton, the disgraced cyclist and former Lance Armstrong teammate, believes Armstrong's apparent doping confession to Oprah Winfrey "brings a day of vindication" to his client and others who suffered blowback after accusing the seven ... More >>

The End of the World Came and Went, But Training for the Apocalypse Never Ends

The Mayan end-of-days' days passed without the world ending, but you suspect that won't stop the subjects of Rob VanAlkemade's gripping (and surefire) new documentary from preparing for what they believe to be the inevitable.Training for the Apocalypse, which premiered on NatGeo last spring and is n ... More >>

Good Spielberg's Bad Moments

What should we make of radiant 'Lincoln' and blubbering 'Private Ryan'?

Attorney for Former Lance Armstrong Cycling Teammate Unsurprised Doping Probe is Dead

​"There was plenty of evidence of doping, but the fact that there may have been doping doesn't necessarily mean a federal crime was committed."-Chris Manderson, a Newport Beach attorney, reacting via New York Daily News to federal prosecutors dropping a two-year investigation into allegations sev ... More >>

Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea Author Under Fire, Cancels Local Appearance

​Did you catch Steve Kroft's 60 Minutes report in April questioning experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan Greg Mortenson related in his bestsellers Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, as well as the way funds are allocated to his international charity Central Asia Institute?At that time, ... More >>

Pyramid Scheme

Men boasting CIA and FBI ties met in Newport Beach to convince a mysterious billionaire to buy into a secret economy, and nothing was what it seemed

Master-Manipulator Barry Minkow, Former Business Partner of Costa Mesa PR Man, William Lobdell, Gets 5 Years For Insider Trading

Via LA WeeklyBarry Minkow: he prays to the almighty dollar.​Barry Minkow has long been all about making money. He's good at it. At 16, he appeared to have started a carpet-cleaning business called ZZZZ Best, worth hundreds of millions of dollars that turned out to be an elaborate Ponzi scheme. He ... More >>

Barry H. Landau, "America's Presidential Historian," and Supposedly Sticky Fingers Felt Up Nixon Library

​You may have read or heard about Barry H. Landau, who calls himself "America's presidential historian," getting arrested July 9 at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore for allegedly stealing historical documents, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln.Did Landau visit our Nixon Presiden ... More >>

Tyler Hamilton, Cyclist and Lance Armstrong Doping Accuser, Guided by Newport Beach Attorney

Tyler Hamilton​It turns out an Orange County attorney has been along for much of Tyler Hamilton's ride from Lance Armstrong cycling teammate to U.S. Olympic gold medalist to Armstrong-doping accuser on last night's 60 Minutes.Advising Hamilton for years has been Chris Manderson, a partner at Newpo ... More >>

Bob Marley and His 'Songs of Freedom' Live On, Though He Left Us Far Too Early

The man and his music live on.​On Sunday, Jamaica's favorite son and reggae's greatest torchbearer, Nesta Robert "Bob" Marley, would be turning 66. His career came and went quickly but certainly left a profound impact. Though he passed nearly 30 years ago, his music remains just as popular, his me ... More >>

[UPDATED:] "DWI Deaths: Is It Murder?" Plays Out in Santa Ana Courtroom

UPDATE: Drunken driver is convicted of murder, faces 15 years to life in prison . . .In "DWI Deaths: Is It Murder?" last year on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bob Simon talked to people on both side of the debate over whether murder charges should be brought against drunken drivers in some cases where c ... More >>

If Drunk Drivers Who Kill Face Murder Charges, Why Not Charge City Councilman With Attempted Murder?

Watch CBS Videos Online Sunday night, 60 Minutes replayed "DWI: Was It Murder?" Reporter Bob Simon interviewed a prosecutor who pursues murder charges against drunken drivers whose traffic collisions result in deaths of people in the other vehicles. Nassau County, New York, district attorney Kathlee ... More >>

Newport Beach Film Fest: Final Stretch Report

The big question on the mind of anyone amid the crowds at Edwards Island Cinema at Fashion Island in Newport Beach Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights was: My God, don't these people work? And a second: Don't they know we're teetering on Depression? Finally: Buddy, can you spare a ticket?   T ... More >>

OC Journalism Loses Reporter, At Least Temporarily

It's a sad fact that Orange County serves as home to numerous shills pretending to be journalists, but we've also been blessed with excellent reporters who've served their time here before graduating to the national and international stage. To name a few: Dexter Filkins, who has won acclaim for his ... More >>

Moolah Formullahs

All aboard the '80s wayback machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford’s terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Iraq notes (Gratitude and Napoleon edition)

Two quick notes on Iraq. First, in an interview broadcast on last night's 60 Minutes, President Bush was asked "if he owes the Iraqi people an apology for botching the management of the war". His response, "Not at all", will come as no surprise to anyone who has noticed over the past six years that ... More >>

The Wretched of the Wretches

Will OC see the ultimate Catholic pedophile bare all in Deliver Us From Evil?

Devils in Disguise

A documentary portrait of a pedophile preist and his pious protectors

Live Review

Second Coming II: Bob Dylan at the Long Beach Arena, Saturday, October 21

More Drudgery

Alex, of course, is right (see his post here) about the drudges at The Drudge Report– among the many kinds of bastards they are, warmongering bastards ranks pretty high since Bush the Younger took office. But I do think he missed the importance of another, much older Encourager of war and slau ... More >>

Dem Bones

Web Exclusive! Let's Help the Democrats Find Their Spines

Bees, Snitches and Micks

Orange Coast College's Visiting Scholars Series

Mr. Rooney Goes to UCI

Bring me the head of the head head doctor!

A Clockwork Orange

The Blog

The Knightly News

George Clooney tips his hat to Edward R. Murrow

This Is to Tell You About the Barn Dance

Also, about The Book of Shrigley

Dr. Demento

Psychiatrist Park Dietz finds sanity in all the wrong places

So Now What?

No one said freedom was easy

Rohrabacher Gets a Taste of the Lash

OC Republican booed in his own district

Diary Of A Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

Bum Method

His love is a brawl

Etheridgicity!

Bonus: All the dives we love to love!

Letters

The Backlash Passion

A Messianic Meller for Our Time

The Thin Boo Line!

Orange Countys 31 scariest cops!

Letters

Pop Your Go Pills, Then Read

Diary of a Mad County

The Doctor (Death) Is In

A Weekly guide to 10 Dr. Deaths

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a mad county

Orange County, California: 2001

We Love to See You Wretch!

I'm Not Dead Yet

Punk lives in Songs for Cassavetes

Space Cowboy

20 reasons why I love Willie Nelson

Screaming Bedlam

Horrifying stories ripped from the pages of todays newspapers

Take Me Online to the Ballgame

Angels fans fight to the inevitable end