Subject: Abraham Lincoln

• Now He's Worried

  Kevin Phillips is worried. Perhaps the brightest of the version of "the Best and Brightest" who followed Nixon to the White House in 1968, Phillips looks at today's GOP and doesn't like what he sees. It's the subject of his new book, American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, the thesis of which he sums up in a Washington Post op-ed. Over a quarter-century of Bush presidencies and vice presidencies, the Republican Party has slowl

  April 3, 2006

• Straight Dopes at the Times

  The LA Times editorial mudpatch really threw a bitch-fit over Sheila Kuehl's SB 1437, which they say would require California textbooks to "tell the stories of contributions made to history by gays and lesbians." They jest that Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) may be trying to write herself into the history books (Kuehl was the first openly gay member of the State Legislature). The Times takes issue with Kuehl because they think history books ought to "tell about the most important contributions, and misd

  May 9, 2006

• Nguyen Wins

  Garden Grove city councilmember Janet Nguyen is seems the winner of yesterday's special election in the Board of Supervisor's First District. The vote count currently on the Registrar of Voters website gives Nguyen a 52 vote margin of victory over second place finisher Trung Nguyen. The big story out of yesterday's election seems to be the emerging clout of Vietnamese-Americans as a voting bloc, since neither Nguyen had the official backing of their party. Is it too much to hope for that a ph

  February 7, 2007

• Does a Bear Shit in the LA Times?

  If you read Monday's Los Angeles "By God" Times Business section (and why would you?), you might've choked on your French Roast when you came on C3's three-quarter page advert announcing the California Bear is missing from the state flag. The gloomy gray gus informed that the Grizzly "grew tired of special elections and old promises," that it "went into hibernation waiting for progress to alleviate high taxes and high business costs," that "changes were too few and too slow." Make no mistake, B

  January 24, 2006

• Beach Boulevard Breakdown

  March 25, 1999

• The World According to Walt

  January 6, 2000

• Camp Dick

  April 20, 2000

• Behold the Stoner

  October 12, 2000

• Masterpieces of Creepiness

  January 24, 2002

• Honest Abe Serves 'em Straight at Memphis

  Over the weekend, Johnny Sampson freaked me out. I spotted some tall, gangly gabacho at SanTana's Día de los Muertos event who looked just like the beloved Memphis at the Santora bartender but had his hair dark--and he looked mean. Sampsons later explained that his dye job to his naturally redhead foliage was because he was prepping to serve as Abe Lincoln on Election Night, but the fucker freaked me out. It was all for a good cause. Sampson was manning the Memphis bar early in the Election ev

  November 4, 2008

• Timber!

  April 2, 2009

• Honest Abe Lincoln Delays OC Participation in Same-Sex Marriage Stunt

  Tomorrow, same-sex couples throughout the country will go to their local county clerk counters and request marriage licenses as part of National Freedom to Marry Day. That won't happen in Orange County, however. The Old County Courthouse is closed due to Abraham Lincoln's birthday. This is ironic, given that everyone knows Lincoln was gay.And so, Orange County's participation in National Freedom to Marry Day moves to Friday, Feb. 13. The same Friday the 13th that sees the opening of the new Frid

  February 11, 2009

• Artwork Depicting Martyred Peace Advocates Spun Into Film

  You may recall Laguna Beach's Tim Leedom from his books about the evils of organized religion. Or his TV and film production work. Or his carrers as a college-football player and NFL scouting facilitator. Or his time in Hawaii's offices of power. Or his publishing companies. Leedom's latest project brushes up against at least a couple of these areas. His Newport Beach-based American Nation Films has begun filming the documentary Satyagraha, which was Mahatma Gandhi'

  February 16, 2009

• To Do This Weekend 4/10-4/12

  Timber!, Daily until Sun., May 3Featuring Chad Eaton's storybook paintings of lumberjacks and Abe Lincoln look-a-likes strike a curious chord with the young and cultured.Hibbleton Art Gallery, 112 W. Wilshire Ave., Fullerton, CAEgg Hunt, Saturday, April 11, 9 a.m.The event will include an arts and crafts faire, community performances on stage, a children's area with face painting, art workshops and games, a monster egg hunt where kids search for hidden eggs containing monster toys and stickers,

  April 10, 2009

• Timber!

  April 9, 2009

• Bicycle Races Are Coming Your Way at Santa Ana's Go, Rilla! Gallery

  August 28, 2008

• Eoin Breadon and Jason Chakravarty Haunt @Space Gallery. Also: Lee Price at Sarah Bain Gallery

  May 1, 2008

• Abesolutely Fabulous

  January 10, 2008

• French Disconnection

  David Wilhelm gets crazy with the re-branding

  November 15, 2007

• Is It Time for Ted Crisell?

  November 29, 2001

• Hand It to Him

  OnDVD: The Science of Sleep

  February 8, 2007

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force Review Critique for Newspapers

  ATHFCMFFT is 87 minutes of pure art, with fries

  April 12, 2007

• Sweat the Technique

  Painter Mark Cummings drops old-schooloils like science By Theo Douglas

  January 4, 2007

• Taken for a Ride

  October 12, 2006

• Movie of the Week Also Showing

  May 11, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 19, 2006

• THE WAR IS OVER. STOP FIGHTING

  The truth about de-evolution: It was true

  July 28, 2005

• Dear Reader

  June 2, 2005

• The Religious and the Secular Could Be Friends

  March 10, 2005

• Shoot a Republican: The Sequel

  March 10, 2005

• Stuck in the Rest Area

  December 9, 2004

• Letters

  June 10, 2004

• We Respond to Register Letters

  November 20, 2003

• Wiggers With Attitude

  November 13, 2003

• Queer Eye for the GOP Guy

  October 2, 2003

• Love Kills

  April 10, 2003

• Only 20 Minutes

  January 30, 2003

• No Justice, No Teach

  October 31, 2002

• Caucasian Cacophony

  May 23, 2002

• America the Booty Full

  July 26, 2001

• Shoe-Nomenal!

  April 20, 2000

• Letters

  January 20, 2000

• CD REVIEWS

  June 10, 1999

• Dad Must be So Proud

  September 17, 1998

• 'The Merchant of Venice' as Proto-Bromantic Comedy?

  August 20, 2009

• George McGovern Spreads Peace at the Warring Nixon Library

  George McGovern, peacemaker​It took former U.S. Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) to bring peace to the library and museum dedicated to the memory of his opponent in the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon.  Ten weeks after the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced it was ending co-sponsorships with the federally funded Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum over the museum-sponsored, June 17 appearance by John Dean, the foundation and mus

  August 25, 2009

• Gore Vidal and George McGovern Are the Stars, But Spirit of Ted Kennedy Also Fills Nixon Library

  Photo by Christopher Victorio George McGovern (left) listens to Gore Vidal's introduction at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.Legends of liberalism Gore Vidal and George McGovern were the honored guests at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda last night, but the spirit of Ted Kennedy also filled the replica of the White House's East Room.   Yes, you read that right: the RICHARD NIXON Presidential Library and Museum.

  August 27, 2009

• Gore Vidal, George McGovern and Spirit of Ted Kennedy Take Over the Nixon Library

  September 3, 2009

• Eight Questions with Rick Berry

  ​Rick Berry's a lot of things. Some of these things include jazz trumpeter (currently in the Hollywood Canteen Swing Band), political candidate (he ran for Long Beach city council) and gardener (he's got a killer backyard garden). But to the rest of the world, he's got a new title that is pretty darn spiffy--marketing manager for the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. If you're like me, you're wondering why a jazzman is getting in bed with classical music. I just had to ask.1. Tell the people a li

  October 13, 2009

• Twitter to Be Used to Contact Michael Jackson, Other Dead Folks

  "I see dead celebrities."​Twitter has many uses: spreading important information and breaking news. Seeing super-awesome iPhone pictures from concerts that we're attending. Letting us know when Ashley Tisdale is getting her hair done. But now the limits of Twitter's power will truly be tested, as a UK costume shop will be using it on October 30 to raise the dead (cue ominous music!).

  October 14, 2009