Subject: Censorship

• Beating around the Bush, or not, in Irvine

  Good news for those of us who have never seen the power of a monarchy in action, and the servility it demands of its subjects. President Bush is extending his weekend trip to California, and will be visiting scenic Irvine on Monday. According to the Register, "Bush will speak to the Orange County Business Council between 8 and 9 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Irvine". He'll be talking about immigration reform. So, if you want to get a look at the president... well, unless you're one of the preselect

  April 21, 2006

• Minuteman's Time Up

  Certain students at Columbia University are none too fond of Jim Gilchrist. Yesterday the former accountant and OC native's speech was interrupted by protesters storming the stage, where some sort of fracas broke out. Though many news accounts suggest that Gilchrist himself was attacked, he appears to have been escorted offstage with the quickness; perhaps they mean he was attacked in the ideological sense? FOLLOW THIS LINK to see eyewitness video of the protest, courtesy of the Columbia Univers

  October 5, 2006

• Think for Yourselves, Young Folks, so Long as You Think Like Me

  You know what's funny? We ask our young adults to throw themselves into the youth versions of established adult institutions—your governmental bodies, your newspapers, etc.—but when the kids dare express dissent or themselves in a way that rubs the ruling class the wrong way, the adult overlords crack down on the kids. Case in point: the Orange Coast College student government. For whatever reason, the student body officers decided they would no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance be

  December 4, 2006

• Muzzling Troy

  Troy High School in Fullerton has a lot going for it. The combined public and magnet school is known for its high SAT scores, Troy Tech and International Baccalaureate programs, its wins or high placements in the U.S. National Science Olympiad and Western Regional Science Bowl sponsored by NASA/JPL, and recognitions for being among the nation's top schools from President Clinton, the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence panel and the selection committee for California Distinguished Schools.

  April 11, 2006

• Minutemen-Mexican Fundraiser!

  June 24, 2008

• Why I Hate Ho Chi Minh

  February 25, 1999

• Bandwidth on the Run

  March 9, 2000

• Dine and Dashboard

  March 29, 2001

• Window Pain

  April 5, 2001

• Neil Young thinks I'm an asshole, and he totally quoted me out of context, too!

  Colleague Matt Coker recently tipped me off to a cameo appearance I kinda-sorta make in Deja Vu, the new documentary flick about Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 2006 Freedom of Speech tour of America, when the foursome hit the road in support of Neil Young's politically pointed Living With War album. I'm not actually seen in the movie (god forbid), but I'm heard, which is where the kinda-sorta comes in. About 22 minutes into it, as you watch sweeping helicopter shots of downtown Los Angeles and

  October 23, 2008

• Disgraced Ex-Los Al Mayor Has a Facebook Fan Page!

  What is it with the recent trend of disgraced politicians insisting their 15 minutes ain't up? The national case is ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich; the local example is former Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose, the fool who forwarded along the cartoon to your left with the caption "No Easter egg hunt this year," then ridiculously claimed he had no clue watermelons are a pickaninny signifier par excellence. Grose resigned both his ceremonial mayoral post and his council seat after a barrage of

  March 8, 2009

• Holocaust-Denying Brits Languish in Santa Ana Jail, Become Worldwide Far-Right Celebrities

  Amongst the many wabs, a couple of chinitos, and I'm sure more than a couple of gabachos currently in custody at the Santa Ana Jail are British nationals Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle. They haven't committed any crime in the United States but have nevertheless languished under the watchful eye of SanTana immigration guards for almost two years in a fascinating case involving free speech, international jurisdiction, Holocaust denial, and an American media that just doesn't give a damn about

  March 28, 2009

• Friday - 11/30

  The Aquabats at the Glass House, Jersey Boys at OCPAC, Imagine Peace Vigil in Irvine
  
  

  November 29, 2007

• Aussie and Hairy It

  March 28, 2002

• Red Scare in Little Saigon

  Le Vu's Viet Weekly newspaper endures OC's latest anti-communist witch-hunt
  

  August 16, 2007

• Were Muslim Student Union Free Speech Rights Infringed Upon?

  UC Irvine administrators drew widespread criticism for allowing--or not damning vehemently enough--the Muslim Student Union's May 5-21 wrath-a-thon "Israel: The Politics of Genocide." But fourth year psychology major Alaa Alomar accuses the same university officials of denying the same free speech rights to MSU as it does to other campus groups. Writing in the New University student newspaper, Alomar refers to the event not by its controversial title but as the annual "Palestine Awareness Week."

  June 4, 2009

• America, Fuck Yeah!

  April 13, 2006

• Criticize Larry Agran, Go to Jail

  September 22, 2005

• Bake-Off!

  October 23, 2003

• Watch What You Say

  September 26, 2002

• Nixon Bug

  March 14, 2002

• Art, Gays and the American Way

  February 28, 2002

• Bushwa

  February 21, 2002

• Letters

  January 31, 2002

• Springboard for Hitler

  September 13, 2001

• Censor Me All Night Long!

  September 6, 2001

• Fast Times at Foothill High

  August 23, 2001

• Cesar Arredondo

  September 30, 1999

• Everyones A Critic

  July 15, 1999

• The Year in Cyberspace

  January 7, 1999

• Shut Up, Again

  March 5, 1998

• Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

  Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Free Speech.Officials at the northern Orange County community college campus land at No. 6 "for calling police to arrest members of the pro-life group 'Survivor' claiming that they were creating a distu

  April 10, 2009

• Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

  July 16, 2009