Axes continue to fall at the Los Angeles Times, a still-great paper but one that's looking more and more like a mash-up of USA Today and The Orange County Register. The resignation of editor Dean Baquet stole the thunder from new publisher David Hiller's announcement earlier this week that he knows how to save the Times: get more Mexican readers.
Except Hiller doesn't call them Mexican, or even the PC term Latino. He calls them Hispanic. Strike uno.
But Hiller insists Hispanics are his Hail Ma
Dear Peoples Republic of Blotter Types:
It makes us chortle that so many folks have their Fruit of the Looms in a bunch over the National Anthem being sung in Spanish. Heck, the only thing we remember from 1 1/2 years of California public high school Spanish nearly 30 years ago was the Pledge of Allegiance en espanol. The may-yammo-es: gone. The lame salutations: gone. The curse words: gone. But being able to say the Pledge -- the bajo dios version even -- are permanently burned into the memory
Because it is THE place to read shit like this...
. . . [George W. Bush] lied when he said: "Massive deportation of the people
here is unrealistic--it's just not going to work."
Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take.
If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million
Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German
society, it couldn't possibly take more than eight years to deport 12
million illegal aliens, many of
Students of history can only expect so much from Images of America, those slender books of historical photos published by Arcadia Publishing. Most of the people who compile the pictures in this book are well-meaning antiquarians (of the philosophical and age variety), and the people who purchase such tracts are usually of the same ilk. They're not expecting thorough analysis or dredging up the dirty bits of our past; they want photos of parades!
This art form is particularly onerous in Orange C
I devote a couple of pages of my Orange County: A Personal History (book signing Sept. 18 at the Yost!) to the Huntington Beach-based California Coalition for Immigration Reform, the single group most responsible for fanning the anti-Mexican flames in the United States over the past 15 years. One crucial moment I discuss is CCIR head Barbara Coe's self-professed epiphany regarding the illegal-alien menace, as quoted in Daniel Sheehy's 2006 book Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Bat
I know a lot of you foodies out there like to concentrate on grub, like to pretend that the food on your table appears deux ex machina with no political back story behind it, and prefer not to wade into the real world. I'm one of those: that's why I review restaurants, as a respite from the insanity of my regular job as an investigative reporter. Sometimes, though, the two worlds collide, and this is one of them.Barbara Coe is the head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, an organ
