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Why Do Mexican Men Love Their Mothers So Much?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why can't Americans learn Spanish?

Medieval Animal Rescue Charity Faire

OC Fairgrounds

Nguyen Cao Ky, Former President of South Vietnam, Passes Away

From Bolsavik.com​Word has come from Malaysia that Nguyen Cao Ky, the former president of South Vietnam who spent years in Orange County after the Vietnam War, has passed away.The story first appeared in the English-language media via  Bolsavik, the English-language blog of Nguoi Viet editor ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

From Bolsavik.com​Word has come from Malaysia that Nguyen Cao Ky, the former president of South Vietnam who spent years in Orange County after the Vietnam War, has passed away.The story first appeared in the English-language media via  Bolsavik, the English-language blog of Nguoi Viet editor ... More >>

Petition Filed with US Patent Office to Cancel "Urban Homestead" Trademark Held by Dingbat Dervaes Family

The Ma and Pa Kettle of the legal world?​Remember that humongous controversy earlier this year when a weirdo Pasadena family not only successfully got a trademark for the term "urban homesteading" (used in American English for decades), but began sending threatening legal letters to entities who u ... More >>

Five (Largely Inaccurate) Oxford English Dictionary Entries for Mexican Foods

​Last week, I reported on how the Oxford English Dictionary had just included "banh mi" into its august publication, a wonderful, surprising development. Also in the mix was "taquito," and that entry just pissed me off. Oh, I was happy that rolled, fried tacos finally received their due--but ... More >>

Oxford English Dictionary Adds 'Banh Mi' to Dictionary

​Ah, the august Oxford English Dictionary (OED), grammatical gatekeeper to all that is proper and just in the world of the English language. The great thing about the tongue of Shakespeare, of course, is how it absorbs foreign words as they inextricably become part of the Empire--and, just this we ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Man Who Kicked Officer in Groin Pleads Guilty Comment by SSHOE: Give me a break, is this how this old man shows his thanks for the US saving his people from those commie VC 40 years ago. How about showing some gratitude and not suing the cops when YOU are the one who punched and kicked ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Tran: 'Uphill' Chance to Defeat Rep. SanchezComment by UGLYINLA: Tran...its over...give it up. Its not your fault. After years of voter apathy, the 47th has been turned into a barrio. A simple stroll down to Santa Ana is all one needs to see to understand what has manifested over t ... More >>

Becky Shaw

South Coast Repertory

Anti-Mexican, Anti-Italian Ushers at Angels Stadium?

View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video. Anti-Mexican racism at Angels Stadium of Anaheim isn't anything new, especially given how neo-Nazis troll the stadium's parking lots and pass out white-power music compilations after your Halos play. But actual ushers spouting off, with ... More >>

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Rage Guitarist Joining Disney Strike ActivitiesComment by jeff: I don't feel sorry for these losers. eventually they won't have jobs. ​disney can easily replace a few thousand mexicans who can barely speak english with more mexicans who can barely speak english.comment by ladderr: get ... More >>

Texting, Tweeting and Facebooking Teens Are Stupid Again!

​Two weeks after a study partly funded by the British Academy concluded phone texting leads to more literate youths, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, claims messaging via cellphones is contributing to a generation of college students who can't write.Their evidence: the rising failure ... More >>

A Rainbow of Patriots/Crazies Greet Nancy Pelosi in Irvine

Chris Victorio​America is diverse! Yes it's true. For proof, we present a list, with commentary, of the various demographics we encountered at Friday night's catch-all protest of Nancy Pelosi's arrival at the Irvine Hilton for a Democratic Party of OC event:

Barbara Coe Tells Followers to Stay Away from Ethnic Restaurants

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 ... More >>

Will the Real Barbara Coe Please Stand Up?

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 cr ... More >>

In San Juan Capistrano's Schools, White Kids Are Painted Into One Corner, Latino Kids Into Another

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 cr ... More >>

Bowdlerizing Santa Ana's Past (Canto CXVIII)

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 suc ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Paperback Edition

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 suc ... More >>

On the Virg

Dido & Aeneas

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Is It Racist to Call a Mexican Working at a Coffee Shop a 'Beaner'?

Dido & Aeneas

!Ask a Mexican!

'I bet they speak English during recess'

So I Married a Terrorist . . .

Saraah Olsons strange trip through the U.S. war on terror

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Ribbed No More

Hey, You!

Three Mayans and a Little Lady

Espanol Sung Here

WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Crossing over: whos doing it, whos not

The Los Angeles Times is Estupido

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 ... More >>

Why Do We Love WorldNetDaily?

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 ... More >>

O Say, Can U-C: The Retort

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 Al ... More >>

The Good, the Sorta Bad and the Gott-damn Youse Ugly

Handicapping the 06 Newport Beach Film Festival

Expanded for the Web!

Johnny Can't Write

Handicapping the 06 Newport Beach Film Festival

Expanded for the Web!

Guerrilla in the Midst

The man behind the human-rights rhetoric