Subject: FEMA

• Earthquake weather or whatever...

  Yesterday, as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was submitting to a public humiliation ritual before a Senate committee, his only punishment for letting New Orleans drown (in other countries, such incompetence would result in dismissal from office and permanent disgrace, but in the land of W, Chertoff will probably end up with a medal), and as word came from New Orleans that yet another body had been found in a flood-damaged house, the Department of Homeland Security's plan for dealin

  February 16, 2006

• Cheeseburgers and Patsies in the White House

  If it wasn't for the cheeseburgers, I might have found this morning's resignation of White House Chief of Staff Andy Card touching. Certainly the reporters– and I use that word loosely– on the various cable news stations did, but then they were just following the White House's lead and ignoring the cheeseburgers. The mood the White House was going for was Hallmark-card maudlin, as the Associated Press' description of event makes clear: Gripping the podium, Card said in his farewell:

  March 28, 2006

• Heckuva job, FEMA

  Most reports are characterizing the federal response to the California fires as respectable --- or at least not a Katrina-style fuck up. So it's too bad FEMA had to go and embarrass itself by having fake reporters lob softball questions at a press conference earlier this week. The agency apologized for the gaffe Friday, and on the bright side, none of the fake reporters are believed to be former gay male escorts.

  October 26, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: More Street dirt

  More Street dirt: In his pre-treasurer-tax collector days, Chriss Street allegedly billed (and double-billed!) a bankrupt trust "for thousands of dollars in expenses, including a $3,584 laptop computer and $1,200 in office supplies," reports Ronald Campbell at the Register. The records collected by The End of the Road Trust show that Street charged thousands more for trips, gourmet meals and a personal trainer. The trust is suing Street for $7 million. Eagle eye Amormino: Orange County sheriff'

  November 13, 2007

• The City That Bush Forgot

  September 15, 2005

• Privatize This!

  Ever wonder where your local tax dollars go?

  July 6, 2006

• The Border Patrol Gets Pimped Out On Reality T.V.

  If you didn't think reality television could get any more crass than the grating weekly doses of collagen-injected OC busybodies, guess again. ABC is scheduled to air its new border patrol  reality T.V. show during the same time slot as our desperate little OC housewives beginning in January. The big, bad show, brimming with border-defending men and women "working the front lines" is titled (fittingly, for a recruitment ad) "Homeland Security USA." The show's producers were given "unprecede

  December 5, 2008

• Orange County Register Readers Meet Their Nuttier Competition

  *UPDATEDIt appears Orange County Register readers watch the Channel 4 news. Or, at least, some of the comments left on KNBC's online version of a breaking story about a man committing suicide this morning on the altar of Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove read as if they could have been lifted from ocregister.com. From FEMA's in charge: "You better be scared. Anyone not purchasing a firearm for personal protection is kidding themselves to the dire situation that America WILL be faced with. We hav

  February 18, 2009

• House of Pain: Arther Masaoka's Fight to Stop the City of Tustin From Bulldozing His Home

  March 20, 2008

• Not Too Late for a War Crimes Tribunal

  February 7, 2002

• Wash, Rinse, and Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!

  September 15, 2005

• Department of Homeland Stupidity

  May 11, 2006

• Dem Bones

  May 4, 2006

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 13, 2005

• Our Vagetarian in Washington

  October 6, 2005

• a Clockwork Orange

  September 22, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  September 15, 2005

• Too Much Dick Spoils the Gumbo

  September 8, 2005

• Thank God for That Tax Cut!

  September 8, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  September 8, 2005

• Dial M for Mold!

  June 16, 2005

• Diary of A Mad Year

  2004 regurgitated

  December 30, 2004

• Diary of A Mad County

  November 25, 2004

• Its Snot Unusual

  Im George W. Bush, and I Approve This Destruction

  September 2, 2004

• Hosed

  November 6, 2003

• Mondo Washington

  March 21, 2002

• Prescription for Disaster

  February 4, 1999

• 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

• Coming Sooner or Later: When Will the City Fix the Bixby Park Bandshell?

  On February 19, 2005, after a heavy rainstorm, a massive tree fell on the historic, art deco-era bandshell in Long Beach's Bixby Park, the pride of the city's Alamitos Beach neighborhood since 1927, and more recently, a home to the homeless and weekly pottery classes. The tree crushed the building, and crushed it has remained ever since. The city promptly chopped the tree up for firewood and placed a lovely chain link fence around the demolished building. Taking a cue from the folks at the Pik

  July 6, 2007

• Orly Taitz Bombards Media; Media Says 'Get a Life'

  ​First, a copy-paste: Please contact USA today and demand that they provide the readers with info about January 26 trial. If they refuse, report them to FCC, as defrauding the public in connection to electionsThat's right, folks: On her blog, Dr. Orly Taitz says that USA Today would be committing a crime ignoring her. It's part of Taitz's new campaign to annoy random reporters across the country.

  October 27, 2009

• Dave Eggers to be Honored in Anaheim for Sensitivity to Muslims

  By David Shankbone/Wikipedia CommonsDave Eggers at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival.​A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author Dave Eggers will be presented the 2009 "Courage in Media" award at the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' 13th annual banquet Saturday at the Anaheim Hilton.Anaheim-based CAIR-LA is honoring the Pulitzer Prize nominee for his latest novel Zeitoun, which is about a Muslim American man who volunteers to help rescue victims

  November 4, 2009