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Fox Slams Amazing Race on CBS For Pro-Communist Tributes During Vietnam Stop

One of the token liberals on Fox News is blasting CBS for airing an Amazing Race broadcast this week that required contestants visiting Vietnam to watch a pro-communist musical show, recite a pro-communist poem and then gather at an anti-American military site in Hanoi.Bob Beckel--a cantankerous, lo ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Vicente Fernandez Songs of All Time, Nos. 10-1

See also*The 20 Greatest Vicente Fernandez Songs of All Time, Nos. 20-11And the list continues! Here will be all the obvious ones: "El Rey," "Volver, Volver," all the songs that turn usually taciturn Mexican men into wusses deserving of being grilled on Leykis 101. Enjoy, and NOW you can start hatin ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Says He Will "Interrogate" Hillary Clinton Today On Benghazi

Having recently declared his appreciative awe of Hillary Clinton and her "20 years of [making] good calls," Dana Rohrabacher used Twitter last night to assure his rightwing fan base that he is readying himself to engage in rhetorical combat with the secretary of state during congressional testimony ... More >>

Happiness is a Warm Book About Guns: Intellectual Self-Defense

I began writing this on Friday, hours after NRA loon-in-chief Wayne LaPierre offered his predictably over-the-top defense of gun nuts, pimps and apologists for the weapons industry. Hard to imagine the cognitive dissonance required of somebody who can stick to his, yes, guns in the face of ... More >>

'We Will Live to Fight Again'

Election Day dispatches from around the county

Why Do Mexicans Boycott Columbus Day?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do white people like to brag about where they travel?

Lady Gaga Finally Has Something in Common With Newt Gingrich and it is in Orange County!

​[UPDATED: At conclusion of the article.]Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Mike Schroeder, his decades old travel companion and buddy, adamantly disagree on which 2012 Republican candidate would make the best U.S. president. Rohrabacher despises Newt Gingrich and is backing Mitt Romney. Schroeder d ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Snuggles Glenn Beck For Historical Inaccuracies

Rohrabacher: He wears a pearl necklace.​Ten hours after New Year's Eve, the 110-proof booze must have still have been flowing at the Costa Mesa rental abode of Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's senior career politician.On Sunday at about 11 a.m., Rohrabacher wrote a Twitter post that shamelessly s ... More >>

Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels If I Smoke Pot?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why don't more Mexis appear on television news talk shows?

Bravo Damns The Real Housewives of the Bible

​Bravo is accusing The Real Housewives of the Bible of breaking No. VIII of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not steal.  First, let's back up a bit. Yes, The Real Housewives of the Bible is a thing, a two-part, straight-to-DVD series that uses stories from the ancient Christian text to help w ... More >>

In Fred Karger's Presidential Run, GOP Stands for Gay Old Party

The OC resident and onetime Republican hatchet man hopes his quixotic campaign can push his party to become more gay-friendly

Rep. John Campbell: USA Close To 'Collapse'

Campbell pulling a Nostradamus​Despite $38 billion in federal budget cuts last night, Orange County Congressman John Campbell told Fox News on Saturday morning that the United States soon faces a financial doomsday."Really big changes are needed" to future federal government spending habits o ... More >>

Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System

​Don't know about you, but we got pretty attached to the Captcha commenting system. What started out as merely a utilitarian tool to make you prove that you weren't some bot trying to sell us UGG boots actually kind of grew on us.But now, Captcha--otherwise known as the Wavy Band Name Generator (" ... More >>

Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System

​Don't know about you, but we got pretty attached to the Captcha commenting system. What started out as merely a utilitarian tool to make you prove that you weren't some bot trying to sell us UGG boots actually kind of grew on us.But now, Captcha--otherwise known as the Wavy Band Name Generator (" ... More >>

Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System

​Don't know about you, but we got pretty attached to the Captcha commenting system.  What started out as merely a utilitarian tool to make you prove that you aren't some bot trying to sell us UGG boots actually kind of grew on us.But now, Captcha--otherwise known as the Wavy Band Name Generat ... More >>

Sarah Palin Excites Orange County Republicans For Van Tran

Palin visited OC on Saturday​Orange County has an endless supply of ironies.Friday, ex-President Bill Clinton held a pep rally for Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in Santa Ana.Yesterday, Sarah Palin--a Fox News contributor and likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate--participated in ... More >>

Leslie Van Houten Denied Parole for 19th Time

​Parole was denied for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten for the 19th time.Van Houten, who is behind bars at the California Institution for Women at Frontera, was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the August 1969 slayings of wealthy grocers Leno and Rosemary La Bianca.A model prisone ... More >>

Shocker: OC GOPer Slams Obama on . . . Fox!

​"It's a disaster . . . He's the anti-Lincoln . . . This thin-skinned president."--Orange County Republican celebrity Hugh Hewitt happily commenting tonight on Hannity's Fox News show about President Barack Obama's decision today to sack outspoken General Stanley McChrystal. Because Hewitt would n ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

[Summer Guide] Flicks to help you enjoy the great indoors

The Daily Show Fake News Report on Confucius Classroom Apparently Airs Tonight

​Jay Chen, a member of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education, informs on his Facebook page that The Daily Show With Jon Stewart segment on a district school's controversial Confucius Classroom airs tonight."My Daily Show interview with Aasif re: our Chinese Class is sch ... More >>

Barbara Coe Now Against Bill O'Reilly Because He's Not a Birther

O'Reilly: Now on Coe's shit list, which makes him somewhat more tolerable...​In the twisted, irrational world of the Know Nothings, egos and out-and-out weirdness will create foolish, unwarranted rivalries that inevitably lead to the group's downfall. Here in Orange County, of course, you have Min ... More >>

John Campbell Tries To Honor UCI Volleyball But Gets Spiked

​Poor John Campbell (R-Real Housewives). He tried to do a nice thing for his constituents -- which we deserve, given that he refuses to earmark federal dollars for local projects -- but his gesture turned into a political football. Ok, a political volleyball.Fox News's Chad Pergram has written up ... More >>

White Supremacist OC Nazi Gets His Wish!

Will Billy Joe's Suck Up to Prison Gang Work?​In what may have been acclaimed homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh's easiest conviction, a jury this afternoon found Billy Joe Johnson--the notorious, wide-eyed and lisping Costa Mesa white supremacist--guilty in the 2002 conspiracy to execute a fello ... More >>

In Light of Braff: Five Bizarre Internet Hoaxes

Flickr user Thor Arvid​The world thought  Scrubs actor Zach Braff was dead yesterday for a few hours--suicide, they said. Turns out, it was just a Scrubs fan that had created a faker CNN page in 2007 that somehow resurfaced. In an age where someone's Wikipedia page is edited spookily quick to ... More >>

Al Qaeda's Goat Boy: Back from the Dead and as Annoying as Ever

Goat Boy: I'm Ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack!​ Apparently, your teabagging grandma isn't the only person who thinks the election of Barack Obama spells doom for America. In celebration of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, Al Qaeda has just released a video called "The West and the Dark Tunnel." In the video, ... More >>

Piercing Through the Bill O'Reilly-Keith Olbermann Fued

​Perhaps the blood feud between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann can be resolved with a simple game of darts.That's what an Israel-based graphic arts website seems to believe with the portraits it has bound for the cable TV blabbermouths who go head-to-head--and toe-to-toe--on Fox News and MSNBC ... More >>

All Sides Love Telling Illin' Cali to Pound Sand

Finally, an issue has come along that has united people of all political stripes all over the country: the U.S. Government's refusal to bail out California (at least for now). Most bloggers used today's Washington Post story as a jumping-off point to analyze the development. While they were all over ... More >>

Steve Carell's 'Get Smart' Redux Is a Rare Device: A TV Remake for the Big Screen That Works

Avalon Bar Owner Mike Conley Found Dead

The Weekly has received reports and the Chicago Tribune has confirmed that Avalon Bar owner Mike Conley was found dead early Thursday in a hotel parking lot in Leyden Township, Illinois. From the Tribune: Michael Conley, of Costa Mesa, Calif., was found unresponsive at 5:40 a.m. by a person stayi ... More >>

Comic-Con 2007: Barking Mad

Dear Satan, what the hell happened to Clive Barker? I interviewed him a few years ago for our late sister-paper New Times LA, and found him charming, lucid, smart, fan-friendly -- everything you'd hope he would be. Today, I don't know what to make of him. His croaky voice and odd manner initially ... More >>

Letters

'Bosomy? Not only is that irrelevant, it sails dangerously close to the ingrained misogyny of tabloid coveragesomething I would have thought your paper would want to avoid.'

San Diego: Screw Trestles

San Diego has no business in San Diego County. At least, that's what their City Council seems to think. In our Best "Best of OC" Issue yet, Dave Wielenga eloquently described one of the major problems with the Save Trestles campaign: apathy. Surfers and the surf industry pay lip service to their be ... More >>

Uhmerican Idiot

Mike Judges hillbilly apocalypse

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 ... More >>

Spinning Out of Control

How Mark LeVine survived The OReilly Factor

Terror-Fied

The War on Terror begins at home. My home.

Diary of a Mad County

The presidents conservative critics

Cash for Chaos

Mark Levines spring break in Falluja

Joyful Noises

Pearl Jam, Springsteen and R.E.M. open their vaults

You Ain't Inventing Jack

Fullerton College looks back at sex, sex and the Old West

She Saved the World a Lot

Buffy the vampire slayer and revolutionary

The Wars Most Unusual Casualty

Registers relationship with Fox News anchor dead in fight over Iraqi war coverage

Daddy Warbucks

Slick Talk

War College

67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

Danas Follies

Strangers With Cande

How sweet rave promoters B3Cande are

Same Time, Last Year

Three Strikes foes behind count in Sacramento