Subject: Harvard University

• Bad Medicine

  Fullerton is certainly full of something these days. Last month the Fullerton Planning Commission approved a resolution to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in their city. In fact, all the resolution woul accomplish is a violation of California law; that and a major buzz-kill to Jay's Paradise, the dispensary whose business license application inspired the last-minute "urgency ordinance". In 1996 California passed Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, which orders cities to set up a "plan

  September 12, 2006

• Leba-gone!

  USA Today has the story of Jade Jurdi's three-day ordeal to leave bombed-out Lebanon. The 21-year-old Harvard senior grew up in Orange County.

  July 17, 2006

• Rick Rubin: Music Biz Savior?

  The New York Times Magazine's Lynn Hirschberg ponders this crucial matter and concludes that Rubin, the Def Jam impresario/producer (Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Slayer, Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash and 17,000 others) who's now employed by Columbia Records, just may be the mensch to prevent this Titanic from sinking. Or is he merely rearranging the deck chairs on said vessel? I dunno; I can't think of anything right now except for Rubin's beard... But seriously, the feature's interesting, especially if

  September 4, 2007

• ¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzu

  To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was "effective the feast day of St. Melito," which happens to fall today. April Fools'! In this day of Google and instant knowledge, I must admit I was shocked that only two people called me on my bluff: Diego Renteria, an 18-yea

  April 1, 2008

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 19, 2002

• Credit Goes to No One

  April 1, 2004

• Boticellis Beetle

  April 15, 2004

• [CD Review] Bishop Allen, 'Grrr . . .' (Dead Oceans)

  March 12, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Meat, Mujeres and Mourning Edition

  January 22, 2009

• County Life

  People, places, politicos, lawmen, muckrakers, card sharps, & other assorted scalawags & neer-do-wells, plus tall tales & ghost stories.

  September 20, 2007

• Letters

  December 20, 2001

• Rage Against Irrelevancy

  Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

  April 26, 2007

• Your Effing Country

  Chili cheese fries eating competition

  February 15, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  November 30, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  September 14, 2006

• Doggone-Good Cult TV

  July 13, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  June 1, 2006

• Monster's Ball

  March 23, 2006

• Un-Made in Mexico

  February 2, 2006

• Irvine

  October 20, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 20, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 21, 2005

• Kabuki Dreams

  June 16, 2005

• The Disorder at the Border

  March 31, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 10, 2005

• Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering

  December 2, 2004

• Earth Daddy

  April 22, 2004

• Bring Us Your Torturers Yearning to Breathe Free

  March 25, 2004

• Wholly Without Merit

  September 4, 2003

• Dancing With Myself

  July 17, 2003

• Affirmative Action for Whites

  July 10, 2003

• Minimalist Journeys

  March 13, 2003

• War! Huh?

  May 30, 2002

• Legally Blonde

  April 18, 2002

• Citizen Cannabis

  February 7, 2002

• Weve Been Nuts for Decades

  August 2, 2001

• Western Philosophy

  March 29, 2001

• The Yanni Effect

  October 19, 2000

• The Truth About Beauty

  March 30, 2000

• 'I Am a Harvard Man'

  March 9, 2000

• Chapman Bites!

  September 2, 1999

• An Incomplete History of Gay & Lesbian OC

  August 19, 1999

• Give It the Old College Guide*

  September 10, 1998

• U-C-I Sweatshirts Banned on Campus

  A feature story by Colin Stack in today's edition of UC Irvine's student newspaper New University reveals that cotton sweatshirts with the familiar "U-C-I" capital letters across the chest have been effectively banned on campus since April 29.The ban has nothing to do with student self loathing--or being able to come up with the $40-$50 each in these times of economic recession and soaring tuition--but is instead aimed at the maker of the sweatshirts, the Atlanta-based Russell Athletics brand.

  May 11, 2009

• 'Angels & Demons' Is Holy Crap, But Not Entirely Un-Fun

  May 14, 2009

• La Voz de Aztlan Blames Swine Flu on--Of Course!--The Jews

  If you're a run-of-the-mill conspiracy-obsessed lefty, you're blaming the swine flu on corporate farming practices, operations that stuff livestock into dens of feces to create horrible humane condition ripe for all types of pathogens to mutate and infect humans. But if you're Hector Carreon, the former Buena Park city employee and fulltime pendejo who runs the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing La Voz de Aztlan, you blame the Jews.In a May 20 post writing under his pseudonym "Ernesto Cienfuego," Carreon

  May 27, 2009

• The Windmill Movie

  June 25, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 6/29

  Movie Madness Edition!Casablanca, 8 p.m.In my humble opinion, Casablanca the best movie ever made and it's playing at my favorite local theater, which makes tonight's showing it a perfect storm of awesomeness. Bay Theater - Seal Beach, 340 Main St., Seal Beach, CA; 562-431-9988The Windmill Movie, 7:10 and 9:50 p.m.Because, sadly, our lovely calendar editor Erin DeWitt's hosted screening of the film and Q and A session with the director was canceled last night at the last minute, we urge you to

  June 29, 2009

• Beers for Whatever Ales You

  Courtesy of Slate.com Now you see Washingtonpost.com's Dana Milbank, now you don't. A couple Washingtonpost.com comedi-hacks caught heck for their video that suggested the proper beverage to serve Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the recent White House beer summit would have been a bottle of Mad Bitch beer. The Post removed the satirical video from its site, although it can still be found all over the web. So it was probably a good idea Clockw

  August 5, 2009

• How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Is Connected to the Weather Underground Via the Black Panthers

  September 17, 2009