Dear Media Bistro LA chicks:
Couldn't help but cringe as one of you snarked at the Los Angeles Times' decision to deem their year-end Opinion section special, "Polishing the Big Orange," an invitation for essayists and reporters (full disclosure: I'll be one, inshallah) to ponder about how to make Los Angeles a better town. Yes, to call LA the Big Orange sounds stupid, especially since the real Orange County really is big, but know your history, gals! Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the term was a