John Kerry

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 >>

Ben Affleck and Loretta Sanchez Need to Get a Room After House Committee Clash Over Congo

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) and actor/director/producer/Jimmy Kimmel fuck buddy Ben Affleck (D-Massachusetts) reportedly had a little tussle at a House Armed Services Committee hearing this week.The heart of the matter that split the pair was not the proper use of undocumented fol ... More >>

Orange County Register's Freedom Overlords Sell 8 TV Stations to Conservative Concern

Freedom Communications, the Irvine-based media company whose flagship newspaper is the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, has completed the sale of its eight television stations to the company that famously ordered its ABC affiliates not to show an April 30, 2004, Nightline tribute to American sol ... More >>

Chatting With Bill Maher About Rick Warren And Orly Taitz

From Religulous: Bill Maher on the left, Jesus on the right.​Comedian, talk show host and atheist evangelical Bill Maher will perform at the Grove of Anaheim on Sunday, Sept. 13. We got a chance to chat with him on the phone last week, mainly to ask him for his thoughts on all things Orange County ... More >>

Mackerel Flats' Folks Leaning Toward Obama? Who Knew?

Around 11 this morning, KPCC 89.3 FM's AirTalk show presented a call-in segment called "I Didn't Know My Neighbor Was Voting For (Fill In The Blank)!" Host Larry Mantle wanted to know whether anyone's neighbors put political signs on their front lawns that surprised the listener. First caller Garr ... More >>

Don't Tase Me, Bro!

Maybe this belongs in a Because You’re Ugly post, you tell me. Be sure to get your very own “Don’t Tase Me, Bro!” t-shirt in time for the “Ask Mitt Anything” forum at Chapman University this Sunday. The phrase, “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” was cried out by a University of Florida studen ... More >>

We'll Always Have Paris . . .

. . . Well, this Thursday and Saturday at UCI, anyway

A Maiden, a Dreamer, and a Crime

From the Associated Press: Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio's most populous county. Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathlee ... More >>

Cocaine Airways

A former CIA pilot says secret flights to El Toro could explain a Marine officers suicide

We Forget

Five years after 9/11, Cornel Bonca finds your memory wandering around Vegas

Dem Bones

Web Exclusive! Let's Help the Democrats Find Their Spines

A Most Taxing Situation

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration P.O. Box 589 Ben Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044-0589 Dear TIGfTA: How goes the number crunching, amigo. Say, just wanted to drop you a line about something I read recently about you folks at the IRS coming down hard on the former Rector Geor ... More >>

Capitol Punishment

How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

Shoot a Republican: The Sequel

Weekly extends offer to pump partisan lead

Letters

So Now What?

No one said freedom was easy

O, America . . .

Reflections on Election Day, 2004

Dem Hopes

The profound enjoyment of punching ourselves in the face

Eight Days

Letters

The Zombie Shuffle

Because presidentins such hard work, Bush needs a one-way ticket to Crawford

Cleveland Rocked

Vote for Change and Vote Often

Burning Bush: The Issue

A year in Dubya-dumping by his conservative critics . . . and Howard Stern

59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

Gray Lady Marmalade

Good times, bad times, New York Times

Weekly Index

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

Swift Bloat

Vets for Truth change tactics

Letters

Diary of a Mad County

We Shoot Republicans!

Diary of a Mad County

Letters

The Church of Bush

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president

I Am a Gay!

All the world loves a Kerry-lover

Eight Days

Diary of a Mad County

Poor Pitiful Pearl

And the boy who felt me up at the Canyon Inn!

Eight Days

Eight Days

Diary of a Mad County

Abu Huh?

The mean bouncer, the mad waitress and the bad valet

Darn It, There are Still Some Single Gay People

And the odd case of bush vs. Bush

American Bigmouth

The right, and even some on the left, would love to shut up Michael Moore. But he aint budging

Eat the Press 1

Let Us Digest the News for You

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Ive never voted for a winner for president. And I wont now

OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

Lost Year

2002 was the year that sucked the chrome off the future

Patience, George