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  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Nick Schou Scores "Orange Sunshine"

    ​Nick Schou sits one cubicle away from mine at OC Weekly. And yet, I interviewed him about his new book, Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World, from my home while he was on the road to his home in Long Beach. Complicating matter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    With Bombs Falling Around Loretta Sanchez, She Still Questions Afghanistan Adventure

    ​Speaking from Afghanistan, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) says she remains skeptical about President Barack Obama's decision to increase troop numbers there. Perhaps the bombs falling all around the House Armed Services Committee's senior female had something to do with that.

  • News

    December 10, 2009

    Distant Karma Catches Up With the Brotherhood's Brenice Lee Smith

    ​Speaking from Afghanistan, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) says she remains skeptical about President Barack Obama's decision to increase troop numbers there. Perhaps the bombs falling all around the House Armed Services Committee's senior female had something to do with that.

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Dana Rohrabacher Is Now A Sage? Hehehehe

    Broken clock is right more often than Dana​"Sending 30,000 more combat troops to Afghanistan will not make us any safer. Focusing a strategy around the central government in Kabul will not work, especially with a government as corrupt as the Karzai regime. Sending more American combat troop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Forty-Year-Old Fugitive Monk/'Hippie Mafia" Case Gets More Goofy

    Brenice Lee Smith and Friends circa 1972​Orange County Sheriff's Department inmate number 2537327, better known as Brenice "Brennie" Lee Smith--or Dorje to his family and fellow Buddhist devotees--has been behind bars for almost two months now thanks to a pair of nearly 40-year-old hash smuggling ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2009

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

    Brenice Lee Smith and Friends circa 1972​Orange County Sheriff's Department inmate number 2537327, better known as Brenice "Brennie" Lee Smith--or Dorje to his family and fellow Buddhist devotees--has been behind bars for almost two months now thanks to a pair of nearly 40-year-old hash smuggling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Daddy Rohrabacher Says He Knows Best In Afghanistan, Again

    Dana Rohrabacher, our Twitter-loving, immigrant-bashing, surfer-dude congressman published an op-ed yesterday in the Washington Times. It's about, of course, his favorite subject: Afghanistan -- specifically, the extent to which he knows more about Afghanistan than anyone else. To be sure, Rohrabach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Want to Get Away, Really Get Away? Come to Israel

        According to Travel Mole, "the online community for the travel and tourism industry," visiting Israel is at an all-time high amid the bombs raining down courtesy of the Hamas theme park: Despite the Strife, Tourism in Israel is at an all Time High Perhaps it's the ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2008

    Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened

        According to Travel Mole, "the online community for the travel and tourism industry," visiting Israel is at an all-time high amid the bombs raining down courtesy of the Hamas theme park: Despite the Strife, Tourism in Israel is at an all Time High Perhaps it's the ... More >>

  • News

    October 2, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] Chris Cox Says He's a Tough Wall Street Regulator, SEC Record Proves Otherwise

        According to Travel Mole, "the online community for the travel and tourism industry," visiting Israel is at an all-time high amid the bombs raining down courtesy of the Hamas theme park: Despite the Strife, Tourism in Israel is at an all Time High Perhaps it's the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    None of His Bisno-iss

    Only in SanTana can an effort to impose term limits on Papi Pulido transform into a ballot measure to extend term limits for councilmembers. But that's exactly what happened with Measure D, which SanTana voters will decide on February 5 and is one of the most laughable pieces of crap to grace Orange ... More >>

  • Music

    July 5, 2007

    Aural Reports

    More Bang for Your Bukowski: MC/Producer Sol-T refreshes old-school hip-hop

  • Film

    December 21, 2006

    New Reviews

    Black Christmas; Kabul Express; Night at the Museum; We Are Marshall

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2006

    Welcome Back Taliban!

    You'd better sit down. Today Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suggested that the best way to deal with the increasing Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan ... is to reintegrate the group into the Afghani government. From the AP via the International Herald-Tribune: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2006

    3 out of 4

    Over at Rising Hegemon, Attaturk notices a slight variation in the covers on this week's Newsweek. See if you can spot the difference. Yep. That's right. The editors of the international editions of Newsweek simply don't understand the tremendous importance of Annie Leibovitz reminiscing about he ... More >>

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    'I've Never Been to America. America Came to Me'

    Ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg recalls his three-year journey through Americas war on terror

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Un-Made in Mexico

    Sex, drugs and the American flag: The true tale of an Orange County family

  • Food

    June 16, 2005

    The Real Afghani

    Dealing with Afghan realities at Amazing Kabob House

  • Columns

    November 20, 2003

    Good News!

    Jim Washburn helps the president share the joy in Iraq

  • Features

    September 12, 2002

    Rogue Statesman

    Congressman Dana Rohrabachers absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11

  • Film

    March 28, 2002

    Dazed and Amused

    Gods sixth annual Calleys

  • News

    March 14, 2002

    World Wars III, IV and V

    Gods sixth annual Calleys

  • Columns

    January 17, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Gods sixth annual Calleys

  • Columns

    October 4, 2001

    War!!!

    But first a quick workout

  • Film

    September 27, 2001

    Not a Movie

    Watching the unwatchable

  • Features

    September 27, 2001

    Laguna Hills

    Nice offramps

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