Subject: Libraries

• The Memory Hole Goes Green

  Having previously suppressed, ignored, and dishonestly redacted scientific reports that proved politically inconvenient, the Bush administration has taken the next logical step. The Environment News Service reports: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is closing its Headquarters Library to the public, as well as its own staff, effective October 1. The decision, formally announced Wednesday in a Federal Register notice, cites lack of funding for the closure. The Headquarters Library c

  September 26, 2006

• Snap Judgment: Asleep in Orange County

  I once did a photo series called "Asleep in Los Angeles," featuring locals asleep all over the place: on the Metro, by the public library, on cardboard, grass, abandoned couches...gosh darn, those Angelenos sure like to sleep. Anyway, here's what could be the first installment of the Orange County edition. I stumbled upon this dude resting by the crashing waves of Main Beach in Laguna. He's going to have a weird belly tan when he wakes up...maybe some sand down his crack. Let's not ponder this

  August 21, 2007

• OC Faux Pas of the Millennium!!!

  Setting: West Hollywood Book Fair, 'round noon, Librería Martínez booth. Protagonists: Me, Librería Martinez volunteer Jess Baudillo, and a gaggle of gals from the Mission VIejo Public Library. Scene: They had just invited me to speak at some author's festival they're proposing for next year. I, having a new book to hawk, graciously accepted. I told them I had a successful book signing a couple of weeks ago sponsored through Librería Martínez. Silence. "You've never heard of Librería M

  September 30, 2008

• Scheer Dick

  The rumbling you hear from the direction of Yorba Linda is not the sound from Jason Bay's home run last night finally hitting the turf. It's from Richard M. Nixon spinning in his grave! The HOR-ROR!!! This is because the grounds of the beloved presidential library and birthplace that surround his hallowed crypt will host an appearance by that liberal rabble-rouser Robert Scheer. Bob Scheer?!? WTF?!? Were Hugh Hewitt, Bruce Hershenson, Laura Ingraham, Henry the K and Trickie Dickie's White Ho

  October 2, 2008

• Dine and Dashboard

  March 29, 2001

• The Pragmatic Racist

  April 4, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 3, 2003

• Vicente Fox

  April 2, 2009

• Executive Director John Taylor Leaving Nixon Foundation for Clergy

  The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced today that John H. Taylor, the foundation's executive director since it opened in 1990 and before that Nixon's chief of staff, is leaving Sunday to become the full-time vicar (or priest in charge) at St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School in Rancho Santa Margarita. Taylor, who is shown here with his daughter Valerie and the former president in the 1980s, on Jan. 20 sent a formal letter of resignation to board chairman Kris

  February 10, 2009

• Setting the Record Straight at the Nixon Library

  Hopefully, this item on the looming depature of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's longtime executive director, John H. Taylor, makes it clear that he fronted a separate entity from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I say hopefully because that distinction was not clear in an earlier post that called the foundation the "funding arm" of the Nixon Library. That mistake brought my boss a polite-but-swift letter from Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

  February 10, 2009

• Eat, Pray, Love

  January 8, 2009

• Goodwill Mission

  April 17, 2008

• Wasted Youth

  April 10, 2008

• Shhhhhhhhhhh!

  February 7, 2002

• File Under Biblio

  Literary Orange

  April 19, 2007

• Jumping Down the Memory Hole

  October 12, 2006

• Bibliophilia

  May 18, 2006

• No Moore!

  December 9, 2004

• E-GATE

  February 12, 2004

• Archiving Nixon

  September 25, 2003

• Dear John

  August 7, 2003

• Throwing the Book at Us

  April 17, 2003

• Letters

  April 3, 2003

• Burning Sensation

  September 28, 2000

• Filtering Flip-Flop?

  October 5, 2000

• My Guess Is Definitely No

  May 18, 2000

• ANTI-RED BUTTONS

  January 6, 2000

• Mostly, Its about Sex, Mostly

  August 12, 1999

• X-Stopped

  December 17, 1998

• Shut Up, Again

  March 5, 1998

• WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

  John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive folks--if that's even possible--that I'm forgetting.After the partisan Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation that had been running the place turned over the keys to the National Archives--w

  June 10, 2009

• Ditch Day!

  June 25, 2009

• Cal State Fullerton Can't Afford to Buy One Copy of Newly Published Professor for Archives Anymore

  Lovell: Also hosts a good radio show on KUCI-FM...​It's a tradition of any university library to buy one copy of a book by a professor for its archives, but the budget for Cal State Fullerton's Pollak Library is so strained that they can no longer do this. This is what Jarret Lovell, professor of politics, administration and justice and longtime progressive activist has shared with the Weekly. Lovell just published Crimes of Dissent: Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Co

  August 9, 2009

• Man on the Moon

  August 13, 2009

• Gore Vidal and George McGovern Are the Stars, But Spirit of Ted Kennedy Also Fills Nixon Library

  Photo by Christopher Victorio George McGovern (left) listens to Gore Vidal's introduction at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.Legends of liberalism Gore Vidal and George McGovern were the honored guests at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda last night, but the spirit of Ted Kennedy also filled the replica of the White House's East Room.   Yes, you read that right: the RICHARD NIXON Presidential Library and Museum.

  August 27, 2009

• Silverado County Fair

  October 1, 2009

• Long Beach Comic Con

  October 1, 2009