What is it about Orange County that creates fools who make ridiculous comparisons of their causes to the suffering Jews experienced during the Holocaust? A couple of years ago, it was the Minuteman mexicana, Lupe Moreno, rambling about how Mexican immigrants were the new Nazis, while American whites were the Jews. "I would wonder how was it possible that a whole nation of people,
millions and millions, would let something as evil as the Holocaust
happen?" Moreno wrote in 2003. "How could they be
What an exciting couple of days it's been for members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform! They held a rally this past Saturday at their little slice of Nuremburg, the Garden Grove Women's Club, in which a Who's Who of Know Nothings was scheduled to rally geriatrics against amnesty for illegals: Jeff Schwilk of the San Diego Minutemen (a group so goofy they despise Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist), CCIR head witch Barbara Coe, "Chicana" activist Lupe Moreno, Save Our State
This ain't News of the Weird: KFI-AM 640 megamouths John & Ken will hold a mass tax revolt rally outside Slidebar Cafe in Fullerton this Saturday afternoon. Which begs the question: which of the Slidebar's owners holds the same populist-nativist politics as the two? The Lit guy who co-owns the bar, whose music is rancid but whose food at his place is surprisingly swell? Downtown Fullerton wizard Sean Francis, who's another owner? Both? Neither? Or do each hold some appreciation of The John a
Fourth Street, SanTana: mid 1950s. What was so great about these segregated days?
Orange County is a place where booster myths have
masqueraded as fact and history since the days of Serra, but an article in this
month's Orange Coast by former Los Angeles Times writer Agustín Gurza
on SanTana and its Artists Village takes the orange crate label. It starts with the title ("The Resurrection
of Santa Ana," implying the county seat was once dead, which should come as a
surprise to all
A story that appeared in the OC Weekly a few weeks ago called "On the Borderline" has caused quite a stir in the past week in the blogosphere, resulting in several local blog contributors calling for the removal of Santa Ana Library Board member Lupe Moreno.
According to the bloggers, who cited my article as a source, Moreno referred to illegal aliens as—gasp!—"subhuman, pod people." How could Moreno make such a ghastly comment, you ask? Well, she didn't. I did.
Let's scrutinize the pas
