Subject: Martin Wisckol

• Down Goes Daucher

  As of half-past seven Monday night, Lou Correa has over 50% of the vote, beating opponent Lynn Daucher by 1,302 votes and winning California's 34th Senate seat. He collected more votes than opponents Daucher and Otto Bade combined, ending speculation that Bade's last-minute write-in campaign is what cost Daucher the election. Can we please stop calling him Otto the Spoiler now? This is an unpleasant turn of events for Daucher, who on Election Night was claiming victory. At the Republican's ill-

  November 20, 2006

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Register UCI Panic!

  OC Gym Crook Arrested in LA: Police arrested Ronald James Navarrette Jr. of Mission Viejo Friday in El Segundo for breaking into men's lockers at the Spectrum Athletic Club not far from LAX. Gym employees had been on the lookout for the 45-year-old crook they knew from surveillance video taken at other incidents. His dark glasses and black beanie disguise (to cover his bald spot) apparently didn't fool anyone this time. Police say Navarrette, already on parole for burglary, stole wallets from l

  September 16, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: That Sneaky Chuck DeVore

  Doctor No: The public hospital crisis has placed nearly two dozen private hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties “in dire financial straits and in danger of bankruptcy or closure,” according to a depressing report in today’s Times. Reporters Daniel Costello and Susannah Rosenblatt found that the local healthcare system is so overburdened that “even a few other hospitals close or reduce costly critical-care services, it could mean longer ambulance rides to hospitals, additional del

  September 23, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Ass Slapping Fun!

  Worm Attack in Dana Point? TMZ reports that Orange County police are investigating former Los Angeles Laker/Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman for allegedly committing a “crime” inside the Hennessy's Tavern near PCH in Dana Point. The celebrity website says Rodman was accused of slapping a female customer's ass so hard it left a “major mark.” No word on what part of his anatomy did the slapping. Jim Amormino, sheriff's spokesman, said dicks in his department's “sex crimes unit” are on

  September 24, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Darth Vader Chases Janet Nguyen

  October 11, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Meteor Showers Tonight!

  LA vs. OC: The Southern California airport wars continue this morning in a Daily Breeze article detailing a Los Angeles official’s demand that Orange County residents pay for increasing the burden on LAX. “Share the burden or cough up the cash,” is how reporter Art Marroquin summarized the opinion of LA airport commissioner Walter Zifkin. He wants OC folks to pay extra when they use LAX. Len Kranser, part of a massive alliance that successfully prevented the construction of an internation

  October 20, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Debbie Carona wants out

  Debbie Carona wants out: On Halloween day, the Weekly sat in a crowded Santa Ana courtroom and watched the odd trio of sheriff, wife and mistress twitching as they sat cuffed and in uncomfortably close quarters. Debbie Carona sat a lawyer away from her hubby and did not so much as look at him the entire time, though she seemed obsessed with the room's double doors. That chick wanted out and by George, she's working on it. Peggy Lowe at the Register reports that Mrs. Carona has asked that prosec

  November 27, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: More war money for Costa Mesa

  Janet Nguyen to pay up: OC's newest supervisor recently admitted to collecting funds above the legal limit in the last election and trying to avoid disclosing them. Nguyen has agreed to pay $5,000 to settle state and county investigations into a legal-defense fun she improperly set up (and made $12,500 in donations with) -- improper because such funds aren't allowed for county candidates, reports Martin Wisckol at the Reg. It's raining war cash: Ceradyne Inc., which manufactures ceramic body a

  December 4, 2007

• Wiley Drake: Reverend or Ayatollah?

  "It's not my hit list; It's God's hit list."

  February 16, 2008

• Register Bootlicker Returns for Special Easter Sermon!

  Holding a gun with both hands sent sensations racing down his spine to a semi-firm point between his legs. Gordon Dillow wanted to moan—purr, really—like he did in the privacy of his home. But he’d been warned twice before about fondling weapons inside Orange County Register headquarters. There was also the problem of his co-workers: in his mind, a bunch of unapologetic liberals, women, homosexuals, Jews and "gooks."** He knew they didn’t sympathize with the depths of his love for men in

  March 23, 2008

• Dina Nguyen Commits Godwin's Law!

  Years ago, through the wonders of the Rotten.com Library, I learned Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies. Per Rotten.com: Conversely, you can attack an opponent simply by declaring his position to be consistent with Hitler's. This tactic has long been a fixture of the Usenet newsgroups, which eventually prompted Godwin to formulate his famous Law of Nazi Analogies: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. Whenever one of our

  April 14, 2008

• Tony Rackauckas Hunting Commies in Little Saigon?

  The Weekly never passes up on an opportunity to make fun of our favorite local lawman—favorite, now that Sheriff Mike Carona's out of the picture, that is—Tony Rackauckas. So when we saw this item on the fiesty and irreverent Bolsavik blog by ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor Hao-Nhien Vu, we couldn't resist posting it here. (Actually Bolsavik got the item from both Red County and Reg staffer Martin Wisckol's blog). Apparently, Rackauckas held a meeting with the beseiged editors of

  April 17, 2008

• Reg-O-Meter© -- Week Ending May 10

  TUESDAY, MAY 6 ●A click-up of the Reggie’s website today, and what do we see? Pretty much the most-commented-on headline in Reggie history: MAN SHOOTS DAD IN BUTT. Well, it certainly grabbed our attention. Surprisingly, not one of the Reggie’s citizen pundits were offended, though it did annoy one wag, who asked: “Did the Register lay off the headline department? It sounds like the punch line from a 7-year-old’s joke.” Ahhh, fuck that—the Reg-O-Meter loved the headline, as

  May 10, 2008

• Register Atrocity of the Day

  From the Reggie's In Your Face blog, which, as it says, is all about "Cosmetic medicine, celebrities, and you:" The world's most powerful Botoxed celebrities Y'know, I've just realized why so many of the Reggie's blogs are so hard to find -- this one isn't even on the main blog list on their site. It's like the enslaved, blinded associates over there are so humiliated at what the Reggie has become, they're trying to cover up the more egregious examples of pseudo-journalistic idiocy. And...her

  June 12, 2008

• Orange County Entering Bizarro World

  Dan Chmielewski over at The Liberal OC posted that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama will hold a $2,300-per-plate fundraiser at Newport Beach's Balboa Bay Club but doesn't mention how much of a wrench it is to the county's political cosmology. Read the above again. Barack Hussein Obama. Holding a fundraiser. At the Balboa Bay Club. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD?!?!?!?!? The Balboa Bay Club represents all that's reprehensible with the old Orange County, where GOP men spen

  July 3, 2008

• Is It Time for Ted Crisell?

  November 29, 2001

• Diary of a Mad County

  Nov. 15 - Nov. 21
  

  November 23, 2006

• Commie Girl

  May 11, 2006

• Ink-Stained Wretchedness

  April 21, 2005

• Go Back to Thinking Less of Me

  October 28, 2004

• Lockyer Dances the Dipsy-Do, Tricky-Lawyer Thing With DA

  November 14, 2002

• Heavenly Creatures

  November 7, 2002

• Press Clips

  October 3, 2002

• Send George Packing!

  April 12, 2001

• Fired!

  February 1, 2001

• Fat Cat Nation!

  November 16, 2000

• Jazz Hands, Everyone!

  June 22, 2000

• The Girl Who Peed Herself

  March 23, 2000

• Law and Odor

  March 16, 2000

• OC Republicans Satanic!

  From a Martin Wisckol story in the Register yesterday:One indicator is that the county Republican Party pitched in $666,000 last year to help out campaigns, while the Democratic Party here came up with just $90,000, according to campaign disclosure reports.That's right, the Number of the Beast plus a few zeros is amount OC Republicans raised last year. "What a stupid thing to point out," you may be saying. Well, yes, but if Barack Obama was associated with that number in any way, you know Barbar

  May 5, 2009

• Will Little Saigon Bring Down Loretta Sanchez?

  Sanchez Slayer?North Orange County state Assemblyman Van Tran announced thru the Register's Martin Wisckol today that he hopes to be the 2010 Republican challenger to OC's lone Democratic member of congress: Loretta Sanchez. The news is as surprising as a six-hour traffic jam on the 55 or four-year-old, three-foot pot holes in Santa Ana.Over the last 13 years, local Republican Party heavyweights, disturbed they lost a unanimous Republican congressional delegation in Washington, have made no sec

  May 6, 2009

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: "Go Whites!"

  This week's story is an Aug. 7 column by the Orange County Register's Martin Wisckol, "Whites a minority in California, but still a majority of voters." The story was based on recent Field Poll data that showed that while Whites make up only 43 percent of the state, they represent 65 percent of voters. Latinos, meanwhile, the story noted, "now account for 37 percent of the population but just 21 percent of registered voters," the majority of whom vote for Democratic candidates. Meanwhile "Asians

  August 14, 2009

• Crank Trifecta: A Birther-Tea Bagger-Town Hall Crier Rolled Into One

  Media Matters gets the scoop on this morning's Fox & Friends bringing together the living embodiment of the "grass-roots" Birther, Tea Party and Healthcare Town Hall movements--without acknowledging it, of course, because that would be embarrassing even to Fox News.

  August 19, 2009

• This Memorial Weekend Brought Us Gross Waters and Bland Cops

  What did you miss by turning off the Internet and getting a sunburn this weekend? John Gilhooley / OCWDid Sandra piss off some more republicans this weekend?Honestly, not a lot. Something happened with North Korea, yeah. But in Orange County? Fluff fluff and fluff. Here's your recommended reading from OC's media world from the past three days:The Reg has your omnibus Memorial Day ceremonies story. I liked the one with the Chapman prof dressing up like Dwight Eisenhower.Dana Parsons of the Los An

  May 26, 2009