Subject: Orange County Community College

• Have you impugned your local librarian today?

  Those wascally wabble wousers at Dissent the Blog, your duly elected South Orange County Community College District watchdogs, have posted for our listenting pleasure a snippet from a recent Board of Disgustees meeting where (Dis)Trustee Don Wagner calls the American Library Association, based on his own sterling research, a "bunch of liberal busybodies." The set up: During that portion of the meeting where Bored Members sleepwalk through consent-worthy items like adding more disinfectant biscu

  February 6, 2006

• What Do Barry Bonds and Saddleback Ballplayers Have in Common?

  The answer -- alleged steroid abuse -- is apparently in the May 11 issue of the Lariat, the student newspaper of the goosesteppin' South Orange County Community College District's Saddleback College in Mission Viejo and Irvine Valley College (IVC) in Irvine. This free Backward S.I. Sportswatch crudely carves "apparently" because we haven't seen the actual article where this claim supposedly surfaces. We tried to find it online through the Saddleback College website -- where a link to the Lariat

  May 16, 2006

• "Libertarian" not Libertarian on Library

  Our pals at Dissent the Blog have a new post today following up on South Orange County Community College District trustee Don Wagner, at the board's January meeting, leading a vote to remove the American Library Association from its list of memberships. Wagner called the ALA "liberal busybodies" for opposing filters on library computers and essentially un-American for opposing portions of the Patriot Act. DtB resurrected the Wagner item because of a recent New York Times story reporting that not

  June 1, 2006

• Free Orange County! Kill The Mouse! Er, Bee!

  Don't watch Venture Brothers? You should start. And you might as well start with the latest episode to appear on the Adult Swim website, "The Incredible Mr. Brisby." Dr. Venture, his skull-cracking manservant Brock Sampson (voiced by the incomparable Patrick Warburton and boasting a more impressive Wikipedia entry than some alt-weeklies I know) and the Venture Brothers themselves (Dean and Hank) go on a wacky, zany, sexy and blood-soaked romp through Brisbyland, complete with Busy Bee mascot and

  April 4, 2008

• OC Fundie Funder Gives Money to Wacky Reeps, Homo-Haters--And Lou Correa?!

  The most influential Orange County man you've never heard of is undoubtedly Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., heir to the Home Savings (remember that bank?) fortune. He rarely makes public appearances due to suffering from Tourette's Syndrome, but that hasn't stopped him from giving millions of dollars away to some of the craziest causes imaginable: creationism, anti-gay marriage, anti-gay clerics in the Episcopalian Church, and so many others that in its list of America's most influential evangelicals a

  June 19, 2008

• Letters to the Editor 1/22/99

  January 28, 1999

• Letters

  July 29, 1999

• Ralph Crammed In

  November 2, 2000

• Letters

  November 9, 2000

• [Summer Guide] Lisa Alvarez's Summer Reading List

  June 12, 2008

• Needs More Stabbing

  April 7, 2005

• Tom Fuentes,

  March 31, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 17, 2005

• Letters

  March 17, 2005

• No Entiendo

  March 10, 2005

• Diary Of A Mad County

  May 20, 2004

• Driving Through the Valley of Malls

  March 27, 2003

• Slim Pickins

  March 7, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 14, 2002

• Lovett or Leave It

  October 4, 2001

• Dick Nixons Revenge

  September 6, 2001

• Laugh-In

  April 5, 2001

• LA? No Way?

  March 29, 2001

• We Love to See You Smile From a Tree

  March 22, 2001

• Letters

  March 1, 2001

• Letters

  February 22, 2001

• LA? No Way?

  February 15, 2001

• Letters

  November 16, 2000

• Blow Hard

  July 6, 2000

• Law and Odor

  March 16, 2000

• Letters

  January 13, 2000

• Not-So-Secret Service

  December 30, 1999

• Read All About It

  December 9, 1999

• Guilty Pleasures

  October 28, 1999

• Another Fine Mess

  July 15, 1999

• Lightning Rod

  February 4, 1999

• October-December

  January 7, 1999

• The Year in Cyberspace

  January 7, 1999

• Let's Get Mikey

  December 31, 1998

• 'Jeeeeeezuz Christ!'

  November 12, 1998

• Teach Your Children Hell

  November 12, 1998

• Hate Central

  November 12, 1998

• Orange County's Scariest People!

  November 5, 1998

• Show Stopper

  October 29, 1998

• Cirque du Socccd

  October 19, 2000

• Tangled Web of Hate Weaved By Carto, Von Brunn & Co.

  Willis Carto speaks at a David Duke event about five years ago. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry and it takes Irvine Valley College philosophy professor Ray Roy Bauer to connect the dots between National Holocaust Museum shooter James Wenneker von Brunn, some of our most notorious local haters and The Unabauer's own South Orange County Community College District.Keep your eyes on the road because it gets twisty.As Bauer notes on his Dissent the Blog here and here, von Brunn

  June 19, 2009

• Shamed ex-SEC Chairman Chris Cox to Float Not on Ice Floe But Orange County Republican Party Boat

  John McCain wanted Christopher Cox fired as the George W. Bush-appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Los Angeles Times opined that Cox's chairmanship will be characterized by missing the signs that Wall Street was poised for a meltdown, noting the critics who said Cox's long-standing support of a deregulated market and friendliness to business made him "the wrong SEC chairman at the wrong time." Securities law professor Robert Hillman at UC Davis blasted Cox for being

  July 20, 2009

• 'No Entiendo'

  March 10, 2005

• Separated at Birth? Ask a Mexican's Logo, Saddleback College's Gaucho

  ​Sorry to say I don't know much about Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. I went there once with a cute Vietnamese girl in 2001 to hear Nobel Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu speak, and I once asked South Orange County Community College District trustee and longtime GOP head Tom Fuentes about his feelings regarding the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal (the very first Ex Cathedra story) after a board meeting at the hilly campus. And my chica once presented there, so I had to drop her off.My

  November 10, 2009

• [UPDATED] Federal Lawsuit Targets Orange County College District Prayers

  ​UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM LAWYER FOR THE DISTRICT . . . A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the South Orange County Community College District over official prayers during public ceremonies, Americans United for Separation of Church and State announced today.

  November 20, 2009