Subject: Rick Santorum

• Gracias, Dan Savage!

  The gayest journalist besides Bruno has spent the better part of two years in his "Savage Love" column urging Pennsylvania readers to vote Senator Rick Santorum out of office. Savage went as far as naming the frothy mixture of lube and shit after the man. The results are in, and it appears Santorum is finished. Gracias, Dan Savage, for ridding us of a fool. And no hard feelings about your dislike of The Mexican.

  November 7, 2006

• Glum Old Party?

  With the Democrats taking the House and threatening to take the Senate at this hour, you might expect the Orange County GOP election night party at the Hyatt Regency Irvine to be a mopey affair. After all, a huge banner in the room proclaims this is "America's Most Republican County." But, other than being about the tenth of the size of previous gloat-a-thons, the well-dressed crowd here is mostly laughing, chatting and paying little attention to the results streaming in on the giant screen CNN

  November 7, 2006

• One Ring to Fool Them All

  On the Orange Punch blog yesterday, Alan Bock wrote a terrifying post under the headline "What if it's true?" It seems he read some blog about a bumper-sticker that read, FRODO HAS FAILED – BUSH HAS THE RING Some intense research revealed that it is in fact true. There is such a bumper-sticker, and it's available for purchase at Café Press. As if that wasn't enough, on Tuesday embattled Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (the guy Dan Savage rightfully demonizes) gave his own take o

  October 19, 2006

• Hughcifer Unhinged

  When it came to this election, Hugh Hewitt, our favorite unintentional radio comedian, fought a long, hard battle against reality. One expects no less from him. He took extraordinary measures to blind and deafen himself, even engaged in a little body-snatching from the Democratic political graveyard, in his attempt to hammer the world into the shape of his strange little fantasy-- a three seat gain for Republicans in the House of Representatives. And even though Hewitt couldn't make reality d

  November 8, 2006

• More Mud Flung at Local Reps

  Five days after we pointed you to a Washington Post story on two ethically challenged local congressman, both got a curtain call for being among the 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress. For their eyebrow-raising, borderline illegal land dealings, Reps. Ken Calvert (R-Riverside, but his district includes parts of South Orange County) and Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar, whose district also takes in a chunk of North County) are ranked alongside such scoundrels as Katherine Harris (R-Florida), Rick Sant

  September 22, 2006

• A Man of Substance

  Longtime readers of Dan Savage's sex-advice column in the Weekly and scores of other alternative publications (including the one Dan edits, The Stranger of Seattle) may recall the direct hit he took at Sen. Rick Santorum three years ago after the Pennsylvania Republican publicly equated homosexuality and bestiality. For you newbie readers, Savage organized a contest to name a sex act after the Republican senator, and the winning reader response involved a frothy substance produced after anal sex

  October 5, 2006

• Third Party results from Tuesday

  Just in case there are any others out there... As expected, Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney were the overwhelming #1 and #2 choices. Both candidates also appeared on ballots for the Peace & Freedom Party, and came out #1 and #2 there as well. West Virginia actor Jesse Johnson got my vote...and exactly 23 others in OC. Final tallies, from the LA Times: GREEN PARTY Nader 940 McKinney 237 Elaine Brown 59 (despite having dropped out of both the race and the party) Kat Swift 34 Jared Ball 25 (al

  February 7, 2008

• Because You're Ugly: Urban Outfitters Pulls Tees in Support of Gay Marriage

  Repeat offender Urban Outfitters has made headlines once again: the leading retailer has taken T-shirts supporting gay marriage off its California shelves this week. The printed Tees, a staple for the popular chain, simply read "I Support Same Sex Marriage." When questioned, a buyer for Urban Outfitters stated that they had received "too much bad press"--though not even a single blog entry had made its way onto the internet, according to the shirt's designer, Tara Litman and New York magazine.

  December 10, 2008

• Moneyopoly

  Who are the OC players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?

  January 24, 2008

• [Trendzilla] They Oughta be Band

  January 8, 2009

• [Election 2008] Three Weddings and a Moose

  October 23, 2008

• Teaching an Old Dick New Tricks

  Thank God weve still got Dick Nixon to kick around

  May 3, 2007

• Commie Girl

  The Game: Carrots

  November 9, 2006

• The Two Faces of Jon

  March 2, 2006

• Step Into Liquid, Bro!

  October 27, 2005

• Montezumas Revenge

  I go to Mexico, and America falls apart

  August 11, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• Letters

  June 26, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 8, 2003

• Casting lott

  December 26, 2002

• More Controversy Dogs Yoo Amid Gig at "Teensy Joke of a College"

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo moves from "teensy joke" to Philly writing gig.Greg Sargent's The Plum Line blog on WhoRunsGov.com, a Washington Post site that runs online biographies of D.C. "players and personalities," has an interesting post on Bush White House torture memo writer John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor finishing up his spring semester visiting professor gig at Chapman University in Orange. In addition to those jobs, Yoo has been contracted since 2008 to write a monthly

  May 12, 2009