Subject: The Pentagon

• Massively Penetrating in Vegas

  Looking for something new to do in Vegas? Something that involves breathing in massive amounts of particulate matter blown in from the desert? Something that involves watching yet another bit of idiotic Bush administration defense planning go up in smoke (literally)? Something a little mushroom cloudy? Well, you're in luck. Agence France-Presse reports that during the first week of June your tax dollars will be hard at work setting off a 700 ton explosion at the Nuclear Test Site just north of

  March 30, 2006

• America: Fun While It Lasted

  More credible minds than mine say time to call it like it is. As promised below: Arthur columnist Douglas Rushkoff thinks the great democratic experiment is just about over: Those of us who try to stay even remotely connected to what is going on in the world around us have enough hard evidence to conclude with certainty that voting in America has been systematically and effectively undermined by the party currently in power. In an increasing number of precincts, how people vote – if they a

  November 7, 2006

• Standard Operating Procedures

  There are those who say that the Department of Homeland Security, which the Bush administration frankensteined into existence in 2002, is a dysfunctional government agency, but this morning's New York Times brings evidence that DHS is clearly following in the steps of such well established and widely admired entities as the Pentagon: Flat-bottomed rescue boats at double the retail price, $68,500 worth of unused dog booties, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of computers that somehow disapp

  July 19, 2006

• Good Times At OC Defense Co.

  Thanks to the ongoing U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Ceradyne, Inc.'s profits have skyrocketed. Late last month, the Costa Mesa-based company reported record first quarter sales of $188 million and a whopping 54 percent increase in net income. Indeed, it's gross profit margin for the period was 41 percent of sales. Ceradyne, which "develops, manufactures and markets advanced technical ceramic products and components for defense, industrial, automotive/diesel and commercial applications,"

  May 30, 2007

• Charge of the Register Lite Brigade

  Since Ronald Reagan turned it into a bloodsport, most journalists in this country are routinely assumed to carry a liberal media bias ("Guilty!"). One place you'll often see that bandied about is in the Orange County Register--not directed at its own fleet of word monkeys, oh no, no, no, but journos anywhere and everywhere else. The way the old saw goes is most reporters cannot be trusted to report The Truth because they harbor biases that slant The Truth a certain way. Which is why we were ti

  June 22, 2006

• LAFF 2007: Stuttering to a Close

  After spending the other day at the Landmark, surrounded by bookstore windows advertising the latest upcoming boy-wizard bonanza, I had to wonder if I'm the only one who wants to chant "Har-ry Potter and the DEATHLY HALLOWS! Har-ry Potter and the DEATHLY HALLOWS! " in the style of the Beastie Boys yelling about Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. Hoping readers have the faintest clue what's being talked about here. If not, let's keep moving along. Seated at the free Internet tables in the Red Room pou

  July 1, 2007

• Do you know Dick? Nixon that is.

  In honor of our 37th president's would-be birthday today we here at the Weekly have decided to create a quiz to test our readers' knowledge of their only locally born president, Richard Nixon. He's from Yorba Linda, donchaknow. 1. What is Dick's middle name? A. Homer B. Bart C. Smithers D. Milhous 2. What was Dick's nickname? A. Tricky Dick B. Lil' Wiener C. Dickface D. Rich Kane 3. What caused Dick to resign from the presidency? A. The theft of numerous large black dildos B. An array of

  January 9, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  August 15, 2008

• Pentagon Flyover Hysteria Rocks the Internets

  Ever since my cover story last Thursday hit the online conspiracy websites, my inbox has been bombarded with emails from folks obsessed with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as they pertain to the U.S. Pentagon and an American Airlines jet that either did or didn't hit the building, depending on what theory you happen to believe. My story dealt with a pair of local 9/11 researchers--or "truthers," as they often call themselves--who have produced a DVD called "The PentaCon" alleging that a) the Amer

  August 19, 2008

• Letters

  June 17, 1999

• The Death Ray

  October 7, 1999

• Up In Smoke

  November 18, 1999

• No Shelter

  September 20, 2001

• Lasers

  August 15, 2002

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 4, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 28, 2008

• Space Case

  February 7, 2002

• Bushies Order Takeout

  February 6, 2003

• A Terrorist Tool?

  September 8, 2005

• Ending War 101

  September 7, 2006

• A Death in the Family

  August 10, 2006

• Let's Roll Film

  July 27, 2006

• Pimping the System

  May 11, 2006

• Don't Gloat Yet

  December 29, 2005

• Mr. Rooney Goes to UCI

  December 29, 2005

• the Rise of Carbon

  November 24, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 20, 2005

• Fema Food

  October 6, 2005

• a Clockwork Orange

  September 22, 2005

• About Face! Forward, Censor!

  July 22, 2004

• Empire Falls

  March 18, 2004

• Hard Cell

  February 26, 2004

• Homeland Insecurity

  May 15, 2003

• Get Your Iraqs Off

  April 24, 2003

• 'We Will Not Resolve This With Cannons

  April 3, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Pocket Rocket

  December 19, 2002

• Jingle Alarm Bells

  December 12, 2002

• No Escape

  July 11, 2002

• Seizures in the Middle East

  April 11, 2002

• I Cannot Take This Again

  September 27, 2001

• Awwww!

  August 2, 2001

• The Skunk and the Worm

  May 24, 2001

• Alien Toxins

  December 9, 1999

• Your Name Here!

  August 19, 1999

• Ho-ing for Boeing

  July 29, 1999

• The Phantom Menace

  July 15, 1999

• Star Wars, the Sequel

  February 11, 1999

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises

  Top U.S. Secrets to Crooks, Idiots and Dopers: The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., reports this morning that the Pentagon, the guys running the Iraq War, now want Congress to allow national security clearances for government employees who are “ex-convicts, drug addicts and mentally incompetent.” Congress currently bans the practice. But Pentagon brass say the restriction “unduly” handicaps the Department of Defense and note that people should be forgiven for their sins—unless, of

  July 10, 2007

• Is Obama Our Nixon and Fox News Our New York Times?

  ​Is Barack Obama this generation's disgraced Orange County favorite son Richard Nixon?And does that make Fox News the Dick-era equivalent of the Pentagon Papers-publishing New York Times?Well, Bebe Rebozo, see if you can follow the bouncing twisted-logic ball . . .

  October 14, 2009