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Thomas Jefferson

  • News

    March 15, 2012

    Bruce Gleason Wants Your God to Noexist

    Forget Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the rest. It's all about us, says Orange County's most famous atheist

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Backyard Skeptics' "Treaty of Tripoli" Billboard Advocates Separation of Church and State

    ​Having screwed the pooch on a billboard with an atheist-friendly misquote from Thomas Jefferson has not stopped Fountain Valley-based Backyard Skeptics from going to the inkwell again. This time, above a Costa Mesa mattress store, it's a 48x14-foot "Treaty of Tripoli" billboard that boldly states ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2011

    Donald Bren's Highway Robbery

    [Moxley Confidential] The developer's role in creating the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road is the county's most embarrassing un-prosecuted crime.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Thomas Jefferson Atheist Billboard Debacle Applauded by Humanists

    ​Talk about turning lemons into hard lemonade, humanists are expressing "enthusiasm" over a Costa Mesa billboard featuring an atheist-friendly quote by Thomas Jefferson being taken down shortly after it went up because the third U.S. president apparently never uttered or wrote the message.Why appl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    [UPDATED with a Jeffersonian Misquote:] Jefferson's Atheist Message is Movin' on Up

    ​UPDATE, OCT. 26, 2:20 P.M.: The Jefferson Library Collection at Monticello, which is the world's leading authority on things written and said by Thomas Jefferson, is disavowing the quote the Orange County atheist group Backyard Skeptics attributes to the third U.S. president on a billboard unveil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    OC Atheists Unveil Another Provocative Billboard

    ​This afternoon, under a billboard facing Chapman Avenue in Orange, local atheists unveil the third phase of their "outreach program for letting other non-believers know they have a voice in Orange County." The grass-roots group Backyard Skeptics will unveil their latest billboard, which has text ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Apple Founder Steve Jobs Has Died

    ​Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple Computers, who changed the landscape of the computer industry, has died today at the age of 56. No, it's a not a joke this time.Apple posted the following statement on their website:Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Atheists To Cut-and-Paste Bibles Saturday

    ​Atheists will be tearing a page from the Bible Saturday near Huntington Beach Pier.No, that does not mean they'll be borrowing a deed from the Good Book to apply to modern life.They'll be tearing actual pages out of the Bible "to make a point."

  • Film

    May 26, 2011

    Difficult Gifts

    What Terrence Malick has to offer is worth working for

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    18 Reasons Sammy Davis Jr. Beats Michael Jackson in Heavenly Greatest Entertainer Who Ever Lived Smackdown

    Barry Gordy eulogizes Michael Jackson.At Michael Jackson's moving memorial in the Staples Center Tuesday, Motown founder Berry Gordy eulogized that the title "King of Pop" was not big enough for Jacko, calling him "simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived."Somewhere in Heaven, Sammy Davis Jr. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    $15 2-Course Lunch at Anaheim White House For Administrative Professionals' Week

    The Anaheim White House is offering a special for Administrative Assistants' (or Professionals') Week (April 20-24). For $15, you can treat your Administrative Assistant (or Professional) for a two-course lunch (an entree and dessert), and you don't have to report it on your 10-K. Heck for $15 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2008

    Racist Reductio ad Absurdum: Ahistoric Minutemen

    **Originally posted August 6; moved up because of a funny update, which follows original post! Last week, the Campo Minutemen sent out a mass email railing about the mural shown to the left at Marco F. Foster Middle School in San Juan Capistrano. The message sent by one Cheryl Burns is so priceless ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2008

    Mexican Kids Hating Mexican Kids, And Why It's Okay

    La Opinión had a fascinating front-page piece yesterday about kiddies at Creek View Elementary School in Ontario regaling each other with a rhyme that translates as, "I don't want to go to Mexico ever again, again, again/Mexico stinks, stinks, stinks/There's a fat policeman at the door, door, door. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2008

    Sam Zell: He's as American as liking pussy

    Sniff, Sniff, ohh America, you smell like lilacs and tenderness. Billionaire private equity mogul and, since last year, chairman and chief executive of Los Angeles Times parent company Tribune Co. is an unabashed patriot. He loves America, mmm hmm, yes he does. He wants to stick his face right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2008

    Slayer Give Good Head... Protection

    Southern Cali thrash-metal legends Slayer are branching out into motorcycle-helmet designing. Working with O'Neal USA, the band known for classics like Reign in Blood and South of Heaven and being sampled by Public Enemy on "She Watch Channel Zero?!" lent their memorable artwork to the RockHard li ... More >>

  • Music

    October 11, 2007

    Re-running With the Devil

    Van Halen Reunite—Just in Time for Their Excellent Unauthorized Bio

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    Godsmack

    Orange County authors try to bring unity to people of different religious faiths. For this they will face the wrath of believers. Again.

  • Food

    August 3, 2006

    Home for the Holiday

    Dinner at Sejour is a quick trip to an English club

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2006

    The Meek Shall Inherit My Boot Up Their Ass

    Epiphany. For awhile now I've wondered how America could exit in its bizarre current dynamic, with the Christian right flexing its government-sanctioned power, in flagrant defiance of the separation of church and state. Christians who love their neighbors, provided their neighbors accept Jesus. Cons ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2006

    Sic Transit...

    It seem there might be a princess– princess in the sense of being the child of a European royal– somewhere in the Inland Empire. Albert Grimaldi, the ruling prince of Monaco (and one of the least inbred of Europe's royal relics, thanks to the genetic material of Grace Kelly), is reported ... More >>

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Aliso Viejo

    It seem there might be a princess– princess in the sense of being the child of a European royal– somewhere in the Inland Empire. Albert Grimaldi, the ruling prince of Monaco (and one of the least inbred of Europe's royal relics, thanks to the genetic material of Grace Kelly), is reported ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 30, 2004

    Call Me Irresponsible

    Yes, Its Undeniably True

  • Features

    June 10, 2004

    Death of a Salesman

    Ronald Reagan, 19112004

  • Columns

    June 3, 2004

    Girl on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    Let freedom ring

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Dead Man Talking

    The Passion of the Kucinich finds an audience in Long Beach

  • Culture

    January 15, 2004

    Art of War

    Howard Zinns Artists in Times of War

  • Columns

    January 15, 2004

    Roll out the Schwarzenkegger!

    We have a barrel of fees

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Blame the Democrats

    They need to stop acting like drunks at court-ordered AA meetings and sober up

  • Food

    April 3, 2003

    Kiss My Cassoulet!

    Flabby Francophile defends Gauls, dines at Bistro le Crillon

  • Features

    October 24, 2002

    K

    Flabby Francophile defends Gauls, dines at Bistro le Crillon

  • Culture

    September 26, 2002

    Watch What You Say

    Long Beach Playhouses Scales of Justice

  • Culture

    April 4, 2002

    Party Crasher

    Wherere you going to stand when Ralph Nader runs in 2004?

  • Features

    September 27, 2001

    Orange

    Rockwellian virtue made solid

  • Features

    September 27, 2001

    Buena Park

    The thinking mans Anaheim

  • Culture

    April 26, 2001

    Monstrosity of the Unnameable

    Were all Derrieans now

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    QUIET ON THE SET PIECE

    Re-creating Independence Hall

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Hate Central

    OC's bad reputation grows

  • Columns

    September 17, 1998

    Dad Must be So Proud

    OC's bad reputation grows

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