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May 6, 2012
Reading, Writing and Registering: Mr. Bib Goes All Civic on You!
With springtime arrive the starter tomato plants at Home Depot, the County worker with frisky young mosquito fish for the bathtub pond, the cheerful UPS man with delivering new books, and the democratic parade that is the renewed political season, with signature gathering and voter registration and ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
Ten Musician Stamps We'd Like To See
The US Postal Service, desperate to stop 15 years of bleeding caused by email and private competitors, announced that it will soon feature living people on stamps (the post office has long had a policy of placing only the dead on postage). Of interest to this column, the USPS will consider fe ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
Low Pay for Airline Pilots "Threatens" the Country
A couple months ago, I almost blogged something that claimed regional airline pilots earn an average of $14,000 a year. Believing that to be a typo--pilots are rolling in it, right?--I moved on to something more important, like Octomom boxing an East Coast skank.However, the nonprofit investigati ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Final D23 Expo Details Revealed: Sneak Peeks, Pixar Stamps, Screenings
D23 is now just one week away and, oddly enough, I find myself getting excited. Of course, I am a Disnerd, but what I'm not a fan of is being stuffed into a room for hours on end with folks who go above and beyond being simple fans. Many D23 attendees will live Disney, much in the same way I live ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Planters Peanuts Commercial Insults Mexicans
Have you seen this TV commercial for Planters Peanuts? The little peanut character on the back of the bike pedals like crazy until he keels over, while Mr. Peanut does nothing and cruises to an easy victory.The character is dressed in a shirt that says cacahuete, French for "peanut"--if it had t ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
On Record, the Carpenters Bombed
Could it have been this 45?The Register reports that the Cypress Police Department received a suspicious package Monday, which led to a call to the Orange County Sheriff's Department bomb squad. The dangerous package? "An old 45 single by The Carpenters, with a note asking police t ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2010
Sunday News Notes
Sunday highlights from the local media include:NEW MOONINGThe annual mooning of Amtrak train passengers happened yesterday in Laguna Hills and the OC Register was there to take pictures and video of the "nearly 100" participants. For the front page of the local section story, the Reg published a ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
Mail-Stealing Mail Worker Sent to Jail
Flickr user Steve 2.0 / Creative Commons.Tired of using the excuse that your grandma's birthday card didn't ever arrive because it was "lost in the mail?" Instead try this one: It was stolen by a postal worker.That would have been a valid excuse coming from many victims of former US Postal Servic ... More >>
Columns
November 12, 2009
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Flickr user Steve 2.0 / Creative Commons.Tired of using the excuse that your grandma's birthday card didn't ever arrive because it was "lost in the mail?" Instead try this one: It was stolen by a postal worker.That would have been a valid excuse coming from many victims of former US Postal Servic ... More >>
News
November 5, 2009
OC's Famous Desegregation Case Finally Gets Its Historical Due, But One Family Feels Left Out
Flickr user Steve 2.0 / Creative Commons.Tired of using the excuse that your grandma's birthday card didn't ever arrive because it was "lost in the mail?" Instead try this one: It was stolen by a postal worker.That would have been a valid excuse coming from many victims of former US Postal Servic ... More >>
News
June 4, 2009
[Summer Guide] What Not to Do When You're Desperate and Hungry for Money
Flickr user Steve 2.0 / Creative Commons.Tired of using the excuse that your grandma's birthday card didn't ever arrive because it was "lost in the mail?" Instead try this one: It was stolen by a postal worker.That would have been a valid excuse coming from many victims of former US Postal Servic ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2009
Going Postal to Help Hungry Orange Countians
When the postman drops letters, magazines and packages off at your Orange County home or business on Saturday, he or she is going to want something in return: food.To help combat a sharply increasing need for emergency food assistance, U.S. Postal Service letter carriers will seek donated food items ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2009
Why Doesn't Westminster Commemorate Mendez vs. Westminster?
A faithful reader recently wrote in a question for my ¡Ask a Mexican! column wondering why the city of Westminster doesn't acknowledge Mendez vs. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case that allowed Mexican kids to attend school with their white peers and served as a precursor to the much-more ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2009
Hey, Federales: Don't Forget the Pedo-Priest Protectors from the Diocese of Orange!
When I heard late that the United States Attorney's office is investigating Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony for his role in covering up the rapes committed by his priest, I attributed it to a hallucination brought on by last night's episode of Lost. But here's the Los Angeles Times ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2008
Post Thanksgiving Report of Lies and Kindness
Like the rest of the country, Orange County residents awoke early on the day after Thanksgiving and rushed to national chain stores which, despite mainstream media claims otherwise, were waiting to pounce with rip-offs and lies.At 8:30 a.m. at Best Buy in Orange (not far from Disneyland) dozens and ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines
Postal problemos persist: San Juan Capistrano residents have won their war with the U.S. Postal Service, and the planned 9-acre building they protested will rise in Aliso Viejo. But guess what? The folks there don't want it either. Lookin' for cheap labor: Wonder how the OC Reg plans to fill the vo ... More >>
Columns
November 30, 2006
Commie Girl
Pots of Gold: At the end, theres the Rainbow
Columns
June 1, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
May 24 - May 30
Blogs
March 14, 2006
Barbecuing Dogs and Blowing Up Frogs
It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one ... More >>
Columns
August 12, 2004
Diary of a Mad County
It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one ... More >>
Columns
July 1, 2004
Diary of a Mad County
It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one ... More >>
Columns
November 20, 2003
Feel the Love
It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one ... More >>
Music
April 4, 2002
Not Unlistenable
The 2002 Orange County Music Awards
News
March 30, 2000
Columbia House Breakers
Will online kill the rock & roll music club?
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October 14, 1999
Y2K: Now With Fewer Cranky Christians!
Christians stop praying for high-tech Apocalypse

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