Attempted Sale of Sensitive Technology Overseas Results in Punishment

An Orange County businessman who repeatedly lied to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about efforts to give a foreign nation sophisticated infrared and ultraviolet camouflaging capability paint used by U.S. armed forces hoped for punishment leniency. Jay Soh, a 1983 immigrant from South Korea, argued for no prison time because he and his wife …

John Reed Puts Shakespeare in a Blender and an Anti-War Statement Results

    When mistakes are made in the wild, wacky world of journalism, it’s usually always the writer’s fault (sometimes, it’s an error by an editor; but we’re not supposed to talk about that). But in THIS case, it’s absolutely someone else’s fault: that of John Reed, whose play All The World’s a Grave: a …

Claudio Quest Parodies Nintendo’s Mario Games to Rollicking, Silly Results

Has anyone or anything done comparatively so little and become so iconic as the brothers Mario and Luigi? Okay, lots of things have (hello, Kardashian World Order and all other shitbirds who have no talent or spark other than cultivating the cult of personality). But be that as it may, Mario, the mustachioed, red-capped, blue-overall-clad …

Post Election Medical Marijuana Results: What Happened In Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach?

Post Election Medical Marijuana Results: What Happened In Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach?

The cannabis industry made solid chess moves in California Tuesday night—and we’re not just talking about the approval of Prop. 64. Voters in Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach faced decisions that would determine the fate of medical marijuana within their cities. Laguna Beach’s Measure KK, a citizen-backed initiative rescinding the ban on medical …

Post Election Medical Marijuana Results: What Happened In Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach?

Post Election Medical Marijuana Results: What Happened In Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach?

The cannabis industry made solid chess moves in California Tuesday night—and we’re not just talking about the approval of Prop. 64. Voters in Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach faced decisions that would determine the fate of medical marijuana within their cities. Laguna Beach’s Measure KK, a citizen-backed initiative rescinding the ban on medical …

Post Election Medical Marijuana Results: What Happened In Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach?

The cannabis industry made solid chess moves in California Tuesday night—and we’re not just talking about the approval of Prop. 64. Voters in Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Long Beach faced decisions that would determine the fate of medical marijuana within their cities. Laguna Beach’s Measure KK, a citizen-backed initiative rescinding the ban on medical …

Sloppy Police Work Results In Reversal of Conviction In Laguna Beach Murder

Even rookie cops know they can’t ethically question an arrested criminal suspect who invokes the constitutional right to consult an attorney, but Laguna Beach police botched the long-established rule during a 2009 murder investigation. A three-justice panel at the California Court of Appeal announced this month that detectives should have “immediately” stopped questioning Matthew Thomas Dragna …

Sloppy Police Work Results In Reversal of Conviction In Laguna Beach Murder

Even rookie cops know they can’t ethically question an arrested criminal suspect who invokes the constitutional right to consult an attorney, but Laguna Beach police botched the long-established rule during a 2009 murder investigation. A three-justice panel at the California Court of Appeal announced this month that detectives should have “immediately” stopped questioning Matthew Thomas Dragna …