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Dana Watch: Slime Baugh
Scott Baugh, the former California Assembly Republican leader and Orange County GOP chairman, should feel honored. The re-election campaign for Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Cambridge Analytica) put out its first mailer sliming a candidate seeking the incumbent’s coastal Orange County congressional seat. However, the mailer’s target is not one of the six Democrats who have been […]
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A Lotto B.O. [Hey, You!]
You were holding up the line at the liquor store. You had on giant, Coke-bottle-thick glasses and a Marine haircut. You insisted on standing at the counter, scraping Scratcher after Scratcher, determined to win a million dollars before you walked out the door. Meanwhile, the cloud of hot mugginess around you was the opposite of […]
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Down There [Savage Love]
Background: I, a 21-year-old male, enjoy receptive fisting. I’ve also had constipation problems all my life. Question: I saw my doctor recently, and he tried to link my enjoyment of anal sex to my constipation. (Granted, I didn’t tell him EVERYTHING I do down there.) My understanding was that there was no causal relationship, assuming […]
Lawsuit Filed Against Los Alamitos Over Anti-Sanctuary State Ordinance
Two days after Los Alamitos city council adopted an ordinance opting-out of the California Values Act, attorneys filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the move. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU), the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the Latham & Watkins firm joined together in representing Los Alamitos residents […]
Jury Pummels Police Lawsuit Specialist and His Defense Lawyer Client
A criminal defense lawyer, his plaintiff’s counsel, an ex-district attorney’s investigator and his lawyer this month walked into a bar, no, a federal courthouse. James Crawford, the criminal defense lawyer, said something like, “I deserve $2 million because the investigator pulverized my face with his fist in a 2016 Orange County Superior Court brawl.” His […]
Anti-Defamation League Joins Call for HB Finance Commissioner’s Removal
Gracey Van Der Mark somehow remains on the Huntington Beach finance commission even after a controversy erupted around her online bigotry earlier this month. As the Weekly reported, Van Der Mark recently deleted comments on YouTube where she referred to blacks as “colored people” and suggested they dutifully did the bidding of Jews at a […]
Win or Lose in Los Alamitos, Undocumented Immigrants Will Continue to Fight
By Samuel Paramore For a long time, Orange County’s preferred public image proclaimed itself a white suburban wonderland. The hard-working immigrant communities that are its backbone are made to be unseen, save for when they’re bashed for political expediency. Immigrants, undocumented or not, are always exploited for their labor and when it comes to their […]
Los Alamitos Police Silent on City’s Potential “Sanctuary State” Opt-Out
Orange County’s chain migration of anti-Sanctuary State city council revolts returns this evening to where it all began in Los Alamitos. Following a 4-1 vote last month, council members are set for a second reading of an ordinance that will formally exempt Los Alamitos from the California Values Act (also known as SB 54). The […]
Peter Muntean ID’d as Man Critically Wounded in Anaheim Police Shooting
UPDATE, APR. 14, 8:00 A.M.: Police identified the man wounded in yesterday’s officer-involved shooting as 24-year-old Petrica Peter Muntean. He remains in critical condition. The department also released more details into the Thursday night incident that led officers to identify Muntean the following morning at a Carl’s Jr. parking lot. Around 8:30 p.m., police responded to […]
OVSD Trustee Sues HB Blogger for Violent Threats, Gets Temporary Restraining Order
Ocean View School District trustee Gina Clayton-Tarvin is as tough as they come, but even she has legal limits. Attorneys for the school board member filed a lawsuit on Mar. 22 in Orange County Superior Court against Huntington Beach blogger Chuck Johnson for defamation, harassment and making criminal threats against an elected public official. Johnson […]
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Oink! [Hey, You!]
Wearing an Army cap, but long AWOL on diet and fitness, you are the overweight, puffy, out-of-shape heart attack in waiting. I am sitting across the aisle from you with a plateful of morbid fascination as you contentedly shovel sliced franks with mustard over Sloppy Joes, pieces of bacon and corned beef hash into your […]
Despite the Movies, Godfather of Ganja Cheech Marin Defies What It Means to be a Stoner
“Hey, you wanna get high, man?” The camera pulls back to show a 1964 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport driving along the coast. “Does Howdy Doody got wooden balls, man?” “I’ve got a joint here that I’ve been saving for a special occasion.” The next shot shows the infamous godfathers of cannabis: Richard “Cheech” Marin, with […]
Dana Watch: Annotated Blowhard
Below is a March 23 statement titled “Homeless Shelter Nonsense” by Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Hand Puppet) . . . with helpful annotation by yours truly. The chickens are coming home to roost after almost a decade of Liberal/Left control of our state and federal government. Those chickens have ended up in Orange County. [Where […]
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Call for Submissions [Savage Love]
I’m a 36-year-old straight woman. I was sexually and physically abused as a kid and raped in my early 20s. I have been seeing a great therapist for the past five years, and I am processing things and feeling better than I ever have. I was in a long-term relationship that ended about two years […]
Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas Mocks Court of Appeal’s Snitch Ruling
Before letting police officers answer questions on the witness stand about possible crimes, prosecutors usually establish credibility by eliciting their work experience. Most cops impressively recall the day, month and year of every promotion, even in multidecade careers. But recently inside a Little Saigon-area courtroom, Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) deputy Cyril Foster appeared […]
Stem Cell Transplant Dr. Eugen Michael Molnar has CA Medical License Revoked
The Medical Board of California recently revoked the license to practice of a Czechoslovakia-born physician who began his career in plastic surgery but went on to transplant fetal precursor cells in patients of his offices in Orange County and around the world. Click here to read the order against the license of Dr. Eugen Michael […]
Bloody Orange County Cop v. Lawyer Fight Lands in Federal Court
A violent state courthouse encounter between an Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) investigator and a criminal defense attorney tied to the infamous jailhouse informant scandal officially landed inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse today with both sides using profanity-laced opening statements to portray their clients as the victim in a bloody 2016 ruckus. […]
Driver Digs the Drive and Riders Relish the Ride in 2018 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring
A recent turnaround trip to the Phoenix area was made quickly, comfortably and classily (?) by a “Soul Red Crystal Metallic” Mazda CX-9. The all-wheel-drive ride arrived on my doorstep (or driveway, to be more precise) with a heap of praise. Car and Driver lists it among the 2018 10Best Trucks and SUVs, and U.S. […]
OC Register Sports Section Publishes Weeks-Old NBA Standings Ahead of Playoffs
The NBA season wraps up tomorrow night with several seeds up in the air and all but one remaining playoff slot left to be determined. But unsuspecting sports fans wouldn’t know it by turning the pages of the OC Register‘s sports section this morning as I did while sitting on the can (TMI?). That’s because […]
More Deputies on Mission Viejo Streets Today Seek Drunk and Drugged Drivers
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department runs a rare Tuesday of DUI “saturation patrols” in Mission Viejo today. Such operations put more deputies on the streets than those already on routine patrols. The extra deputies, who are specially trained through OCSD’s DUI Enforcement Team, concentrate on roads known for drunken and/or drugged driving stops, arrests, crashes […]
Third Wave of Anti-Sanctuary State Council Meetings Slated This Week in OC
They keep coming. City councils in Orange County are passing resolutions, filing court documents supportive of a federal lawsuit and even suing California on their own against its “Sanctuary State” laws. This week, three more city governments will consider taking action in various forms in a revolt first unleashed by Los Alamitos last month. Not to […]
