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Chris Paine's murder non-mystery Who Killed the Electric Car? begins, appropriately enough, with a funeral. A bunch of people in black are at an actual cemetery, with fresh flowers all around, saying their final goodbyes to the electric vehicle (EV), which was done in by a perfect storm of dark forces that are thoroughly outed …
Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof (see him in the upcoming documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?) sent this along about Iraq's girl blogger “Riverbend”: “She offers a ground-level female perspective on Iraq and your Tax dollars at work. Against incredible odds, this literate and intense young Iraqi brings her thoughts to the world…and may bring …
Every so often I still flash on the moment in the driveway of Doug Korthof's Seal Beach home three years ago when he turned the key on the dash of his most precious automobile and . . . nothing happened. “When are you going to start it?” I asked, fearful that what we had here …
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After a polite email exchange with Seal Beach environmental/electric car/anti-Bush activist Doug Korthof — he was catching This Ticking Time Bum up on what he's been up to lately (lots more than us, that's fer sure) — it occured to us that if the automakers are telling the truth, our heads will all explode right …
How are we supposed to learn from history if we can't even agree what that history taught us? Seal Beach's Doug Korthof pointed us to an LA Times story you can find at this link … http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-haig12mar12,1,2499867.story … where Gen. Al Haig sees parallels between Vietnam and Iraq. So far, so good, because it's as …
BEST PLACE EVER We write about the Atlantis Playcenter every year, and we will not stop. In the past, we've called it the “coolest park in Orange County,” but that probably didn't do it justice since it's probably the coolest place in Orange County. Built in the '60s, it's strange play equipment built around an …
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Photo by James BunoanI had arranged to meet Doug Korthof on a Tuesday to talk about his increasingly futile campaign to save the Earth by saving the electric car in California. But then I imagined pulling up to Korthof's Seal Beach house in my yacht-sized 1974 Cadillac El Dorado convertible, the one that racks up …