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Every week, theOC Weekly tries to print the best letters that flow into our office. And every week, there are letters that don't make the cut. Some don't run because they have nothing to do with anything we've written. Some don't run because another letter writer has made the exact same point (usually in fewer …
Journalists get used to crank mail. I used to work at a magazine where we would routinely get handwritten missives accusing us of spreading Satanism or blaspheming God. But my favorite letter was the guy who wrote in saying he was a successful businessman who loved the magazine, but he had trouble meeting women. He …
In this issue, Machine Age columnist Wyn Hilty mentions a Dec. 17 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). The civil rights group's report documents the CCC's ties to white supremacists. Well, guess who pops up in the report? None other than Michael Collins Piper, whose inclusion …
With Christmas just a week away, the mostly women workers at the L.V. Myles plant in Haiti earning pennies an hour are working extra-hard sewing some of the cute Disney clothes children love so much. In Vietnam, hundreds of young women, virtually all younger than 20, are earning 6 cents per hour as they manufacture …
As difficult as it is to believe, there are people out there with nothing better to do than try to disrupt Usenet newsgroups. These strange, parasitic beings are known as “trolls,” and they like nothing more than to embroil a newsgroup in a lengthy, meaningless, profanity-filled argument by posting deliberately provocative and offensive messages. I …
Judging by the number of pundits who have hailed the Internet as the dawn of a new era in politics, one in which citizens could sally forth into the cold November air bundled snugly in raw, unfiltered, unspun information, the Net should have revolutionized the political process by now. Instead, it has emerged as a …
The Internet used to be a kind of reservation where geeks like me could freely engage in debate over who was sexier: Picard or Kirk. Then the World Wide Web glitzed it up, and business moneyed it up, and when the dust cleared, big business, governments worldwide, lawyers and ordinary citizens were locked in a …
During the 1996 presidential campaign, the absence of real issues put family values on the evening news. The Soviet Union was well over. The economy was spinning. Clinton had one-upped Republicans and smashed welfare altogether. All that remained was to yack about what makes a great dad. As goes the nation, so goes theater, where …
I first became severely depressed during my junior year in college, following the painful end of an even more painful relationship. I won't inflict the details on you, but in brief, my breakdown involved copious amounts of alcohol, razorblades, and hysterical 3 a.m. episodes. Ultimately, a combination of therapy and drugs pulled me over the …
CAL STATE FULLERTON (WWW.FULLERTON.EDU)ON THE ONE HAND: $30 million expansion of library and bookstore. McCarthy Hall escalator. Journalism school includes media-law expert Rick Pullen. Baseball program is a perennial powerhouse. Good visual-arts program. Men's restrooms in arts building used to be notorious for unmentionable reasons. Chemists and biochemists can get molecular in the newly opened …
Orange County may be famous for ska and punk-hey, why not call it “skunk”?-but taking place right here and now is an authentic roots renaissance. Like all pop genres, the scene is fractured, but not so fractured that we can't identify a few similarities: classic forms and styles; emphasis on craft and musicianship over flavor-of-the-week …
On a recent Saturday morning, Huntington Beach Assemblyman Scott Baugh sat down with a handful of people, most of them from an organization called Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (FACTS). The fact that he was there-he's a self-described conservative Republican-and that he had invited them to his office and greeted them at the door …