Why is New OC Register Editor Rob Curley Already So Loathed in the Newsroom?

From the moment the memo came out confirming news we had broken earlier in the morning–that the Orange County Register was laying off dozens of veterans, including longtime editor Ken Brusic, and putting deputy editor of local news Rob Curley in charge–the emails started coming in from the private (and made-up!) accounts of Reg folks, …

OC DA Sees No Harm, No Foul by Anaheim Police in Custodial Death of Homeless Man

On Halloween 2012, Alan Douglas Bluck got drunk. After he passed out next to an empty bottle of vodka, Anaheim police arrested the homeless man for public intoxication. Early the following morning, a guard found Bluck unresponsive in the city jail and doctors later pronounced him dead at a nearby hospital. As is customary by …

The Walking Dead Online Course at UC Irvine Was Such a Global Hit Expect More to Come

Given the popularity of AMC's The Walking Dead (as well as the graphic novel series that preceded it), you didn't have to be a brain surgeon/slurper to figure UC Irvine's massive open online course (MOOC) themed after the show would be a big hit with students. But the MOOC turned out to be so huge–attracting …

Orly Taitz “Evidence” of Obama's “Black Racist Regime” Pulled from White Supremacist Site

Orly Taitz, the Rancho Santa Margarita-based Queen of the Birfers, has lately taken to calling out the “black racist regime” of Barack Obama and Eric Holder, with her “demand” for “impeachment hearings” for the country's attorney general based on “evidence” from a white supremacist website. Taitz's latest online rant came before Fourth District Court of …

UCI Defies UC Ban on Smoking, Allows E-Cigarettes on Campus: Update

Update, Jan. 16, 2013: Well, we're gonna have to add a “Just Kidding!” to this blog post now. Shortly after UCI announced that they would allow e-cigs and chewing tobacco on campus, the statement was retracted. UCI now joins all of the other California Universities in having a completely smoke, tobacco, and nicotine free campus. …

Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita Host Anti-Booze Patrols Tonight

Special patrols by deputies hoping to remove from the streets drivers who have been over-boozing and/or -drugging blanket Lake Forest, Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita tonight, the Orange County Sheriff's Department announced. These saturation patrols are scheduled to run from 7 p.m. through 3 a.m. Saturday on roadways with frequent DUI arrests, collisions or …

Little Saigon Doctor Who Ran Huge Medicare Scam Relocates To A Federal Prison

A Little Saigon doctor with hefty California Republican Party connections isn’t celebrating these holidays at home with family and friends. Vietnam War refugee, Tuan Duc Tran–CEO of Fountain Valley Healthcare Center and the eldest son of a once high-ranking South Vietnamese Army officer–is now living in a federal prison in Kern County. After being indicted …

Kids, Suicide Isn't Awesome: The Dreary 47 Ronin Falls On Its Sword

Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves' let's-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves samurai drama has exactly three things going for it. First, the cockeyed sensuality of Rinko Kikuchi as a spider-puking evil witch who can transform herself into a fox, a swathe of magic-carpet silk or …