This post is for frequent commenter Robert “LaRouchie” Lauten, who will spit into the wind his insistence that the re-instatment of the Glass Stegall act which provides tighter regulation of banks and large financial institutions is the cure-all for what ailes…
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Are Prostitutes Being “Sold” in OC on Backpage.com
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
Sunday’s New York Times opinion section carried this column by Nicholas Kristof about Backpage.com, an online classified ad site run by Village Voice Media which owns the OC Weekly. It’s a powerful column where the writer captures the story of…
Yahoo Predicts Obama win in 2012
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
Let me preface this by saying itsa long way to November, but the political scientists and data geeks at Yahoo are calling the 2012 election for President Barack Obama. From this story on Yahoo: The Signal predicts that Barack Obama…
New York Times Weighs In on Santa Ana’s Downtown
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
The nation’s newspaper of record covered the issues facing Downtown Santa Ana in the October 31th edition (editor’s note; the story appeared on the NYTimes website Sunday night Pacific time, so we got the date wrong in the original post. Our…
Matt Taibbi’s Advice for OccupyWallStreet
by Dan Chmielewski • • 21 Comments
Rolling Stone Magazine political writer Matt Taibi is a brilliant progressive journalist. His latest book, Griftopia, is next on my reading list. He appeared on “Countdown with Keith Olberman” and has this advice for the OccupyWallStreet crowd — a crowd…
NY Times on Sexual Predator Laws: Do They Really Protect Children?
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With a number of Orange County cities placing new laws on the books to ban sexual predators from city parks in addition to county parks raises some interesting questions — the most important being: do these new laws actually protect…
Updated with stats! For Republicans, “Compromise” Joins “Liberal” as a Dirty Word
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
In the late George Carlin’s classic bit on the Seven Words You can’t Say on Radio or TV, he laments that there really are no “bad words,” only “bad thoughts” associated with certain words. In 1994, House Speaker Newt Gingrich,…
