Blogsphere readers on Mother’s Day were treated to OCPoliticsBlog blogger Art Pedroza throwing yet another old friend under the bus with a post berating BoS candidate Todd Spitzer for hiring Orange Juice blogger Vern Nelson to play piano at a Spitzer holiday party.
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Time to Change Occupy?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments

This post started as one designed to help OccupyOC-Irvine raise money for things the leaderless organization might need. And as the reporting progressed, it’s turned into something … different. I placed an inquiry to Vern Nelson and Greg Diamond, both…
Scenes from Occupy Irvine
by Dan Chmielewski • • 21 Comments
I went down to Irvine’s Civic Center Plaza to catch “Occupy Irvine” for myself. There were between 200 and 250 protesters there and everyone assured me the movement would only grow as the day progressed. But I only had an…
Michele Martinez to run for State Assembly
by Dan Chmielewski • • 9 Comments

Santa Ana council member Michele Martinez has pre-announced that she will announce her candidacy for State Assembly in AD-69 later this week. The council member left a Facebook message to her friends about her plans. The Register’s Andrew Galvin has…
James Rainey on Civil Discourse by Commenters
by Dan Chmielewski • • 11 Comments
Chip Hanlon’s Red County post about censorship by the Fullerton School District in blocking the Friends for Fullerton’s Future was an excellent post not only for the topic, but for the comments it generated. One commenter had a comment blocked…
The Ghost in the Machine
by Dan Chmielewski • • 14 Comments

Sunday’s New York Times Magazine carried a fascinating story about how, once you’re on the web, you can live forever on the Internet. And that’s a lesson the Sarah Palin is learning as her people work feverishly to scrub comments…
Art Pedroza And The Blog War of HIS Creation
by Claudio Gallegos • • 20 Comments
A recent post and e-mail sent out by Orange Juice blogger and former friend Art Pedroza would have you believe that somehow we all have been engaging in some sort of Blog War over the past year. He tries to spin some story to make readers somehow feel sorry for him and his current woes at the same time trying to claim Dan, Chris and myself are the sole villians in this affair. Below is his “woe is me” e-mail to people trying to somehow instill pity.

