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While finding a place to eat out on Thanksgiving, I noticed that all of the local high-quality restaurants included braised beef short ribs on the menu along with the obligatory turkey and a couple other items ( Read more... )

To most people "Orange County" means my town: wealthy, white, beautiful, right-wing, vapid, with a great beach ( Read more... )

The 2005 average income in my zip code was $258,733.14.

Oh the hell with that, time to start stealing from the neighbors. There's no way they'll notice.

I met with Bob at Kean today so I could order a new automatic clutch for his Whizzer. (No, really ( Read more... )

The "health" "plan" from my last job has still not paid any of the claims from February to March of this year ( Read more... )

This is a fascinating al-Jazeera news story about the new "U.S.-Friendly" Sunni alliance in Anbar, the now-dead sheikh supposed to have been in charge of the alliance, and the inevitable money and power game behind that show.

Part I riffs on Apocalypse Now in a very heavy-handed way, appropriately so.

Friday, and we're still in Amman...

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Zeroed out balance, they were crap ghetto credit, goodbye ( Read more... )

I'd like to point out that Generalissimo Greg Haidl is Still in PrisonWhere he belongs. Because sometimes, even in Orange County, even when you're rich as hell, even when your dad is an Assistant Sheriff, even when the Sheriff himself is a corrupt sonofa bitch and the D.A. is in his pocket, even when the arresting department is the Newport Beach P. ( Read more... )

When you're tired of fraud, you're tired of capitalism.