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“Speaking truth to power,” “holding the powerful accountable” – that used to be the very touchstone of the Orange Juice Blog back when I first fell in love with it. It was starting to seem recently that we’d been growing away from that ideal. Now that I’m suddenly, unexpectedly in charge, I’d like to see us get back to that.
Not that we should always be jaundiced toward those in power. But politicians who’ve been securely in place for many years, decades even, deserve a little extra scrutiny, a little extra skepticism, wouldn’t you say? (And also a fulsome measure of praise when they really accomplish something good.)
And conversely, I don’t think we should put an inordinate amount of effort into kicking underdogs, even if they may seem unworthy.
We shall continue to strive for a great balance of diverse voices and opinions, and the freewheeling argumentation you’ve come to expect here. And If I have anything to say about it, the Orange Juice Blog will retain its rowdy sense of humor, unpredictability, and irreverent civic-mindedness. And while striving for a variety of opinion, we will continue to skew pro-immigrant, pro-gay, and anti-racism. (Don’t worry, our crazy commenters certainly balance that off!)
Speaking of our commenters…
The New Orange Juice Proclaims:
A Day of Jubilee for Banned Commenters!
(Except for anyone who’s currently suing us, and the infamous Dan Avery.)
I will try to have two or three thought-provoking stories up for you all each morning – national, state and local. So don’t stop reading and commenting – you never know what you might miss! We’ll have more frequent contributions from Gabriel, Francisco, La Femme Wonkita, and Duane Roberts … and from the right, we’ll keep looking forward to the latest work of Bushala’s gang, Larry Gilbert, “Over But Not Out,” and the odd, quaint Winship couple. I’ll be bringing in a few more bloggers, from across the political spectrum. ALL ORANGE COUNTY.
We will continue to be the Blog of Choice for those discerning individuals who can’t abide the predictable partisan hackery of the County’s Red and Blue blogs.
I intend to keep Art’s SAUSD corruption thread going – possibly his greatest contribution to Santa Ana’s discourse.
We wish Art and Sean the best of luck in their future endeavors, and if they ever have second (or is it third or fourth?) thoughts about leaving the world of blogging, we’ll keep the welcome mat out for them. Hey, at least visit and comment guys! We’ll never ban you.
Onward and upward with Orange County’s #1 political blog!
Well I did not see Fiala or MQ above so the OJ will be more like reheated soufflé
I wasn’t listing our COMMENTERS, retard.
I know dullard!
You have been referring to “frequent contributions” any intelligent person would consider a comment as a contribution.
Next time use a higher level English to express yourself you name calling idiot.
Why would I, as editor and now publisher, be promising readers “contributions” from you and Michelle? I have no say in what you “contribute.”
Ding-a-ling.
“I have no say in what you ‘contribute.’”……. Hmmm
If you really believe it then you have nothing to contribute yourself.
ling-a-Ding.
We’re not “right.”
We’re fringe.
Oh that’s right – the Shiny Little Surrey with the FRINGE on the top!
Actually, it’s Fiala who’s Fringe.
To all of you CHEM-Trails debuggers. It is about 7:20 am and sky is filled fit them.
Go outside and look at the sky.
Power to the people…….!!!
Get Eddie Rose To write more also, he has some interesting ideas and does not realy fit into a specific political thought process
Keep up the good work O.J.! I heard today that the City of Santa Ana is going to privatize street sweeping services city wide beginning July 1st. I’m surprised we haven’t heard a peep out of SEIU. I mean, why have a Union if they don’t at least make public the issue of privatization? My experience with my union has been that as long as Union leadership is taken care of they don’t want to rock the boat. Can you imagine what would happen if the city tried to contract out any aspect of Fire or Police services? You would see “blue flues” and candlelight vigils on Councilmembers lawns! SEIU is and always has been a very week Union. What is happening in other O.C. cities?
Actually, I try to be moderate but that does put me at odds with liberal views much of the time. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being extreme right and 5 being neutral, I think of myself as about a 6 to 6.5. Then again maybe I need to try harder to reflect being in the 6 range.
Vern,
SInce Art isn’t around to expose the bipartisan wasteful spending of the Irvine City Council/Great Park Board or rake the self proclaimed “challenger of the right wing noise machine,” Irvine resident and Larry Agran apologist Dan Chmielewski over the coals anymore, can I pick up where he left off? Since I live in Irvine (a hell of a lot longer than the self professed Northwood resident who moved there in 1997… since 1984 here!), we need someone to help Moxley, Gustavo and the OC Weekly staff to take Boss Agran to task.
Because we know All Apologies Dan won’t.
I tend to reserve the criticisms for other city councils for the residents that actually live there. And the other thing is that he doesn’t know who I am and would be stupid to try to sue me.
I like it! We do need someone to go after the Irvine cabal, before I get accused of going overly easy on Democrats in the few places they hold sway in this county.
Guy Fawkes, right? Do you already have an account? Gimme a call later, you got my number…
Vern. While you have placed an Internet call for some new conservative bloggers, seeking out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is over the top.
How did you know I’m working on a Wikileaks post? Due tonight or tomorrow. I love this stuff!
There are plenty of bipartisan apologists in the blogosphere for Larry Agran and his Great Park of Weeds and Concrete cabal (oops I meant Great Park board). I don’t think you’d be mistaken for one of them.
I also have the fine privilege of living in the same congressional district as the leader of “The Resistance”: TARP supporter and 2008-2010 Congressional perfect attendance award winner Rep. John Campbell.
Hey Vern, are you going to miss Mansoor now that he is going to Sacramento? Wonder how he will do …
Huh. He’ll be the most useless member of the Assembly. A fish out of water. I wish I could be there to see him get ushered into his broom closet.
Oh well, he had an R by his name, and it was 2010.