![[This comes from Robert Cruickshank, Senior Campaign Manager for Democracy for America, who is one of my old sparring partners in the state and national blogosphere, who is now keeping an eye […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bribe-e1423851917772-115x115.jpg "Can the TPP Trade Agreement Be as Bad as It’s Supposed to Be? Leaked Text Suggests ‘Yes’ — and Worse!")
![Did you know that our frequent and acerbic commenter David Zenger, bane of OC’s kleptocrats, one of the two visionaries behind the Fullerton Rail District (with Tony Bushala, above) is also […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/zenger-above-brea-115x115.jpg "See the art of Zenger and others, this weekend in Newport!")
![. . . Wishful thinking there, and a pun, in the title. What are the chances really that, no matter how much sense was shared at last week’s desal townhall […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/peer-swan-115x115.jpg "Swan Song for Poseidon? Irvine’s Peer Swan unleashes a Blast of Truth at the Connecticut Hedge-Fund Pirates.")
![Our roving correspondent Cynthia Ward reports in from the California Republican Assembly Convention in Sacramento with a video posted by an operative code-named “Deborah Pauly” on The Facebook! Amidst the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Burly-thief-of-Moorlach-signs-115x115.jpg "Wagner’s Station Wagon of Shame! Pert-Breasted Man in Pink Shorts Steals Moorlach’s Signs!")
![. . . Dang, it’s the Weekend again – why don’t you lot discuss, with your characteristic decorum leavened by F-Bombs, whatever you like? Here are a couple-a hot topics […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/braveheart-battle-bf8631-115x115.jpg "A Luta Continua Weekend Open Thread – Victory on Net Neutrality, fight on against TPP!")
![. . . Look – another weekend rolls around, and hey we need an open thread for you all to discuss whatever and whomever with your characteristic decorum and f-bombs. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/vern-on-styrofoam-beach-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Beach Cleanup today, Vern Concert today, and Upcoming Stories!")
![. . . [in progress, keep your pants on] So, what the hell is all this about today? Sounds like a job for Wikipedia: St. Valentine’s Day began as a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cupid-2-115x115.jpg "St. Valentine’s Day Weekend Open Thread.")
![. . . Our pals in the Green Party of Orange County invite us to hear famed Marxist professor Richard Wolff this Thursday evening at Santa Ana’s fabled Delhi Center. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/wolff-115x115.jpg "Professor Richard Wolff comes to the Delhi Center Thursday to help us “Challenge Capitalism.”")
![. . . From our buddy, Fullerton activist and arts impresario Bax “Bax” Baxter: YOU ARE INVITED TO MAX BLOOM’S ON FRIDAY FEB 6TH FROM 6 TO 10 PM FOR […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/quatre-meillures-115x115.jpg "See OC’s best artists at Baxter’s new Fullerton Gallery Friday – with Vern on piano!")
![. . . First things first: Ricardo suggested a week or two ago that we should begin our next Weekend Open Thread with populist former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s inspirational […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pelerinage-a-cythere-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Robert Reich, Wilhelm Reich, the Island of Pleasure, and David Brooks’ Farts.")
![. . . Hat-tip to frequent OJ commenter Even Steven, who urges us to pass along this powerful short film from Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zero-Dark-Thirty) on how the worldwide […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/elephants-slaughtered-115x115.png "Help Save the Elephants and Fight African Terrorism at the Same Time!")
![. . . . The news comes to us from former OC Treasurer and Supervisor and Orange Juice friend John “The Moorlach” Moorlach, whom we agree with nearly half the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wagner-moorlach-e1588272265960-115x115.png "37th Senate District election date announced; and The Moorlach Jumps In Feet First!")
![. . . Just across the transom E-MAIL from Congresswoman Sanchez (who I’m betting is NOT gonna go up against Kamala for Senate.) We agree with Lo here: the Congressional […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Loretta-passionate-115x115.jpg "Loretta: House Republicans’ Latest Anti-Immigrant Demagoguery is “Sin Verguenza.”")
![. . . Kelly’s father Ron Thomas writes us: Tuesday, January 13th it will be one year since an Orange County jury decided that Ramos and Cicinelli were not guilty of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/kelly-thomas-in-hat-115x115.jpg "One Year Since Kelly Thomas Not-guilty Verdict: Gathering at Kelly’s Corner tomorrow.")
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